Virago turned crotch rocket
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MJPriceisright
Coast to Coast
is that a custom made rear brake shaft on that spline? or did you just modify the stock one and place it upright to mount the linkage to it?
MJPriceisright
Coast to Coast
bradj said:
yeah watch what you say.. the Yamaha virago is the best motorcycle ever made, hands down.. leaking oil, pencil thick front forks, and a cool 1000 lbs, you just cant beat that.
Zoid365
New Member
I appreciate the concern and opinion on the front tire conversion. But with all due respect I built the bike for me. I like the way it handles. Feels stable. I didn't build it to race. Just to look nice and cruse. I would love to someday do an r1 front end. But for this summer this is what I got.
Modified original brake. I don't have fancy enough tools to do that.
Modified original brake. I don't have fancy enough tools to do that.
MJPriceisright
Coast to Coast
crazypj said:I don't see anything breaking while your riding, you've done less radical frme work than many people.
I would fit a fork brace though , as Rich Ard pointed out,your trying to hold a boulder with a pencil
haha yeah like me cutting my frame with a sawsall (spelling?) na wouldn't say anything is gonna break, but with the overall length of the stock front end, a fork brace should be on the list of things to do. they are pretty heavy bikes, from the factory of course, but looks like you trimmed some fat so its probably not too bad. im also running a rear to front conversion, although I kept the stock from drum, surprisingly it brakes pretty well, and is nice and clean up front.
Re: Re: Virago turned crotch rocket
Ha. All credit to MJ on that one.
This is a case where I figured I'd leave the fork brace thing alone - ain't goingter be doing any hard cornering with the rear to front wheel conversion.
I considered doing likewise on mine until I got a chance to throw it around some curves - now I'm just holding out for a front end swap
Nothing but flat straight roads in SW MI anyway :
crazypj said:I don't see anything breaking while your riding, you've done less radical frme work than many people.
I would fit a fork brace though , as Rich Ard pointed out,your trying to hold a boulder with a pencil
Ha. All credit to MJ on that one.
This is a case where I figured I'd leave the fork brace thing alone - ain't goingter be doing any hard cornering with the rear to front wheel conversion.
I considered doing likewise on mine until I got a chance to throw it around some curves - now I'm just holding out for a front end swap
Nothing but flat straight roads in SW MI anyway :
mark13018
"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice
(sorry guys). Not a huge fan of yammys or the virago but DAMN you made that look good... I say just do what YOU want with the bike... (ME) yeah, I'm trying to gain a few horsepower and lose a few pounds but if I have to take the functionality of the bike into consideration then forget about it. I might as well leave it stock... If I have to sacrifice getting chain oil on my pants to ditch the chain guard, I'm pitching it. If I have to sacrifice braking ability because I want to keep my front drum, I'm keeping it. If I want to put pink and purple tassels from my bar end because I like it, then I'll do it... Sometimes you do sacrifice performance, handling, reliability, etc. to get it the way you want it and that is the point of building a custom bike yourself, no? You build it for you.. It doesn't matter what you do to it anyways, there is always going to be that person or group of people that will tell you that you should have had those pink and purple bar end tassels on there.
