The Koolaid Project

that would be like a 12 hour drive for me....poop If the price is right I might be willing to do it or see if I can find a few people willing to each carry it a portion of the way and hand it off to the next like a relay race. If not I could just see if he could pull the needed parts for me and ship them.

 

the damage....

 

Other than the damage, that is one of the cleanest 1100's I've seen, did you buy it like that or was there alot of work put into it.

 

go over to gixxer.com to the oil-cooled section. There is a thread in there titled oil cooled picture thread. If you want to see some CLEAN bikes spend some time searching through there.

My bike took a lot of work and still has a shitload to go until I'll be happy. Just little things here and there.

I'm looking at these levers right now.... think I'm going to gamble on them. Stuff from Hong Kong is definitely a gamble though.... oh well it will make me feel better, which I need right now

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/RACE-ADJ ... 3cac18d5b0

 

oh, and thanks for the compliment....

 

Those are pretty sweet, they remind me of the CRG levers I have on my track bike, but about a 1/4 of the cost.

 

Yeah, there is no way I'm putting out $200+ for levers right now. I WISH I could be as cool as you and get the real thing, but I'll have to settle for these asian knock offs

 

and here is what it DID look like pretty much. I added a rear hugger after this pic and the lower fairings weren't on at the time, but you get the idea.....

 

Ha Ha, My wife got them for me for my birthday, there is no way I would pay that either, but I must say they are very nice and after 3 lay downs they still haven't broke

 

THREE laydowns??? on the track or what? Damn man.... I thought I had problems

How about a pic or two of your bike? Feel free to post them up in here.

 

Here's the SV1000s, mostly for the track, but gets a little street time every once in a while.


This is my Vulcan 900 custom that i recently returned to it's stock form to sale, my wife says I have to many toys so something has to go.

 

nice SV.... where did you get the misfits decal for it?

 

The Misfit decals were done by a friend who owns a print shop, that pic was taken at a calender shoot, I have one with a half-naked girl on it, but did know if it would go over to well on this site, but lets see. They blacked out the decals to avoid any copyright issues

 

oh, for some reason the pics weren't coming up at work last night.. NOW I see them. WOW... where do I get that add on for MY bike???

 

man... I want one of those

 

still no updates here.... I'm still working on the GSXR bodywork to get it back on the road. Then the HEEP's floor needs done and THEN back to this project. I was just bored at work and going back through my thread.

I really want to get to work on this. I'm thinking of ditching the hardtail idea for now though and going back to just using the 10" shocks I got for it. That is IF I can find the other one. One is hiding from me at the moment

 

I'm forever putting stuff "somewhere safe, so I'll remember where it's at"...

skillet

 

Yeah, I was going to sell those shocks to tank, but instead I just ended up ordering him some from the seller I got mine from, because I couldn't find the one Now that I didn't sell them I'm reconsidering hardtailing the bike now and just slapping those shocks on. I'm torn.... I need help making this decision.

I just emailed crath's build thread to the guy that is going to help me hardtail the bike (if I do it now) to see what he says about it. It really should only take a weekend, right? All I need his help with is the actual hardtail, seat mounts, and making me bars. The rest I'll do here and there in my own garage.

OR.... I'm searching for a welder, so that I can do it ALL myself. Decisions....decisions.... my head is spinning.

 

I think you should take a long hard look at the frame design of the xj, and how most people hardtail an xj, and then look at any other professionally built hardtail frame, or stock hardtail frame, before you just weld in the pipes to make it a "hardtail". I think, and I am probably putting my foot in my mouth, that the way that many people hardtail an xj is pretty crude, and just plain ugly. If you are going to do the work on something, do it right and go the extra mile and cut the swing arm out. I don't know why, but it really bothers me when people just weld tubes in to make it a hardtail.

 

Thanks for the advice. If I AM going to halfass it for now I'll be using the 10" shocks, but if/when I actually hardtail it I will be replacing the whole arse end....not just welding in two straight bars. I totally agree with you on the looks.