thanks for all the compliments guys, yours are the opinions I wanted to hear. The safety wire is kind of a theme throughout the bike- functional and decorative, the baffles in my custom pipes are held in with wingnuts that are safetied, as is my actual liscence plate. The filters are installed with safety wire just because I dont ever want to lose one, even though they stay on pretty well.
The back plate was originally 16ga steel, but then I did a search on this forum and found the topic about the cracking straps on brokenfixed's so I beefed it up and put 2 1/8" thick straps behind the 16ga plate. It's beefy but unoticable once it is installed and will probably hold forever!
I am now debating painting all my tin flat black. But it's a hard decision seeings as how I love the stylish stock paint job. Any opinions?
