Had a good buddy bring in his new 'toy' for some rehab work.
He picked up this stolen/salvaged bike from an auction....and it was WAYYYYY worse than the first few pics. The thief painted the ENTIRE bike white to hide the fact it was stolen.
So my buddy took the time to stripe the whole bike with chemical stripper....and it did a decent job.....but for the price he picked it up for, you can't really complain.
So, then he put on dirk-bike handle bars and ordered a whole new faring kit...
He also make a sweet custom intake for it....which works well, but now the bike doesn't like the excess air-flow...so he needed to purchase a performance chip to tell the bike to put more fuel in it.
Big thing with this build was it needed to be done in a short amount of time before he headed to Alabama for the summer...where he planned on using it.
So I got to stripping things down.
Removed the Tach/gauges....cause who needs to see where they are going?
Removed excess wires up front
Now onto the tails.....wanted a sleeker look with brighter LEDs on them...so I hacked up the existing housings, molded it to fit the bike better and added 3 smoked red led strips for a MUCH brighter/safer appearance.
For the headlight....we're not quite done with this....but basically added Diode Dynamics new SS6 Stage Series DOT LED Light Bar on a custom bracket...this light is BRIGHT...and perfect for the little bike.
All that being said, I was somewhat concerned we wouldn't have enough juice....so we replaced the OEM stater with a higher powered wound stater....so we should be good to go in the electrical department.
He picked up this stolen/salvaged bike from an auction....and it was WAYYYYY worse than the first few pics. The thief painted the ENTIRE bike white to hide the fact it was stolen.
So my buddy took the time to stripe the whole bike with chemical stripper....and it did a decent job.....but for the price he picked it up for, you can't really complain.
So, then he put on dirk-bike handle bars and ordered a whole new faring kit...
He also make a sweet custom intake for it....which works well, but now the bike doesn't like the excess air-flow...so he needed to purchase a performance chip to tell the bike to put more fuel in it.
Big thing with this build was it needed to be done in a short amount of time before he headed to Alabama for the summer...where he planned on using it.
So I got to stripping things down.
Removed the Tach/gauges....cause who needs to see where they are going?
Removed excess wires up front
Now onto the tails.....wanted a sleeker look with brighter LEDs on them...so I hacked up the existing housings, molded it to fit the bike better and added 3 smoked red led strips for a MUCH brighter/safer appearance.
For the headlight....we're not quite done with this....but basically added Diode Dynamics new SS6 Stage Series DOT LED Light Bar on a custom bracket...this light is BRIGHT...and perfect for the little bike.
All that being said, I was somewhat concerned we wouldn't have enough juice....so we replaced the OEM stater with a higher powered wound stater....so we should be good to go in the electrical department.
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