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Got the new tires on and the rear is at least an inch taller than the nobby. Now I have a bigger clearance problem and a height issue. I bought a 100/90 19 and a 120/90 18, which I read was the metric counterpart to the original, but the bike leans over a long ways on the side stand. To solve...

Here is the first "completion" of the bike and the first day I had it out. It looked pretty good sitting under the street light. Another thing I didn't get a picture of was the fork brace I built, you can see it a bit in the second picture. Now I have to rebuild it because the new tire is too...

Here is probably one of my favorite things on this bike, the tailight. They are strip of LEDs that can be cut every 1/2 inch then slid into a D shaped tube and capped off. The centers are wired as running/brake lights then the ends of each unit are 1 section, 1/2 inch, blinkers. They are...

Seat is pretty simple. I had a chunk of this foam that I could cut and shape for the rough shape. Then I had a local shop finish it. They covered my foam with a lighter foam so it feels a bit softer then made a cover.

Coming down to the wire now. There was only one real dent in the tank so I didn't have much body work to do. Then I got to spray color for the first time. 2 coats of Chevy stealth grey, 3 coats of clear then a scuff and buff it turned out pretty nice. The badges and stuff like the gas cap, upper...

Exhaust pics

Next project was the exhaust. I like the 4 into 2 but the new systems are all 4 into 1. Stock mufflers are banged up and rusty so here is what I did. Dime City has some slip on that look like the stockers but stock exhaust is 1 piece. I cut the mufflers off where the headpipe starts to bell out...

Haha...no. I bought it in a small town where the owner planned on riding on dirt roads. They were almost brand new so I've been doing burn outs to enjoy them.

Here are some reassembly pics. You can see the basic look of the bike. Even got the legalities of the license plate light in place.

Thanks xb. I'll try that when I get the new shocks. I wanted to change them anyways because the stockers don't look very good. Expected delivery isn't until next week :'(

Thought I would comment on the front master cylinder since it's shown off in that last picture. The original was HUGE and full of gunk, so I started looking for a replacement. I heard of guys using one off of a yamaha raptor so I bought this off eBay for $20. It's much smaller and runs 2 small...

On to what I've already done... that looks like the last of the fab work. Next was cleaning up welds and off to the powdercoater for some satin black. I also took apart the forks, cleaned and resealed them and painted the lowers.

Unfortunately I found out I have tapped my pan and mud guard with the rear tire :'( , I've hit some big dips at speed and it hasn't hit very hard. Good news is my new rear tire is wider but not really taller. Plan is to get some longer shocks to give some more clearance. I know this will alter...

You got me worried now xb. I did everything with the dirt tires that came on the bike. I've been riding with no issues but I just bought new street tires and they are a bit bigger. I have the new front tire on but haven't got the rear on yet, I'll know if I have a massive problem by this...

I did end up shortening the mud guard because it was too close to the swing arm. When I cycled the suspension without the shocks it would hit, so I took about 2 inches off. I've been riding the bike since January with no clearance issues

Shoot for a 2 for 1 here. I wanted a mud guard since this bike will be "ridden not hidden". I came up with this design and used the same plastic as my seat pan. If you zoom in on pic 2 you can see the rod for the front seat mount that the Z hooks to and the bracket with the holes for the rear...

On to the seat and as usual I don't have as many pics as I'd like. The pan is some "HDPE" plastic I got at Grainger's. The front bolts go through to a Z shaped piece of metal I bent in a break. The back 2 bolts go through the pan and go into a bracket welded to the frame and bolt with wing nuts...

Found some more pics to show how the cowl works. Pic 1 shows the lip in front of the battery, the bottom piece of the cowl slides under that to hold the front down. Then there is a bolt that goes through the hole behind the battery to hold the back down. Pic 2 shows the J-track and how the seat...

Thanks I'm pretty proud of how it turned out. Wait until you see the finished tail, I think it's pretty cool.

I see I am sooo bad at taking picures to document progress. These are what I have for the making of the cowl. I used the bike as a mold for the bottom of the cowl. Then cut it out to go over the battery, this isn't the final cut. There were some other mods to let the wires in that I didn't get...