My first ride, 2009 GS500F. All changes are cosmetic.
Changes include:
Removal of all fairings
New after market Custom headlight fitted with phillips extreme vision H4 bulb
New after market Headlight and indicator brackets
New after market bullet style indicators
Rear fender chop and shape
Blue LED's for speedo and tacho
2" bar end mirrors
Painted forks and top of triple tree (matt black)
Paint retainer clips, horn etc
Good old wash and ride :woohoo:
(http://i.imgur.com/scvA8m2l.jpg) (http://imgur.com/scvA8m2)
(http://i.imgur.com/MTGL2bFl.jpg) (http://imgur.com/MTGL2bF)
(http://i.imgur.com/B3YIxPSl.jpg) (http://imgur.com/B3YIxPS)
(http://i.imgur.com/4ZhDCGRl.jpg) (http://imgur.com/4ZhDCGR)
Things to note:
Check indicator wiring before testing. Blew my flasher relay, lucky i bought a no load LED flasher relay already.
Read up on replacing guage lights with LED on the forums here.
Bought a bunch of LED wedge bulbs to replace speedo, tacho and guage lights. The guage lights were different for my model and wouldnt fit (too large).
Will give away to a good home.
I only recently acquired my licence so i don't have much experience with bikes. That being said i love my ride. Even more now it suits my style.
I've never really enjoyed the aesthetics of faired bikes. For anyone wanting to go naked i urge you to take the plunge. My total expense was around $250 AU
including masking tape, paint etc.
New tyres going on this week (pirelli sport demons), maybe a slip on exhaust later in the year. I honestly don't mind the stock sound and neither do the po po :police:
Wow thank you for sharing, your bike looks super clean!!! I love the look of the fork legs painted black.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen people asking what headlight should they go with when converting from F to E... maybe you could post that info (like a link or the exact headlight you used) because yours looks wonderful (IMO) and then this thread would show up when people search :D
The LED bulbs for the gauges... that idea has been in the back of my mind for quite some time now and I think this is gonna be the spring/summer I finally do it. Could you tell me more about what you did and what bulbs you finally did use? Also did you replace the bulbs for the high beam/oil/neutral indicators as well? That's on my possible-to-do list as well.
:cheers:
Still have the fairings and hardware?
Quote from: ShowBizWolf on March 22, 2016, 08:46:30 AM
Wow thank you for sharing, your bike looks super clean!!! I love the look of the fork legs painted black.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen people asking what headlight should they go with when converting from F to E... maybe you could post that info (like a link or the exact headlight you used) because yours looks wonderful (IMO) and then this thread would show up when people search :D
The LED bulbs for the gauges... that idea has been in the back of my mind for quite some time now and I think this is gonna be the spring/summer I finally do it. Could you tell me more about what you did and what bulbs you finally did use? Also did you replace the bulbs for the high beam/oil/neutral indicators as well? That's on my possible-to-do list as well.
:cheers:
Cheers i appreciate your kind feedback :)
Headlight http://www.shop.modernmotorcyclecompany.com.au/collections/headlights/products/headlight-7-black-cafe-style
I think they also have a US store
It is H4 plug and play, comes with a parker light which i soldered and then used bullet connectors (same process with the indicators)
LED's are from https://www.superbrightleds.com/
Speedo and Tacho were WLED-B5 which have a 220 degree light source which you will need. I chose blue but there are other colours
I stuffed up with the guage lights. I copied another forum member who installed them on his GS500E.
My guage bulbs were half the size and the new LED wouldn't fit. Ill try swap them or give them away.
I found the ones i need which are the "74" style. The wedge base is half the size. Maybe its an F model thing? not sure
Best part is its only 5 minutes work. Unscrew the unit and plug them in :laugh:
Quote from: Daeouse on March 22, 2016, 09:40:30 AM
Still have the fairings and hardware?
Yes i do. Minus a small clip that perished in removal. All brackets, screws and mirrors, the lot
Interested?
Quote from: Cainus83 on March 23, 2016, 02:12:07 AM
Quote from: Daeouse on March 22, 2016, 09:40:30 AM
Still have the fairings and hardware?
Yes i do. Minus a small clip that perished in removal. All brackets, screws and mirrors, the lot
Interested?
Very. :woohoo:
Depends on your price. :cool:
I second the forks being paints black looks good.
Of all the "I crashed and forgot to fix it" jobs, this is the best.
Well no its not, I did a Kat FE swap on a lightly crashed 04 and turned it naked, but this is very very good. Thank god you didn't "murder" it out or something.
Cool.
Buddha.
If I am not mistaken this conversion was not to cover up a crash.
I think it would look even better without a chain guard or passenger pegs. :icon_twisted:
Anyone sell an abs cap that could go over the back seat? I agree the pegs coming off would look good, but it is nice to have the option for a rider...plus I'm not sure if I would want to cut the bracket and grind it down and if you take the pegs might as well take the metal work with it.
Quote from: Cainus83 on March 23, 2016, 02:07:59 AM
I stuffed up with the guage lights. I copied another forum member who installed them on his GS500E.
My guage bulbs were half the size and the new LED wouldn't fit. Ill try swap them or give them away.
I found the ones i need which are the "74" style. The wedge base is half the size. Maybe its an F model thing? not sure
Best part is its only 5 minutes work. Unscrew the unit and plug them in :laugh:
Just wanted to update, I got around to ordering LED bulbs and installing them in my gauges and indicators. I believe you must be correct when saying the 74 style is for the F models... the 74's were impossibly small for the indicators on my E... no way they were going to work. The bulbs I ordered for my speedo and tach however worked perfectly. They were the WLED 120's... but now I gotta order more bulbs so I'm thinking I'll go ahead and order the B5 220's for the gauges as you suggested. :thumb:
ok, back to where the conversation was going before my post :embarassed:
And hard mounting the headlight causes the bulbs to blow rather often, as in, like every week.
You could get by with LED conversion or something else, like a HID.
Cool.
Buddha.
Have a look at these. The emmiters are they same position and size as tungsten ones so the reflectors and cutoffs work. http://www.philips.com.au/c-p/12953BWX2/x-treme-ultinon-led-led-car-lamp#see-all-benefits
Cyclops now makes a good one as well. I have one on my MT07 and the low beam is cutoff properly