KaiBosh
Novice Class
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posted May 24, 2009 10:30 PM
After 8 months, first ride on my finished project...
Woohoo! After the longest Winter since the Dinosaurs were wiped out, I rolled out my baby that I spent untold zillion hours tinkering on in a friend's basement. She is an '08 for those who may wonder, not sure what the American colours were for last year.
Nothing too extreme, just your typical full exhaust / PC-III, fly-ectomy, and an LSL kit with the superbike highbars and dropped Buell pegs. End result: DAMN. Honestly, I think pulling the flies did more to the 'yank yer arms factor' than anything else, there is 'more' power with the pipe (full TiForce) but the end result is so deceptively smooth still that it isn't that noticable. The flies being pulled gives it that 'right now' power, anyone who says this makes the throttle twitchy needs to buy a Goldwing I think - this is how it SHOULD be. The bike still needs to be geared down (waiting on a dampened 16T), otherwise it is perfect. Honestly, I can't imagine riding this thing without the handlebars. Put 300km or so on in gorgeous sunshine today, all in perfect glass smooth comfort. The MRA-DB works perfectly, I was afraid it would move the turbulence to my face but the wind still hits me well below the chin - perfect (I am 6' 1"). I can tuck down out of the wind quite easily when I want to, the handlebars give you extreme leverage and much better steering than the stock clipons (what are they good for?!) and strangely enough even at sub-orbital escape velocities my hands and arms don't feel like they are in the wind at all - even though they are.
Thanks to dubious for the great deal on the TiForce system and all the help afterwards, and thanks to Blue and all the guys from the old forum for help on working around the extra issues that pop up putting these particular bars on. Without forums like this our sport just wouldn't be the same.
  
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LAB3
Needs a job
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posted May 25, 2009 05:22 AM
Looks Great. Who makes the wind screen? I have the LSL bar Kit too. Being 6'3"
and the Buell pegs made the 14 a different bike to ride. I stayed with the AN-1 bars.
My friend has the AN=2 bars that needed a little cut off each end to make cables work.
Use some paint stripper on the rims and polish the rim section of you stock wheels.
Leave the paint on the spokes and canter of rim. It looks Great when finished.
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KaiBosh
Novice Class
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posted May 25, 2009 08:02 AM
It is an MRA Double Bubble, I meant to order the lightly smoked model but the one I got was pretty much %99 black. That's okay, it looks great and I am surprised to find that I am looking over it in a 'full tuck' anyway.
With the superbike highbars you have to re-route your wiring from a ways back, especially on the left where you have to split the harness for the ignition and clutch stuff. The end result is tons of room though, I had plenty to spare and in fact it was difficult to tidy it up nicely after the fact. Even the throttle cables have plenty of slack flipped around like that. I cut 3/4" of an inch off the bars and then shaped the ends to emulate the stock bar end mounts (fitted some inserts and threaded the bars themselves to hold them). You have to be EXTREMELY careful how much you take off these bars, the clamps for the controls sit right on the hairy edge of where the bars do their curve down and getting everything to fit 'just right' is tricky. Getting all the controls to fit perfectly and drill the 3 holes in the perfect spots was probably the most difficult part of the kit - I know some people shave the 'tits' down instead but that is very dangerous too - you want that throttle casing to be rock solid.
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dubious
Needs a life
Needs more time to ride!
Posts: 8442
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posted May 25, 2009 11:31 AM
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natural selection.....
destiny will overcome intervention.
Some are not worthy of the effort.
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