@Get Scared... thanks for checking out my bike and for the kind words    Awesome that you're thinking about a chainguard/hugger. I'm pretty good with fiberglass myself but I managed to find a Bandit hugger on ebay a while back for ~$40... and I've got too many other projects going right now to take on making one from scratch... but if you do omg I can't wait to see it, I love stuff like that 

@qc... I agree with what you said about 500cc bikes... and I'd say I like the look of fairings and no fairings equally. Someday in the future (when my van's fixed for the winter and I've got my project car done) I'd like to further dive into my ideas for side fairings for my GS that are super easy to take off and on... somehow attaching to frame sliders or crash bars... and not attached to the nose fairing on my bike because it turns with the handlebars... sorry, rambling lol... back to the topic of the thread !!

Qcbaker I agree I love my bike I will never get rid of it and i hate fairings. my friends all had 600s and 750s as starter bikes and look down on my 500 because I can't do 160 on but I have plenty of fun on it. I don't need a fast bike just to ride.

Showbiz when I get something done I will post some pictures. I was about to buy a 400 hugger on ebay a wile back for 40 buck but I missed out on it. then I decided to do the wheel swap since the hugger was half what the wheel swap would have cost me.

Quote from: Get Scared on October 03, 2016, 02:00:03 PM
Qcbaker I agree I love my bike I will never get rid of it and i hate fairings. my friends all had 600s and 750s as starter bikes and look down on my 500 because I can't do 160 on but I have plenty of fun on it. I don't need a fast bike just to ride.

600-750cc sportbikes are definitely not what I would recommend as a beginner bike... The way those bikes lay down power, a mistake that would've just made your heart skip on a 250/500 could end up killing you. Your friends are lucky they haven't hurt themselves.

Small detail swapping to cbr rearsets and thought I would put some "speed holes" in the brake lever and shifter. The brake lever would have fot more hole but there are spring hooks welded to the inside of it that I didn't want to show.

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