"MountainCommand" (MountainCommand)
11/12/2014 at 12:52 • Filed to: None
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"MountainCommand" (MountainCommand)
11/12/2014 at 12:52 • Filed to: None | 4
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you put your fairings back on after a season of naked riding. I have forgotten how much better it looks, and i'm second guessing why i took them off in the first place....
the smart viewer will soon notice my lack of a particular bolt just behind the indicator... That is the fault of yours truly... Being the noob i was a couple months ago, i tried to hook my helmet on to the hand bar. I got it on, but upon taking it off i broke off a rather large piece of my inner fairing... A piece that will set me back about 100 bucks -__-
Pro tip: Dont put your helmet on your handle bars.
Meatcoma
> MountainCommand
11/12/2014 at 13:07 |
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Good looking bike, even for it's age.
what's the tape on the tank for?
ACESandEIGHTS
> MountainCommand
11/12/2014 at 13:37 |
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FZRs rule. Love those things. I think you should probably question taking fairing off of a bike that was designed to use it. Popping the plastic off an old sport bike doesn't make it a cafe racer.
BTW, I can see you like stock parts, that FZR fender is so damned primitive looking. I never bought a kit or anything of that nature, but instead used a cutoff wheel to trim it flush around the fairing, just under the area that says Genesis, removed the old turn signal stocks and drilled the fairing for flushmount lights. Built my own bracket to hang the license plate directly below the brake light, it bolted onto the underside of the remaining fender easily.
Though I'm just guessing that given the year and the look of the bike you're keeping it as stock as possible.
JEM
> MountainCommand
11/12/2014 at 15:33 |
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I am such a sucker for any bike with twin round headlights.
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MountainCommand
> ACESandEIGHTS
11/12/2014 at 23:39 |
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Two reasons I truthfully had them off. To repair a small break. And for fear of laying the bike down, and ruining two pieces of plastic that alone, are worth half of what i paid for the bike. If i sold all the fairings off my bike, id get back more than what i paid. So, really i was protecting some investment while i learned to ride.
I dont mind the look persay, especially if it means drivers have a better chance of seeing me making a turn. The bike has a few upgrades (which take a keen eye to see), but yeah, i plan on keeping it stock. Then on the other hand, it does have 55K miles.... So i kinda treat it like a beater...But Im saving up for a supermoto, which i will then mod the crap out of, and not give a crap about keeping it original.
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MountainCommand
> Meatcoma
11/12/2014 at 23:41 |
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They sure are. The foxeye versions are even better and slightly more modern looking.
I actually forgot about that piece, whoops. I found that wearing leather pants leaves black marks all over the tank. So i had the whole tank taped up in blue painters tape. Solved the issue temporarily.
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ACESandEIGHTS
> MountainCommand
11/13/2014 at 09:38 |
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55K, wowwww, that's been rode hard. Good for you anyway, high mileage bikes mean people have been careful.
bob and john
> MountainCommand
01/27/2015 at 21:32 |
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I know I'm late as fshit, but this showed up in my side bar and i saw someone mentioned upgrades and you said only a few....
i'm going to guess R6 calipers? rotors look different too.
and an exhaust. cant see anything else.
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MountainCommand
> bob and john
01/28/2015 at 22:24 |
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lol.
R1 calipers, but apparently they are the same on the r6. I cant give you a definite on the rotor... I assumed it was stock, but i havent even bothered to find out.
exhaust. steering stabilizer/damper. Nrc stator cover. Stronger clutch springs and disks. aftermarket rear shock. Higher pegs. And someone recently pointed out to me a much thicker fork brace (that metal part that connects the forks and holds the front fender on). It had a 520 chain kit and a down one up one sprocket combo, but i swapped that all back to 530 and stock sprockets.
Somehow i managed to find someone selling the exact bike in exactly the same form that i would have changed the bike to. Its kinda been modernized as much as it could be.