clutch and master are from a CBR600 and the levers are adjustable pazzo knock offs from china.

Just when you think that you've seen all types of builds, a guy comes out of the weeds with new, fresh, out of the "box of norms" thinking that puts most others to shame. Very, very nice work but I congratulate you more on the innovative application of parts that most here, by evidence of the above posts, have never seen before!

I tend to be mostly a purist...."make it stock, make it correct" and make an any mods unseen to the eye.....but I do like a well built, thought through machine.....GF should be very happy!!

jeff

You got that right!! I've been riding for 10 years and a deer almost killed me Saturday night. Sounds like she's got a good teacher. As lng as sheknows her surroundings shell be fine. Problems gonna be when she wants it painted hot pink and you won't be able to ride it anymore

Appreciate the comments. Always nice to have your work appreciated by others. She actually chose the color and I agreed to to it. hahahaha. Seat guy did an awful job and contrary to my wishes he glued the foam to the pan so I am now having to rip it all off and try to get the glue off without killing the paint work. Covered the entire seat in ostrich, cover all the paint work and I don't know if my desires were lost in translation but I'm going a different route now. Ordered some peel and stick foam that many cafe racers use and give it a go with a layer of gel over the top and hope that is enough to keep her rump comfortable since she doesn't have much cushion. I've decided if you want it done right you gotta do it yourself! Hopefully more pics to come soon.

On a mechanical note the mufflers showed up and they quiet the exhaust more than I thought on first glance so I am happy with that.

Also tested the battery voltage with the bike running at idle and the voltage slowly drops and then when I rev. it up the volts comes back to 14.34 to charge the battery back up. Any ideas on why it won't charge or hold voltage at idle?
Waiting for the LED taillight/brake light/turn signal strip to show up but when the bike is running and I turn on the signal the front bar end LED lights up but doesn't flash. I'm guess it is a draw thing. I have a resistor I can put in so I guess I'll try that and see if I can get the signal flasher to work.

Adds the resistor. Thatswhat I had to do to get my leds to work

These bikes only charge when above 2000 rpms. So it sounds like its working like it should.

Some updated pics with the side plates and license plate mount. New padding. Waiting on the tail light still.

Put Led lights in back. Changed out relay to auto-style capable of running LED lights. just simple rewire and works like a champ. Only thing lost is auto cancel feature. Didn't hurt me none.

So I went out to start it and after removing the side stand switch and hooking them together and in neutral it starts up and runs just fine, but the moment I put it in first or second it dies. Ugg.

Mechanics before cosmetics

So I pulled the side stand relay from the plug and it now will shift into gear but will still only start when in neutral, which is pathetic. So anyone know how to bypass the whole mess so it starts whenever? And please don't go on about how yamaha did this crap for a safety reason because I don't care. I've been riding my motard for years that starts in any gear, anytime, and doesn't care if the kickstand is down or not, and I've never had a problem. Use your brain and put the kickstand up and pull in the clutch before you hit the start button. No a difficult thing to learn.

I love this... looks great.

So I got the rear tail light in and all wired up. For those converting all the blinkers over to LED here is what I did.....
Bought a Tridon Flasher Part # EL13 from Pep Boys
Clipped the wires off the stock flasher which is located under the tank up near the front, just under the two coil packs. I put new spade connectors on since I was unable to get the original spades out of the original plastic piece to switch them around. Hook up the all brown wire to the pole on the new flasher that has an X next to it. Then hook up the yellow with green strip wire to the pole that has a P next to it. Finally hook up the brown wire with a white stripe to the pole that has an I next to it. I know a lot of people were able to get the original spades out of the plastic piece and switch two of the wires around and then it literally plugs into the flasher but for the life of me I couldn't after fiddling with it for an hour. Now mind you my little LED turn signals still do not pull enough resistance to make this flasher work. If you are running larger LED turn signals then maybe this mod is enough so test it before you go any further. For the rest of us you'll need to add a resistor in. I bought these off ebay for $5. They are 50 watt 6 ohm resistors. One of the wires will go to the positive side of your turn signal and the other wire will go to the turn signal ground wire. You only need to order two of them, one for each side and it doesn't matter if you hook them to the front turn signals or the back turn signals. Very simple really and while I am running a simplified wiring harness and no longer have the self canceling feature it never worked on the bike when it was stock and it really doesn't bother me. Hope this helps solve any confusion and if anyone needs further explanation let me know.

Forgot the pics!

Running Light/Brake light


Right turn signal.


Left turn signal.


Also added a left hand bar end mirror for legality sakes.
Still need to round off the edges of the foam on the seat and fix the shift linkage and find where ever that dumb neutral safety switch is and dispense with it.

Finally found the sneaky little neutral safety wire hiding under the frame rail and a loom so now the bike starts in any gear rather than just neutral. Also got the foam shaved and headed down to the fabric store and picked out some black ostrich to make a cover from. Still need to tidy up some wiring on the bars and rebleed the brakes for a firmer feel as right now they are pretty spongy.