Zhooligan
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posted February 22, 2003 05:43 PM
Finally got to ride some!
Well the weather was finally ok enough to ride and my bike was in running shape. Did a short jaunt of just over 60 miles. It was a fun blast indeed. Managed to see 180 on the yellow box corected speedo on one of our back roads. Shook the cob webs out a bit!
  
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Northern
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posted February 22, 2003 06:22 PM
Zhooligan I saw some of the weight reducing measures you have taken with your bike on another site. It sounds like the bike I would like to have. A couple questions: how are the wave rotors working out, how much of a weight savings?Could you give any details on how you reduced weight with the passenger seat, its kinda heavy and useless once I remove passenger foot pegs. thanks
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Zhooligan
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posted February 22, 2003 07:01 PM
 Edited By: Zhooligan on 23 Feb 2003 13:08
It has been quite a while since installing the wave rotors. They work great. They weighed if my memory serves me about three pounds less.
The seat mod I did was I left about two inches of the seat on the leading edge (back rest area that sticks out of the cowl). I used a shoe lace and litterally sewed the cover to the plastic seat base so that I could then remove everything back from that point. That being the foam, and seat cover. I then cut a huge portion of the actual seat base , leaving enough to keep the hardware required to set the seat in place and lock it. I also cut and removed as much of the heavy plate that is the two prongs attach to at the front of the seat. Effectively i left enough to use the bolts to secure the prongs and cut the center out. That plate is really heavy duty. Anyway the result is my rear seat weighs very little compared to the stock unit. About a pound and a half less. In my case I bought a spare seat so if I ever wanted to actually go back I can.
So in a nut shell you leave enough seat to make it appear to be there whem it is on the bike!
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Northern
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posted February 23, 2003 08:02 AM
Iknew that dremel tool was going to come in handy,thanks for the info.
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