Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

Thanks man! I'm happy with how it came out. TONS of soldering though. I dont even wanna look at my soldering iron for a while lol. The "coil relocate" is just a small bracket with some hardware and a wire extension with butt connectors, honestly could have made it myself. So i'm sure you can make something work. Might be trickier to make it look good though with 4 plug wires. And yeah the indicator lights came out exactly how I had planned, no issues whatsoever. the bulbs pulled right out of the housing, I replaced them with colored LED's, and stuck them into the new housing piece that goes into the new speedo mount. These are the LED's I used. https://www.superbrightleds.com/mor...-bulb-1-led-miniature-wedge-retrofit-car/226/

 

He has the sporty Sportster.. it is different than the rest

 

Would love to do a light bar but want to keep things street legal. I speed enough as it is, don't need another reason to get pulled over

 

I've bought several lights from ADVmonster

http://stores.advmonster.com/

But I ride a dual sport.... Not sure what y'all put on Harleys

 

Im on a dual sport ish bike as well. Those are some nice lookin lights, but assume all for offroad.

 

I run their fog lights on the road. On the bike, I have no shame. If my lights annoy someone they may be less likely to run me over.

 

#lumens save lives

I always run my high beam on the bike. I also have yellow laminix over the led headlight that makes it stand out even more. I noticed that I’d always pick out a subie in my rear view mirror while driving whenever I saw yellow headlights. That have me the idea to do that to my bikes. It doesn’t affect me at night either and the light is still totally useable.

 

as long as the bar is correctly aimed for traffic I have not had an issue yet and I have a straight mx number plate with 4 led bolts for running light

 

I put advmonster F11s low on my crash bars, and made a bracket to mount a small light bar under the fork bracket where the fender was originally mounted.

 

good safe placement

 

30mm ammo cans (18.5x9.5x14.5) are perfect size for side cases, they would probably fit on Tusk racks just fine. Cheap, but a little on the heavy side.

 

Dynomat, a cheap way to cut down on handle bar vibration. Stuck a piece on each riser and cut down vibration by about half

 

Finished rebuilding the second fork last night. Got them back in the triple tree, started putting the front fender back on and cleaning up. Low and behold a missing washer hiding under the old oil seal on the bench, so I get to do it all again!

 

Practice. Ha.

 

Lol right? It's really not a bad job, just takes me a long time because I am trying to not fuck it up, and managed to do that anyway. More pissed that I gotta wait on the new seals and fork oil again, since I can almost guarantee I messed up the seal without that washer. I basically slammed the seal down on the inner fork bushing. The washer would probably keep it from getting fucked up. Sucks because I have a seal driver tool, but you are supposed to technically seat that bushing first but I have no tool that can do that aside from my seal driver tool, via the seal.

 

Yeah forks are fairly easy, ive only done two sets so far. Havent messed with inner cartridges though.

I would use the same oil you just put in if you could put it in a clean container.

 

Inner cartridges can be a messy pain. I had fork oil shoot up 15' onto my ceiling when trying to get the air out of the Showa carts on my RMZ. Of course that is less of an issue with the second fork, once you figure out the right amount of oil to start with... Thank god for the motion pro seal driver tool. Makes life a lot easier.

 

So my Son scored this last Saturday, (stole)took it for a spin on PCH on Monday

edit-my son