Old bikes never die...unless you let em

[Dnyce]

couple spy pics, ill let the photos do most of the talkin.....but i got 2 of my emblems for 40bucks(20 apiece)-straight from japan, n.o.s. kawi stuff

[Dnyce]

how the hell did that gsxr get in here?!

some1 is confused, wearing that shirt while riding that bike

[Dnyce]

ok fuckers-for some reason, these pics arent that clear....deal with it!

so, i gota pipe, fabbed a brake pedal, got lots of stuff from ebay, motion pro, fast by gast, dynatek, z1 enterprises, ape, pingle, flyncycle, and home depot. lets walk thru it

look where the stock brake pedal is with this pipe-comes down, runs along the bottom of the frame, tucks in nice.... but hangs lower than the whole bike by about 3-4 inches


now with the new pipe, its alil further to the right, and higher up, so you can lower the bike down real low. only prob is that now-its right below the brake pedal-no more rear brake. so i cut it off



after that, i took some cardboard, made some shapes, got something i liked, and then used some 1/4inchx1 1/2inch flat steel pieces, and some round steel tube, and came up with a clean solution



after that, i painted it black & put some nonslip grip tape style stuff on the pedal, just like i did the pegs...

moving on, i got the clip-ons...i had to remove the headlite to put em on, bcuz of how the stock headlite bracket was setup. i left the stock bars on for the pic-check out how waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay different the riding position becomes!


so now i got these lame half circle spaces on the triple tree where the stock bars were, the tach and speedo now appear to stick up way high in reference to the bars


so what to do...........hmmmmmmmmm.......who needs a tach and speedo? right? see ya!


still got the half moon things, they're cast into the top triple tree. more on that ltr....since i got no tach, that means no red mark on the tach to tell me where to shift lol and kinda hard to launch at a consistent rpm.

so dynatek to the rescue! gotta shift lite, shift minder, and a 2 step rev limiter. i already had a dyna ignition, and coils. gd stuff these guys, been using it years.

works like this= the 2 step is connected to the clutch switch, coils, power, ground. shift minder connects to the coils, power and ground. shift lite connects to the minder.

shift lite is obvious, so i'll explain the 2step. it has a low side (3k rpm-10.5k rpm) and a hi side (10rpm-13.8k rpm) adjust the low side to the rpm u wana launch at, and the hi side is your max rev limiter. when u pull the clutch in and rev it, the rpm will stay +/-50rpm to whatever u set the low side at. let the clutch out, and it switches to the hi side limiter, so you dont blow it up if you miss a shift or somethin. theres your basic lesson in 2step operation, now back to the pics. heres the 2step, shift minder/lite, and new fast flo petcock



to do this, i had to figure out which wires to use because i also have a airshifter. airshifter kills the power to the coils when u shift, so i cant hook up some of the wires to the coils because the power to the shift minder and 2step can never be cut, otherwise the system gets "lost". im using a old shift lite as a test light, cuz i cant find my other actual one. had to take the coils off to get to the terminals too.




it went quick once i figured out what wires to use. velcro and a zip tie hold the 2step.

done-sorta


now i got to make a dashboard. from scratch. sounds easy. actually was easy. BUT TOOK FUCKING 5 HRS FROM START 2 FINISH! including lunch tho.

i wish i had more patience for the pics, but once i get on a roll, i 4get the camera, and im just workin, the idea maker(my brain) is goin like 100mph, and i forget to take pics. so anyway, i started with this as my area of work.


then i took a plastic "for sale", bolted it to the lil half moon things where the bars were. then i started cutting and shaping, tryin stuff, flying blind, but with a destination in mind. and thats how the for sale sign ended up like this.


from there i was content enough with the idea to start workin in metal-so i traced it to a piece of 26 guage sheetmetal, and cut it out. this is about where i hit that gd idea stride, and forgot the camera.

but basically i measured, drilled the holes to mount it, mounted it, marked holes and mounting points, went back to the drill press, drilled some more, remounted, marked, drilled, etc etc. got it all mounted nice, then went back and shaped it, made it look pretty, and painted it. final product took awhile, but it was a 1 shot deal. i didnt fuck up once, and i think it looks clean.


in between all this, i got rid of the old throttle, and with it went the run/kill switch, starter button, and the cables needed to be shorter bcuz of the clip-ons. so i mounted a new slim killswitch from fbg, throttle tube from motion pro and cables from z1 enterprises. so, as promised, 97% done.

i got some new/dif style headlite brackets in saturday, so those will go on alil later today, and i need to fab up the rear mount for the pipe. i made 1 already, but i was being a tard and mounted it to the swingarm cuz there was a tab there for it already. 20mins later i realized the swingarm pivots, and that wouldnt work. only took 10mins, so im not mad, was just a "duh" moment. laughed and moved on. heres the new tank emblem i mentioned earlier, goes with the color way better than the stock white emblem.


and a few other pics, give u an idea of the paint, the dumb bracket i made, and where the headlite mite sit.

[Dnyce]

and as witness by the above spy pics, i bought a gsxr 750. got a good deal, has led flushmounts, frame sliders, yosh pipe, clean title. its not the triumph i wanted but its fun. i'm gonna keep it 4 a month, and then decide to sell it or keep it. i got on a triumph at the bike show i went to 2day, and that thing felt sooooo badass...i still want one, but im gonna wait til winter and try and get a gd deal on a 07 or 08 model when the 09's come out.

if i keep the gsxr, i gota paint it. 1st day i had it, i saw 3 with same body style, 1 was even same color. i hate that.

some1 give me $21,000 for all three lol

triple threat, you know you want it

[Dnyce]

sunday morning i got my headlite brackets, and of course theydidnt fit how i liked, so i cut em up and hit em with the grinder til i was happy. im now at 99% complete.....ignition cover is off because i 4got to put it on 4 the pics. oops. iwana polish all that dull aluminum, and paint the forks/fender maybe.

[Dnyce]

been busy as fuck, havent done much, just been riding. got my woodcraft sliders today, went to put em on, and the fucking fairing needs to be cut even more than it was cut for the previous sliders.

busy as fuck=moved, so dremel is mia. now i got one slider for a day. other side went on smooth. woodcraft has gd shit