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Red_chili
| | Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 12:21 pm: | 
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Tom, beg borrow or steal (then return, of course!) a camera! |
Dmcutter
| | Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 09:23 pm: |
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what about a lightning fender to actually stop road mung from being flung up, and the beak to fill the ugly, empty void? I have noticed in the headlight beam how much crap gets thrown up, even on dry roads. |
Shovelheadtom
| | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 10:11 pm: |
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hey dmcutter. when tou look at you'r girl from the side pay notice the fork,axle,top of tire area. use a yard stick or something to go from the axle stright up. 90 degree's from pavement. depending on your personal tastes the fender tip need only bee a couple inches or more past your 90 degree mark. the length of the fender is in proportion to distance from tire. with in reason. my fender extension is mounted to the bottom of the rear part of mud guard and is just long enough to keep all the crap off of the rest of her and me. i personaly dig a shorter fender, for look's. i don't spend a alot of time in the farm's. move it foward just a touch more and even more protection, with a real smooth look. i hope to have photo's tuesday afternoon to post that nite. |
Alershka
| | Posted on Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 05:48 pm: |
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Anyone have the part number for the Lightning fender? Are they painted or do they need to be painted? How difficult is the installation on the Ulysses?
Thanks. |
Ftd
| | Posted on Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 11:13 am: |
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Fender: M1662.02A8MW
Wireform front brake bracket: H0418.02A8A
Headlight bracket: M0619.1AD
Bolts for headlight bracket (2) AA0404.11CVB
Just a reminder that the headlight bracket takes a little creativity to make it work.
You will need the wire-form bracket for the front brake line and the bracket that attached the headlight assembly to the triple tree. The Lightning front bracket but it has to be bent and it just makes it. |
Toxic
| | Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 12:35 pm: |
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Another "it could look worse"
(Message edited by toxic on November 02, 2006) |
Red_chili
| | Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 01:00 pm: |
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And the picture makes it look so much better than it does in person! |
Toxic
| | Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 01:14 pm: |
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Isn't that the truth Red... |
Red_chili
| | Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 02:33 pm: |
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If there was a way to strip it down, and build a frankenbike out of it, actually, I might have gotten one. The 'fairing' is huge, like a bubble sticking out waiting to snag things, and ugly as sin, and nothing can be done about it besides putting a new tank on it or something. And the 650 is slow, and the 1000 is... strangely torqueless.
I walked after looking at it for 10 minutes. It's a good value. So is day old bread. |
Ft_bstrd
| | Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 02:29 am: |
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Looks like an evil soul less insect. I could not have been more underwhelmed.
Like straddling a toaster oven. |
Electraglider_1997
| | Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 09:19 am: |
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Come on you guys, quit holding back, tell us what you really think. |
Red_chili
| | Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 01:10 pm: |
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I do think starting with a stripped SV650 and a ... well, lessee... maybe a CR250 or KX something with a roached motor... and marrying the two courtesy of a hobby verticle mill and lathe and welder, could produce an interesting frankenKLR-like thing that actually worked to modern standards.
You think I'm kiddin' doncha? I did something like that to my R80 G/S, cuz I hated the suspension. Worked pretty well too. Not to mention my frankenrunner. Fun things dun.
Out of the box though the Uly beats that thing up and down the street and twice on Sundays. |
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