| Author | Message | ||
     Motogeek |
OK, I had to do it. I think the "Triple Tail" is fugly. I rarely, if ever, ride with a passenger. It looks much cleaner without it, but I need to figure out a way to fill in the grab handle mounting holes in the metal tailpiece behind the seat. Anyone have any useful ideas? | ||
| Javadog |
I have wanted to, but thought it would not look right. I wish the grab rail had a removable center section where you could click in the beaver tail on those rare occasions when it would be handy. Of course, the rail with no tail and just an empty space in the middle would look really stupid. | ||
| Motogeek |
Here's a few pics.    | ||
| Jmhinkle |
Wow, that really does give the bike that clean Sport-touring look. If you find someway to finish that off, it will be really sharp. Nice job so far. | ||
| Lovehamr |
Heck man, take that body piece off, take it to a body shop and have them fill the holes and repaint the thing. Should be pretty straight forward. Steve | ||
| Motogeek |
I was wondering about that. Thanks for the suggestion. Of course, I'd have to get it powder coated, along with the wheels, subframe, pegs, shift linkage, fork sliders, etc... ;^) | ||
| Bigdaddy |
Motogeek, I haven't started on the back-end yet, but now you've pushed me to move ahead. Some lightweight filler would work, but it would defeat the powder coating effort. Thoughts? I really wish Odie had one in his hands and the time to do his thing on it. You may want to contact him and see if he has the time to do it. G2 (Message edited by bigdaddy on October 17, 2006) | ||
| Chrisb |
There are other products available that could fill the holes and still allow powdercoating. BTW I have a small powdercoating buisness. I have contacted Blake about being a sponsor. | ||
| Fastfxrs |
With all the removing of beaks and triple tails and lowering of suspensions, it won't be long before your Ulys look just like Lightnings (not that there's anything wrong with that, I'm just saying). | ||
| Windrider |
I guess those would be called... Lighting Talls.... Since there are also Lightning Longs?!?!  The great thing about these Ulys is that they are so versatile and it is pretty easy to customize them to your favorite realm of the motorcycle world. | ||
| Homer |
That looks so awesome I went out and did the same to mine last night. I'll post pics of mine later. It looks like surely someone could come up with a plastic piece that could plug in the hole and flush cover the indentation, then you could just pop the plug out if you want to remount the tail. My VFR 800 came from the factory with plastic cover plates for when you removed the passenger grab rails. | ||
| Shovelheadtom |
hey guy's. when i took my tail off,i made a small template from some lite weight card board. transfered it to a peice of alminum stop sign. cut them out curved them over a peice of wood and stuck in place with some accapukky.you can polish or paint accordingly.with just a little preasure from the back side of the hole you can pop them out again, and then use over again. here stop sign's are the rite thickness. | ||
| Motogeek |
Hey, Tom, have any pics you can post of your, um, butt plugs?? (Sorry...)  | ||
| Shovelheadtom |
hey motogeek. no photo's yet working on camera for this gizzmo . but real soon!!! |
