Nice Front End

[triplenutter]

Found this on German Ebay and think the front looks sweet, what do you all think?

[ES3]

Not my cup of tea :wink:
I like the stock look :-D

[quirky]

Hmm... that's a '99 509, right?

Not as bad as it could. Looks like a light set stolen from a Beemer, but it doesn't look too bad, IMO. In such matte black finish. I've seen much worse, and that shows more taste than some monstrosities.
I don't mind the look of the original, but I could imagine riding that, too. The only flaw in that style is the pipes/silencer. In that kind of colour scheme, the pipes should be black, and the silencer should be a carbon can. It would look even better that way.
IMO, anyway.

[Curmudgeon]

Looks like a light set stolen from a Beemer, but it doesn't look too bad, IMO.

You're exactly right. That's the setup from BMW's R1150R Rockster.

[triumphrdr]

I like it....Mines red with semi flat black frame, front of tank, and fly screen, sometimes I take the flyscreen off. I really like the bike, and love the wider rear tire! I would be interested in doing the same mod to mine to further set it off

looks good to me. I have always thought that some sort of small bikini fairing would help, this is on the right track IMHO

[beers2u]

On 2006-02-06 15:08, quirky wrote:
Hmm... that's a '99 509, right?

No such thing. 509's were 97-98. 99 was the first year of the 955.

And I don't like the BMW front end...

[kuhlka]

I thought 97 was the t509, 98 and 99 were the t595 (still carb'd), and 2000 and 01 were the 955i (switched to FI)?

[Rubbus]

I prefer stock also...

[Hotmailjerk]

if the headlights were the same size and the turnsignals built in to the sidepods instead of on stalks then id like it.