Just got pulled over on the bike! First night out. Unregistered with no brake light, no mirrors, no seat and a plate from my other bike.
I guess I ran a red but I don't remember seeing it. He let me go without a ticket. The bike works!
BLINKERS
It's a drag sticking all these accessories on the bike. I made them as small as possible and have them mounted to an existing bolt.
I'm not a fan of teardrop shapes but it all gets covered up and I had to cut it at an angle to make room for the blinker nut.
It's 1in. flat bar at 1/8in. thick cut with a grinder and drilled on the press.
I bolted one half on the fork, mounted the light on the other tab, tacked it on, bent it to the right angle and then gave it the full weld.
IGNITION
Having the ignition switch centered up on the bars always felt like I was turning on a lawn mower and I've always loved the way it is on my 450,
which is up front just under the tank. Having a consistency between the bikes is nice too. So I mimicked the 450.
It's a piece of 10ga. scrap drilled with a mag drill and cut with a grinder.
Not the best tig welder but it works.
HEADLIGHT
Been looking at new and smaller headlights but thought I'd make a quick install for the stock one because
I wanted to get on the road to test the bike out.
It's 1in. flat bar at 1/8in. thick just bent. It mounts to existing bolts on the stem.
Welded some tabs to grab the light.
Doesn't look too bad. A top mount would probably be better but for now this will do.
The gauges didn't fit under the new bracket, forgot to check, so I cut part of them off so you could get them in there real nice. I'll make a
whole new mount for those later.
Still have to grind, blast and wax it.
The best thing about the massive stock headlight is that it holds the giant rats nest of cables. I will sort those out later.
