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[Medicine Creek]

no linky work for me either. would love to see the pics, man

[Denisesewa]

Originally Posted by onaXR

I see you have it safely inside now. You could prolly put it back together with parts from the stuff this thread took off and replaced.

Yep. I'd donate some take-offs , had my R6 stolen and know what it feels like.
Denise

[Nocturnal]

Originally Posted by Denisesewa

Yep. I'd donate some take-offs , had my R6 stolen and know what it feels like.
Denise

So did you get the stalling problem sorted out?

[Denisesewa]

Originally Posted by Nocturnal

So did you get the stalling problem sorted out?

Not yet, leaned it out as far as I can and its better, waiting on some smaller jets ( and a bunch of other stuff) ;)

[mattmbishop]

Bugger. I obviously can't link from that website, photos uploaded to a different site and should now display inline:

Rear rack showing back mount (kinda). I welded a tab onto the bottom of the sub-frame and bolted thru it. The rear of the rack bolts onto the existing mud-guard frame.



Subframe reinforcement. I used flat to triangulate the subframe.



Now, my rack was reasonably rural in comparison to Doug's, one of the guys coming with me to Aussie. He spent days bending up his frame, and it looks more like a bloody work of art than a rack ...



Finished product:



Hope that was worth waiting for.

[onaXR]

Yup sure was. Those racks look great.

[Medicine Creek]

i'm with onaXR on this one, worth waiting for. your pal doug should go into buisiness. days - woulda taken me years to get all that bent and it still would have been all jacked up.

i see you both welded a piece into the lower V where the rear frame meets the front down leg. is that a known weak spot? i thought about it but didn't put anything there. maybe i should.

[mattmbishop]

Cheers Guys.

I've never seen a frame break there, but the paint was starting to craze. We're thinking of carrying a lot of weight, and when the welder's right there it's pretty easy to chuck a gusset in.

We also gusseted the x-member rear of the airbox and the acerbis front tank mounts, based on photos from this guy's site: http://www.geocities.com/wwbagwell/

[Denisesewa]

Think I'm gonna hafta sew me up one of these, give the bike a finished look with the desert tank >>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/TANK-...spagenameZWDVW <<<

I have to wonder though, how many yards of material I'll go through before I get a fit like that, check out the XR 600 colors.
Denise

[wheelnut46]

What a great idea.

[Mr Kawasaki]

Originally Posted by onaXR

I see you have it safely inside now. You could prolly put it back together with parts from the stuff this thread took off and replaced.

It's now got the stigma of a "prior salvage" title. Putting it back stock with take off parts just seems wrong. I am set on the corbin seat but can't decide which tank to use. I have a dual headlight bucket from an FZR600 that I was going to use but that single round trailtech looks really good.

[spezjag]

Originally Posted by Mr Kawasaki

can't decide which tank to use.

I got the IMS, but if I had to do it all over again, I would go with the Clarke

www.clarkemfg.com

Better fit, better quality, plus they have that snazzy aluminum fuel cap.

[Medicine Creek]

Originally Posted by Mr Kawasaki

I am set on the corbin seat but can't decide which tank to use.

my corbin wouldn't have fit with the acerbis tank without modification. could not turn the bars lock to lock without reforming the acerbis with a heat gun. had to move the front turn signals up to just mount through the lower holes. getting to the spark plug is a pain and the mounts will break sooner or later. after i break this one i will buy a clark.

[onaXR]

I run a clarke and am happy with it.

[Mr Kawasaki]

Thanks guys. Looks like the Clarke is the clear choice. Now if I could just decide on a color.