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[Dead_Reckoning]

No great detail nor new information here.  Just liked the way the wind blown braiding punctuated the view of the tank.

  - I had those on my other bike. Two tone to match the details on the tank.
I called them my Fly Swatters.

Thinking about doing it again with burgundy and gold strands, "IF" BB will let me.


DR

[SBB]

Thanks very much and glad to help out.  This was something like a three year project.  85% of the assembly happened this winter though.  Just in time for spring... 

I remember sitting in that little bar next to the Best Western in Maggie Valley in 08 listening to you tell Nancy and I about the new bike you got.
After three + years you should be proud of what it's become. Hell! I'm proud of it and have never been to the town of Joplin where it was reborn.

SBB

[Twolanerider]

That looks very neat and clean.
Could you show a little more head on please.
Not exactly sure where the headwinds bracket is mounted.

Thanks
DR

Will do Dennis.  Didn't take anything from that perspective today but pretty sure have it in a prior pic.  Just a sec.....

Couldn't access the server from the 'puter out here in the shop so couldn't find what I was looking for.  Just too a low res pic with the cell phone.  If you'd like something better later let me know.

Bracket bolts to the bottom of the tree using the bolt that holds the brake line to the bottom of the tree.  Bracket completely hides the bottom of the tree and hides the brake line.  "Fingers" stick out to mount the spot lights.

[Twolanerider]

Where was that pic taken 2Lane?

DJ, it's a spot that's just south of the local bike shop.  Less than a mile south is the turn that goes down to the Audobon Center.  The road goes beyond the nature center and winds down to Shoal Creek.  Where it ends you've descended that far below 43 Hiway (where the bike shop is) with the river and bridge behind you.  The small bluffs are opposite the water.  So you end up with two nice perspectives to shoot without ever having to move the bike.

[Twolanerider]

I remember sitting in that little bar next to the Best Western in Maggie Valley in 08 listening to you tell Nancy and I about the new bike you got.
After three + years you should be proud of what it's become. Hell! I'm proud of it and have never been to the town of Joplin where it was reborn.

SBB

Remember that well.  Not sure now who else was at the table that day.  For a long time that half dozen or so of us were the only people that knew this project existed though.  Once I had it mostly lined out in my head it became a fun group project for the whole crowd here though.  That was fun too.  Several of the crowed even kicked parts in to the project.  So it really is a group build .

[Twolanerider]

- I had those on my other bike. Two tone to match the details on the tank.
I called them my Fly Swatters.

Thinking about doing it again with burgundy and gold strands, "IF" BB will let me.


DR

Piss on BB  !

I'd do that in a hearbeat to that bike.  Some maroon or burundy and gold or black and gold.  I was never a fan of the look of braided grips on a fairinged bike.  But have always like them otherwise.  Not super long but just enough to give you a good look.  These are just about right.  If I'm wearing my long gauntlets I never feel them.  Without gloves they'll reach back and swat the lower arms just a bit.  Perfect!

[DJ56]

Nice locale choice..I like riding all down in there around Shoal Creek and the Undercliff area.  Damn that bike is pretty!  We need to pm our info to each other so I can come down and be the second site member to lay eyeballs on it.

[Twolanerider]

Nice locale choice..I like riding all down in there around Shoal Creek and the Undercliff area.  Damn that bike is pretty!  We need to pm our info to each other so I can come down and be the second site member to lay eyeballs on it.

As close as you are I'm surprised I hadn't sent that already.  On its way in a sec.

[spydglide]

The more I see of her, the more I like that scooter.  Are you not worried that those stick-on weights on the front rim might decide to come loose and ding that purty paint?  Dyna-beads or clamp-on spoke weight might be a consideration?  Mighty fine with all the detail....it just keeps on showing up, esp. on those low down rear shots.  spyder

[Twolanerider]

The more I see of her, the more I like that scooter.  Are you not worried that those stick-on weights on the front rim might decide to come loose and ding that purty paint?  Dyna-beads or clamp-on spoke weight might be a consideration?  Mighty fine with all the detail....it just keeps on showing up, esp. on those low down rear shots.  spyder

It's the same weights I've used for many years.  Surfaces cleaned.  Flat smooth surfce.  It should be good.  If I'd had some spoke weights I'd have used them.  Only have a dyna bead thing here for one wheel.  There's another that's just walked off somewhere.... 

[Fired00d]

From a brotha of anotha motha... that bike looks pretty good considering it's a "red" bike.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[Black Diamond]

Don

You set the bar pretty damn high!  I bow to you, bass turd!

JW

[Twolanerider]

Don

You set the bar pretty damn high!  I bow to you, bass turd!

JW

Thankyewveramuch !


And it's still not quite done yet.  Biggest cosmetic differences that will happen someday will be future saddle work and the FLHX rear fascia.  But it's mostly there now.  And she do look ok .

[Twolanerider]

From a brotha of anotha motha... that bike looks pretty good considering it's a "red" bike.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

Red my lilly white ass.  That beastie she be, wait for it; Candy Brandywine.  Oh yeah....

[Fired00d]

Red my lilly white ass.  That beastie she be, wait for it; Candy Brandywine.  Oh yeah....

Yea, yea... the MoCo has always given names other than what they actually are... "they" said my bike was "Orange Pearl and Jet Black"... she is O/B as far as I'm (and others) are concerned. ... You my brotha have a "red" bike to match all the rest in your stable.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d