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[ewertkyle]

heres a coulple of pics of my naked front end, just hacked off the bar mounted mirrors and modified them and some clamps to make them work as bar end mirrors. also had the tripples and bars painted, and powdercoated the gas cap, front and rear foot pegs. I also made brackets for led turn and cut off the bottom of my windshield to make a "cover" to clean it all up. The parts were painted by my friend at an autobody shop and powdercoating was done locally (he only charged me $20!) let me know what you think good or bad! sorry for the crappy cell phone quality pics

before winter

 

[Bora]

wow... loved the optics, thats some bad a** looking bike.

Do you have any protection for the gauges?

 

[johnnyontherocks]

IMO you need to ditch those crab eye blinkers and get something a little slimmer

 

[Dustin]

Looks nice. How durable are those projectors supposed to be? Do they stand up to rocks and dust and rain and what not?

 

[FZ1riderNY]

IMO you need to ditch those crab eye blinkers and get something a little slimmer

I think that last photo was "pre-winter". He has some slimmer ones in the first shot. :tup:

I love what you did with the mirrors. Did you swap out your head bearings for some "tapered" ones while you had it apart??

 

[ewertkyle]

Projectors arw housed in aluminum landscaping lights with lexan lenses which is very durable.

 

[ewertkyle]

Yes the last photo is before winter with stock blinkers, and levers and before paint, modifindg mirrors and so forth, and i didn't change out the bearings, is there problems with the stock ones?

 

[FZ1inTX]

Looks lean and mean. Well done! Can you get a shot of what those lights look like at night from your rider point of view?

There's no issue with the stock blinkers other than they did not "fit" the look... the aftermarket ones in the first photo look great though!

 

[FZ1riderNY]

Yes the last photo is before winter with stock blinkers, and levers and before paint, modifindg mirrors and so forth, and i didn't change out the bearings, is there problems with the stock ones?

Oh, certainly not, but guys usually swap out for the "tapered" set when they have the head apart. No need though. The stockers are just fine.

 

[ewertkyle]

Thanks for input! It wont be untill spring when i can get a picture of the beam pattern because the battert is out and on the tender until warmer weather but i would say that the hids are a little brighter although the stock lights seemed to be a little better in tight turns. Ill post a pic as soon as i get a chance.

 

[ewertkyle]

Oh and Bora the gauges have the "meter cover" the same as the N-version

 

[johnnyontherocks]

Yep first photo looks great, thanks for pointing it out Billy. I swear sometimes I cant find a dancer in a strip club.

 

[Blanchy]

Looks real mean, love it!

 

[stretched06]

Looks much better. great job

 

[CrazyBiker]

How about these lights?

 

[Bora]

Whats that on the passenger seat ?
an ipad case ?

 

[ewertkyle]

I have seen that bike before and I really do like those headlights, I really just wanted to do something different with my bike and I got a lot of satisfaction from creating my own lights and brackets.

 

[CrazyBiker]

Whats that on the passenger seat ?
an ipad case ?

It is Cycleguys fastpack

 

[Bora]

It is Cycleguys fastpack

Cool, that's going on my list right now...

 

[bewarethefuzz]

Looks good. What's next?