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Old 02-25-2008, 10:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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New pics with seat, should have bitch bar, chicken lights, and slide fender before bike week.
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Old 02-27-2008, 12:30 AM   #2 (permalink)
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RR..What tire are you using on the back,and how does it ride...?
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Old 02-27-2008, 12:43 AM   #3 (permalink)
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The tire is a Ventus 245,50/16. It rides better with the bigger tire. On another note, what ever happened to Miami Dave?
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Old 02-27-2008, 09:13 AM   #4 (permalink)
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MiamiDave posts on R3Owners.com quite a bit... That bike's gonna be sharp!!!! I still have to copy your triple air filters one of these days.
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Old 02-27-2008, 02:53 PM   #5 (permalink)
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If you were asking for some ideas, and you didn't, but for the sake of discussion, here's some more that I would do...

1) First and foremost lose the windscreen. It is really killing the bike's look and is very anti-bobber.
2) Lose the gauges.
3) Lose the mirrors.
4) Change out the floorboards for pegs and swap out the foot controls accordingly.
5) Lose the tassels.

The essence of a bobber is, after all, a bike that has had all of the unnecessary stuff removed. So things like have been added on (like tassles and windscreens) give the bike a sort of identity crisis. Makes it look like a confused bagger. Just my humble opinion, but losing that stuff would really finish the bike out nicely and make it unmistakably a bobber.

For bonus points, strip the chrome and liberally powdercoat the bike in matte black or some other non-glossy color.

And is that a car tire on the back?
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Old 02-27-2008, 07:37 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Those tassels could be dangerous at 140 mph...! Hey RR noticed your a pilot in Orlando,my brother flys a Citation 650 out of Hanscom field,Bedford Ma. He takes the jet for service in Orlando at MCO.

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Old 03-01-2008, 11:36 PM   #7 (permalink)
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This takes time

Can't do this change over night! I have to paint and make sure I likes it.
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I don't think you can really call it a Bobber. It's a nice bike, but it's no bobber with the stuff being added to it.
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Old 03-03-2008, 09:50 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Like your sissy bar.. that looks pretty good..
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Old 03-04-2008, 01:50 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Like your sissy bar.. that looks pretty good..
man, not me....never seen a 700lb bobber before....just my $0.02
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