http://shop.rycamotors.com/1997_Ryca_CS1_for_sale.html
However I am near about sure I can create that seat/side cover combo with 1/10 the parts they have taken to do it.
What crapola, they have a battery box, and a set of fiberglass side covers that click into just their battery box and this and that ... boooooooooogus. The savage back fender has a thickener that is strong enough to take the weight of a 300 lb passenger. Remove the rider seat and fab a plate that a seat like that one in the pic can be fitted on that doesn't have the dip/curve of the stock. Then the rear cowl can be fabbed and bolted on. Then mod the stock side covers - they are steel, to cover up your newly developed 2-3 inch X 8-9 inch slot.
Cool.
Buddha.
SOLD. Did you happen to catch the price before it did Buddha? Looks very nice.
Love the description on this one - http://www.bikesales.com.au/private/details/suzuki-gsx250-1980-12308257?__Dx=mode%20matchany&__D=cafe%20racer&__sid=1348E9C3B5A2&__Ns=p_PriceSort_Decimal
Quote from: Twisted on March 31, 2012, 09:38:06 PM
SOLD. Did you happen to catch the price before it did Buddha? Looks very nice.
They were all over 6 grand. I dont know why but they had to do something with the tank - and I agree the tank is the ugliest part of a savage, however lifting up the stock tank 3-4" in the back gets it looking 1000 times better.
The whole crux of the cafe mod on a sausage is to eliminate the sausage profile for the seat/tank combo - so we need to raise the rear of the tank 3-4", and from there on have a flat seat and the tail cowl on top of that.
The rest of the crap, the 18" rear wheel, the front wheel mod and the foot peg mods and what ever are all just BS. That battery box and air filter eliminaton and K&N is another extraneous mod IMHO. The pipe is a good mod, though a sportster stock pipe is a good one to fit on a savage, and those are plentiful and under 20 bucks.
Well atleast the stock belt drive and shocks are maintained. I like that belt drive.
Cool.
Buddha.
You actually send in your stock tank, and they cut / shape / weld it back together. I believe that it's returned in "ready to paint" condition.
Quote from: Big Rich on April 01, 2012, 06:57:12 AM
You actually send in your stock tank, and they cut / shape / weld it back together. I believe that it's returned in "ready to paint" condition.
Yes that costs 650 bones. BTW you dont need to do any of that, the trick on a sausage to cafe it is to get that tank top side, the seat and the tail cowl into some sorta "fitment curve" - That would easily be accomplished by lifting the rear end of the tank 3-4".
A sausage has a U shape - AKA the sausage shape, aka sausage.
You need to get it shaping to be an "=". Tank to tail straight line paralleling the ground. Of course an 18" rear wheel from the stock 15" will lift the rear end 2-3" and have the tank to tail less of a lift to get to your ideal - = shape.
You can also accomplish with a taller shock, you can do it with a shorter front end, you can do it by lifting the seat/tank rear 4-5". 1000 ways to do it. The advantage of a sausage is that the side covers are steel. Really no reason to get rid of em for these fiberglass ones, steel is an easy material to work with.
Heck I can easily see how I can run the cafe seat pan into the tank ~4" from the mounts. then lift the thing up via longer shocks and then take up the gap you have now exposed under the seat pan with a set of steel plates that weld onto the original side covers and have a connection point to the new seat rail.
However now all that cannot be done in a mail out/mail in scenario. Still I wont get rid of that 15" rear wheel no matter what.
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Buddha.