what would you do to this bike...

ok so i think a truck horns going above the yamaha badge, and the speedos getting a coupkle tags on its mount so i can bolt it between the lights... ive been told to leave it alone but im afraid i cant.... how would you modify the front end of this bike?

 

I love the three headlights. And I would prob stick the horn on the frame right behind the forks. as for other mods, I might do something like this: http://xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=1519.html

 

Personally i would do whatever to the bike , i'd be more worried about who told you to leave it alone?

 

ouch! remember that were in two dimensions here...he had a better take on the bike, heres from a better angle

 

and heres a before and after...

viper...that bike looks sweet....doin something similar with the rear end, but! i need to keep the back half the seat for my SO... we'll see

 

Looky good , and i can't help it but it looks like someone ignored someone anyway

 

Thanx! I like your color matched wheels and engine. You can take off the rear fender, taillight and grab bar. then mount a tailight under the back of the seat so its hidden from the side. That was how I had it setup before I made the new seat.

 

I'd clean-off the aluminum surrounds on those side covers -- polish the aluminum to mirror finish and clear-coat them. I'd un-paint all the engine and case covers and pretty much do the same for them. Pin-stripe the edges of the fenders and get some 'chrome' door-edge strips and add some bling to the bottom edge of the tank. Then, I'd hide a few purple led's here and there ... just for some additional detail-pimping. Then, I'd ride it all summer until it needed new tires!

 

:lol: hoonz... im guessing that youre speaking of the saturn in the background? well after i got it running correctly....my priorities went elsewhere :lol: bikes more iomportant in the summer.... in the winter when that hole fills up with road sluch and ice...then ill change it ...
definitely wanna take the paint off that engine...winter project... like the suggestions viper we'll see when i can get anything done!

 

oh ya...thanks guys!!!

mike

 

I adopted a guys cast-off Midnight Max. The only thing he didn't rattle-can black was the headlight glass. I started de-blacking that baby one night, 2 winters ago, and just kept right on going until I had the whole bike back to aluminum and chrome. (The powger coat on the exhaust silencers needed some persuasion ... heavy buffing with diamond buffing compound ... but, I evvenatually got to the hidden beauty beneath the black. Now, she a glimmering custom. I got everything that was aluminum polished-up nice and the nikes all painted-out pretty. I'm just waiting for the tank to really harden-up with the clear-coat so I can buff-out the tank and take it to the hamburger stand. Who knows ... I might bet in the "full-pimp" mode and add some hidden LED's, here annd there, to give her a nice after-dark glow. Trouble with the LED's, though, they're like Christmas lights. Once you start you get like Chevy Chase, putting them everywhare but inside the gas tank!

 

Update: (VERY late)

new pics-

 

^^^^ hahaha thats awesome!

 

That's a mean looking bike LOL Kinda Jim Henson monsterish Love it.

 

LMAO!!!

 

Thanks guys! Now, should I leave it license plate aluminum... Or cut it out of steel and chrome it? Ultimately the bike will be matte black/gloss black frame and wheels.

 

thats a super sweet front end.

 

Thanks! Still... to chrome? Or not to chrome?

 

Sweet the bike has some attitude now .

 

I think the eyebrows need a little work.... Maybe modded to raise and lower as you apply the breaks! lol

 

I'd lower the headlights to the lower triple tree and tuck the speedo down behind them, so you can still see them of course...wait...That's what I did.

http://www.xjbikes.com/coppermine/displ ... ize=1.html

 

:? How can that be comfy? Ask out laying on your codpiece while face-planted in your tank? Maybe I'm just too short... Damn dried up gene pool...

 

Are you just going to matte black the frame and the wheels? I hope so. I understand not liking the paint you've got on there (I personally think it looks great, at least from the photos), but I wouldn't take something with personality like that and replace it with the very generic style of black on black on black on black...

Since you asked--I'd leave the paint job (at least the tank, etc.) and slap chrome on wherever seems convenient. Chrome, as part of an overall design with color, etc. looks great. I think what people don't like about chrome is that some people put chrome on chrome on chrome on chrome.

 

i vote no to chrome!

 

Amazingly it is. I put 180 miles on last week with no ill effects except for the usual sore backside.

 

I like the raising lowering eyeballs mod suggested! I can make it so one raises, or both are raised, but it takes a wrench. I appreciate the sentiment on the paint. When i first got the bike my cuz said... I love it... I love it!... uh ...wow... 8O its REEEEEEEALLY purple huh? ... You might be right about black on black but since it has a face, I'm not too concerned with people thinkin its generic... the chrome or brushed I'm askin bout is on the face... shall I leave it aluminum... or cut it from steel and chrome it?

Got one for aluminum

 

SecaSuca... I like it!! on yours tho ... I think the face is here to stay

 

Yes!! Call it the Mean Muggin' Machine and ride it doing wheelies while someone plays the music from Mad Max (preferably the Thunderdome music)... seriously though that's awesome shit. Kinda reminds me of Johnny #5's evil twin.

 

That's the fun of customizing. You make it your own. Hopefully mine isn't too out of order that it can't be sold when I am done! :lol:

 

Thanks Heathen! I'm working on my spiky jacket now! Seca... I'd sport it! I decided to keep all my controls which on my maxim means no drag bars.. I tried and broke my choke lever...

 

Anytime...listen I took a bolt that was only threaded about an inch - inch and a half at the base and the rest of the bolt was smooth (I think it's like 3 - 3.5" overall). Put it through the choke cable bracket and bolted that bad boy in with a lock washer and nut. Works like an incognito choke lever, and gets rid of that stupid thumb adjustment for the choke. Just a thought.

 

pics? or a drawing?

 

Yeah I'll post a pic later today.

 

I'm going to school for PC Science / Robotic Engineering... I saw this site in one of our class sessions and couldn't stop laugh'n think'n about your bike...


And even tho pygmy_goat hates Radio Shack... I'm pretty sure that you can get everything you need there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoEkXngbcfE


http://www.pyroelectro.com/tutorials/robotic_eyebrows/

 

Here ye go laddy!



Also I lied...there are a few more washers and another nut added in...enjoy!

 

That's just wrong

 

Heathen, I might do that! I still have my drag bars . Currently my bars are off a 4-wheeler and work well. They also are pretty close to how the bars were, so they make the wonky angles of the brake fluid reservoir/mirrors work!

Bomonghani, Wow... currently above my scope! :? Maybe a simpler manually switched servo? ... When ya start talking $100 microcontrollers I'm not only lost, my wallet groans 8O.... Now if your class cared to have a "project", and it involved Barney... I'm just sayin Glad i made your day!