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The_italian_job
| | Posted on Saturday, May 08, 2010 - 05:23 pm: | 
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I have a B2R triple like Erik and I can't say a bad word about the quality: very well done.
maybe yours Wilson was defected? |
Eshardball
| | Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2010 - 11:02 am: |
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Wilson, Did you reach out to this guy about correcting the crappy workmanship or a replacement? As motorcycling goes, Buellers are a pretty small community and bad news travels fast. I would like to think that he would do the right thing if for no other reason that his own self preservation |
Bads1
| | Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2010 - 03:04 pm: |
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Maybe give Andy a call over at Precision Engineering. He may just do a group purchase run of a part. Also he is a sponsor here and his work is quality. |
Bikertrash05
| | Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2010 - 09:59 pm: |
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Does someone have prints of the Westek one? I might be able to have a couple made. |
Doug_s
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 08:16 am: |
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there's close-up pics of the west tek brace here; i wish i had seen this ad; i'd have been all over it.
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/21/434329.html?1234143625
doug s. |
Blks1l
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 11:09 pm: |
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It looks as though it would be just as easy to make the center out of solid round stock rather then I presume tube, with machined ends welded on. It does look pretty beefy though. |
Spiderman
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 - 10:30 am: |
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I have the west tek brace and it is off my bike right now.
I could be persuaded to make some 3d drawings... |
Doug_s
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 - 02:54 pm: |
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hi all,
i had been in contact w/tim morrison, proprietor of west-tek a while back, hoping to conwince him to do another run. then, i never heard back from him; will today, i gave it another shot. he might be interested, for the right amount of orders. he may also post here; i sent him the link to this thread. he also sent me his old brochures, w/the following comments:
Here is what I have.
Availability is good on some of what is there.
Pricing is not far off from what you would see today.
You can forward this if you like.
Folks would need to be willing to bear with me on some of the parts. Some is here in the shop and some is in storage. These bike have been out of production for a long time.
i cannot post the brochures here; the file is 4.8mb
but, included are:
THE WEST TEK, INC. S2 AIR FILTER BACKING PLATE
THE WEST TEK, INC. S2 BACKREST
THE WEST TEK, INC. BILLET FILTER KIT
THE WEST TEK, INC. CHROME FILTER KIT
THE WEST TEK, INC. FRAME BRACE
THE WEST TEK, INC. LIFT GANTRY
THE WEST TEK, INC. LOWERING KITS
WEST TEK, INC. EXHAUST PACKING
THE WEST TEK, INC. EXHAUST SYSTEM
THE WEST TEK, INC. FULLY ADJUSTABLE HANDLEBARS
THE WEST TEK, INC. BIKE STAND
THE WEST TEK, INC. TOE GAUGE
THE WEST TEK, INC. TOURING RACK
some pics:
doug s. |
Bikertrash05
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 - 03:03 pm: |
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Spidey, please do, it doesn't look that hard to make. Is it all aluminum? And why the welds on the bar, couldn't that just be one piece? |
Spiderman
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 - 03:22 pm: |
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The bar is hollow and the ends are machined, they look to fit into the hollow bar then welded.
I will see what happens with West tek before I draw it up... |
The_italian_job
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 08:49 am: |
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guys,
I've never heard back from B2R, so at this point if someone has another source to get this braces done, let's go ahead.
obviously, count on me for the purchase of 1 brace... |
Blks1l
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 11:47 pm: |
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Any new info. about this? |
Fahren
| | Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 03:22 pm: |
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Bump for news.(?) I think the tube shape goes so much better with the rest of the frame, so that would be my vote. The west tek design is very well thought out; a nice piece of work. Some of their other stuff, like back rests for S2's... cool stuff. Really too bad they do not run this stuff any more. |
Rick_a
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 12:12 pm: |
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There's someone in the U.K. doing a Banke style copy and selling them on Ebay. I like the Banke style...especially when skeletonized.
...leaves room for all the stuff. |
Redefine420
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 12:29 pm: |
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Mad_Carol is part of the company making them in the UK. She has them posted in the classifieds here. They look top notch. I've never seen the West Tek style before, any idea on price? |
Mad_carol
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 12:54 pm: |
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Hi
I'm not part of the company, we liked them and so had a few made by an engineering company. Copied from the Banke one we bought. Thought loads of people would be interested so we did a small run to see if we could make a little bit of money to buy our son his first motorbike. |
Spondon440
| | Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 11:29 am: |
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And have you got any left?
Andy |
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