and the verdict is... KEEP THE RED SCHEME .   I put the parts on the bike tonight as a test fit and the bike looks absulutly amazing with the solid black wheelsand silver frame!  its amazing how the pictures of these parts do not do the bike justice.  it still looks like a mean street machine with the red and I love it!

here is a bad cell phone picture because I didnt have my camera with me tonight



thanks for all the input ! I will tank more photos after the bike is finished.

what'd be really cool is if you did a fade from the center of the rims so it went from red to black. then a silver pinstripe and you're looking golden.

Quote from: ledfingers on February 07, 2007, 02:03:15 AM
what'd be really cool is if you did a fade from the center of the rims so it went from red to black. then a silver pinstripe and you're looking golden.

what about just a red pin stripe on the rims?

I think that would be too much red.

Quote from: scratch on February 07, 2007, 01:08:17 PM
I think that would be too much red.

you're probly right. how do you all like having the front fender gunmetal matching the graphics on the sides? kind of a cool two tone thing going.

POST MORE PICS!!!!!  please.

GOOD Choice. 

Looks better on a running bike than on the rolling frame in my garage.  Glad you like them and I know you got a great deal!

im super tired tomight ill talk abut it tomorrow.

nice freaking mirrors!!!!!!! where'd you get those?

Quote from: ledfingers on February 10, 2007, 01:34:38 AM
nice freaking mirrors!!!!!!! where'd you get those?

I bought them from a local shop here cost me 60$. but you can find them online anywhere. they are nepolean bar ends.  Hope I spelled that right.  do you guys like the gunmetal front  fender or should I put the red one on?

I like it. I think it kinda hides the front fender a bit.

A red fender may make it look the gaudy red you were trying to avoid.

Quote from: 3imo on February 10, 2007, 07:15:33 AM
I like it. I think it kinda hides the front fender a bit.

A red fender may make it look the gaudy red you were trying to avoid.

Thanks I appreciate that!

here are more pics.


I also modefied the GSXR pegs to fit the stock rear brackets. I didnt see my point in me cutting the bike up just to fit those gsxr brackets on so I added some metal by welding and grinding to the inside of the bracket on the stock gs500 ones so that the gsxr pegs would stop when put down.   now I can just buy pegs for a gsxr and fit them up anytime I want to.  btw I already resprayed them, I know in the pic they are brown looking lol.

I love the exhaust, does the bike look like a dragon breathing fire out of it's nostrils when you're riding her?

Quote from: SmartDrug on February 11, 2007, 11:45:16 PM
I love the exhaust, does the bike look like a dragon breathing fire out of it's nostrils when you're riding her?

He's got the exhaust off cuz he's rebuilding his old V&H..

Quote from: NiceGuysFinishLast on February 11, 2007, 11:50:17 PM

Quote from: SmartDrug on February 11, 2007, 11:45:16 PM
I love the exhaust, does the bike look like a dragon breathing fire out of it's nostrils when you're riding her?

He's got the exhaust off cuz he's rebuilding his old V&H..

Thanks!  exactly right.

the exhuast is sitting right by the motorcycle in my storage space right now, I am purchasing new exhuast bolts and fitting it up tonight. I then have to mark where I need the bracket to go because I want to tig weld the bracket on with c715 filler instead of trying to mig weld it on that would defeat the purpose of corrosion resistance lol.

the bracket will be tigged on tuesday and then it will be on tuesday night which I will have pictures of.

thanks for the great comments.

Josh

Ok Ive got the exhuast painted and all fit up , I broung the back half in today to weld a bracket to the can. for some reason I never realized how much tension the old V&H system was in. The old bracket system will just not work , infact in some of the pictures you can tell where the backside of the exhuast rubbed the frame and took some metal off with it. NOT COOL! so I am basically welding a hanger on it much like a hanger on a cage exhuast. I am then threading the end and running it through the bushing then putting a Nut on the end. although I was thinking of another type that would be a bracket with a hole in it that I can just run a bolt through but I think the hanger is an easier concept.