Motorcycle Modifications, Repairs, Restores, and Upgrades:

Lori

So it only took me 3 years to finally get to this.....and I really can't take credit for it anyway. I have a really really awesome friend and I came home last night and found it in my garage like this....

We had started on it at his house this weekend and had it all ripped apart but while he was drilling out the holes for the bracket he had an 'incident' with the drill and his hand...and we had to stop. I figured we would just finish it up this weekend but he surprised me and had it sitting in the garage waiting on me last night.

I did it the very cheap way - bought a metal bracket at Home Depot for about 1.50, the turn signals were about $15 and the led lights to aluminate the plate were about $20 all from Cycle Gear. So for about $40 I have a nice pretty undertail and no more gigantic mud flap. The wiring wasn't too hard, just a matter of connecting the new stuff where the old stuff was. We actually pulled the entire tail off so I could remove the Scorpio alarm I had on it. Probably would have needed to anyway just to make it eaiser.

I still have to get it inspected and will either need to mount a small plate under the license plate for it or see if they will put it on the swing arm for me but she's all done and purty. Now I just have to get my new tires on and she'll be ready for riding....

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Side View -

adrian

Dammit! I want to see it, but the images are red x while I am at work. This I have to check out when I get home.

An incident with the drill, eh? That is why you should just use a torch for everything. Fire doesn't have sharp edges.

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Lori

Well the 'inciden't consisted of him holding the bracket in his left hand while using the drill and kinda wiggling it around to make the hole bigger when it slipped and landed on the fleshy part of his thumb taking a few chunks of skin and digging in pretty good. It really wasn't that bad just looked all chewed up and it's not like the drill was clean.

So I helped him wash it all out and bandaged him up and we stopped for the day....

adrian

If y'all had been using fire, it would have cauterized the wound and y'all could have had some smores.

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SRiley

Pryromaina is a serious disease ya know.

Looks good Lori. Need to trim mine down too but haven't quite figuered out how.

adrian

There was a song back in the day I think was called "The City Sleeps" by MC 900ft Jesus. I just had that pop in my head right when I read that.

Okay, no more off-topic from me. I am just jealous because I can't see the undertail modification photos until tonight so I am ruining a perfectly good thread.

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Lori

You have some issues there my friend....

Mark

Nice look Lori. I like the clean tail end as opposed to the billboard the factory wants to hang back there... WTG...

Hope your friends hand heals up nicely...

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adrian

Ah, now I can see the photos. That does look a lot better.

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Lori

Yes I'm really happy with how it turned out

my newly handicapped friend did a good job....