The Ballistic Cruze Mule...da Bob

Forgot to post up a pic with the Katana rear on it. I bought a hub and disks off a fellow member here on DTT, HD narrow glide hub for dual disks, so I may still do a spoke front setup and use the stock KZ mag rear. At least I have enough pieces to do it either way now....and I'll find a home for the unused bits on the next project.

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My Katana rear caliper and mount showed up, needed it as the CBR unit was for a smaller disk. Garth is machining my wheel spacers right now, going to swap over to chain drive now as the Katana hub will take way too much machine work to swap the belt drive cog over. Thats it for updates on the BCM mod wise for a few months, surgery on the 21st I'll update parts purchases and possibly send a few things out for powder coating etc. I'm awaiting the machined bits from Swagger and I'll post the pic's up as soon as they arrive....I'm excited to see what he came up with 8)

Ordered one of the Koso gauges today as well. Bitchin little unit, whatcha guy's think ?

Man... this is something else. Very cool indeed.

Surgery!!??!?? What did I miss? Whatever it is I hope you're good soon man.

I'm still mentally thrashing about with these pieces, I've come up with a few that would be great on a different bike but this needs....something.....standby..

Ok one more here.....
Can you do me a favor? First (and you can answer in PM if you wanna keep it under wraps) what are your plans for the top of the triple and the front of the bottom one? Also, can you snap me some pics of the front end, head one, at an angle form the front/sides and then the top clamp.

How creative can I get here?

Wicked, I'll run down to the shop and snap some pics for you Swag.

I was thinking of mounting the Koso gauge just ahead of the top tripple on a slight angle. If we could incorporate the gauge mount into the headlight bracket somehow that would be REALLY cool. You have totall design control, I'm seriously stoked to see what you come up with.

Surgery is to put my shoulder back together....anchors, sutures, stapples, removing some bone....shortening a couple ligaments. 2 tears in the labrum and they are moving a nerve bundle in my elbow, its the Ulner nerve, all kinds of good stuff LOL. My Doc said NO bikes this season, but I'm stubborn so I'll be back riding by Septembre. Hope to be able to get back to work by then too, but the Doc already told me " You need to start looking at alternative carears "

glad people can decipher my shitty typing.....jeez!

Hang in there mate! I'll have something conceptual I can show you soon methinks....

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Wicked, I'll run down to the shop and snap some pics for you Swag.

I was thinking of mounting the Koso gauge just ahead of the top tripple on a slight angle. If we could incorporate the gauge mount into the headlight bracket somehow that would be REALLY cool. You have totall design control, I'm seriously stoked to see what you come up with.

Surgery is to put my shoulder back together....anchors, sutures, stapples, removing some bone....shortening a couple ligaments. 2 tears in the labrum and they are moving a nerve bundle in my elbow, its the Ulner nerve, all kinds of good stuff LOL. My Doc said NO bikes this season, but I'm stubborn so I'll be back riding by Septembre. Hope to be able to get back to work by then too, but the Doc already told me " You need to start looking at alternative carears "

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Bike is looking great. sorry to hear about the shoulder. That doesn't sound like much fun. Hope you heal quick!

Thanks Troy, I should heal up alot quicker than originaly thought. Surgery went better than expected, no anchors to hold the labrum, the tears were small enough that they could debride them ( half moon cuts to remove the tears...2 of them ) and they removed the bursa aswell as repaired the ligaments. BONUS was they didnt move the ulner nerve, but it may need to be done at some point. Surgeon found excessive tissue pushing on the artery and nerve bundle and after removing it this should stop the tingling fingers. I'm stoked, now I can get back to soccer, and hiking etc with my kids this summer....and maybe get back at the bike 8)

Ran into a bit of an issue, I'm allergic to the bandages they used = big nasty silver dollar sized blisters that popped under the dressings. They cleaned them up on wednesday at the hospital, heading up again today to have them redress it this mornning. eeeeeeewwwwwww, not pleasant LOL, but the incisions themselves looked great ;D

Glad to hear everything's going well. Shoulder surgery can be a real pain.

What is it in the bandages that you're allergic to? My wife is allergic to adhesives (band-aids, duct tape, etc) and her Mom is allergic to latex.

The breathable tape they used to put the heavey pad on with caused lots of little rash type blisters all over, the steri strips caused the BIG nasty stuff under the heavy pad dressing. Not sure what it is I'm allergic to but it must be the adhesive ???

Do what a specialist would do: cut a little cube of tape and put it on your forearm or something. Leave it there for a little while and see if it becomes a rash. If you're allergic to adhesives, get used to taking the stuff that only sticks to itself anytime you go to the doctor.