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That looks good.
It just needs solid struts instead of those rear shocks and it would be ok.
Looks like some idiot forgot to powder coat the front wheel spacer too. What a clown!
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That looks good.
It just needs solid struts instead of those rear shocks and it would be ok.
Looks like some idiot forgot to powder coat the front wheel spacer too. What a clown!
will tell him 
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That looks good.
It just needs solid struts instead of those rear shocks and it would be ok.
"SOLID STRUTS"?!!!!
BITE your tongue, Ade! MAYBE the guy actually wants to RIDE the bike when he's done blacking out the front, and NOT just attempt to "look cool" on it after he's done!
NOPE! I say INSTEAD of those dumb freakin'(in both looks AND handling degradating) struts, he SHOULD just bolt on a set of those VERY cool lookin' Hagon enclosed and black powdercoated SHOCKS on that puppy!!!
(..."struts"...SHEESH!!!...what were ya thinkin' here, ol' buddy?????!!!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"SOLID STRUTS"?!!!!
BITE your tongue, Ade! MAYBE the guy actually wants to RIDE the bike when he's done blacking out the front, and NOT just attempt to "look cool" on it after he done!
You assume it's only a blacked out front ...
I ran with solid struts on mine for quite some time and only put shockers back on when Wendy started riding pillion.
You've met me, I must be the least 'cool' bloke you know.
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NOPE! I say INSTEAD of those dumb freakin'(in both looks AND handling degradating) struts, he SHOULD just bolt on a set of those VERY cool lookin' Hagon enclosed and black powdercoated SHOCKS on that puppy!!!
How do we know that isn't the intended final finish .... ?
Is it Grzegorz, do you know? 
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"SOLID STRUTS"?!!!!
BITE your tongue, Ade! MAYBE the guy actually wants to RIDE the bike when he's done blacking out the front, and NOT just attempt to "look cool" on it after he done!
You assume it's only a blacked out front ...
I ran with solid struts on mine for quite some time and only put shockers back on when Wendy started riding pillion.
You've met me, I must be the least 'cool' bloke you know.
Nope Ade! You're not even CLOSE to bein' the "least cool" bloke I know! 
But, turnin' a perfectedly good swingarm rear suspension into some kinda "makeshift" hardtail IS decidely "un-cool"...well, once again at least in MY book anyway! I've always felt the ONLY way to have a hardtail IS to have a full hardtail frame, 'cause if ya don't it almost always will look "makeshift".
(...though I'm certainly glad to learn your thoughts concerning the comfort of your Better Half would eventually override your first inclinations here...and I'll bet your own lower back appreciates it too...if not now, then in about 10 years from now, anyway!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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well, once again at least in MY book anyway!
That must be one hell of a bloody big book you've got mate
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Now Ade, after all these years, YOU should know "the book" with all my opinions is ENORMOUS....right?!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dwight's Book of Opinions : Vol 1 during it's world tour - with Chinese translation page. Here we see it on a particularly busy day. 
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 Good one, Ade! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dwight's Book of Opinions : Vol 1 during it's world tour - with Chinese translation page.
Here we see it on a particularly busy day.
Volume one? BIG DEAL!  (Though not bad for a start)
Where are all the other volumes?
And you may see me tonight
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Bathe the covers and black ceramic coat everything including the headers and pipes. That bike is looking damn sexy already!
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why this thread was moved? its a member bike...just not mine  
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Bathe the covers and black ceramic coat everything including the headers and pipes.
That WOULD look good 
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I like the look with a bit of chrome remaining (as in the last 2 pics) but the gold chain has got to go. Gold chains only ever looked good on 70s porn stars.
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I like the look with a bit of chrome remaining (as in the last 2 pics) but the gold chain has got to go. Gold chains only ever looked good on 70s porn stars.
 I shouldn't clean it...was black
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Is that the standard frame? I didn't realize it was square. 
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Is that the standard frame? I didn't realize it was square.
just the backbone is
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what bars are those? And those are the rivco risers?
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Standard America (2003) bars. Anonymous Internet crap risers which are now in the bin (thread stripped while tightening BY HAND!!!!) Stock America risers back on for the time being. New longer front brake line and clutch cable coming soon to suit the new 2012 / 2013 Speedmaster risers which are sitting waiting to go on. MUCH taller and look
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those 2012 SM risers what are the height and pullback on those do you know?
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Should do, I bought some! Pull back is approx 1" Rise (to centre of bars) is approx 5 1/2"
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Looks really nice, nice job!
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Should do, I bought some!
Pull back is approx 1"
Rise (to centre of bars) is approx 5 1/2"
Darn not enought, to bad, they look nice.
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edm, the risers look like my rivco ones. they move the bars back 2-1/2" and up 3" (from the original risers). I'm still off work from the wreck (july 25th) lost most of the use of my right hand and 30% movement of right arm. Des.
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Sorry, the risers on that last pic are off the internet. Not Rivco ones.
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Hagon enclosed and black powdercoated SHOCKS on that puppy!!!
I was thinking exactly the same thing
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Already planned waaaaaay before Dwight mentioned it. What's that they say about great minds ...
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