AB-Oz

Coz he sold it to another mate of ours, who now has a FrankenBlackbird

Agent, its a big hunk of plastic, no metal frame. Just mark it and cut away with a hacksaw/dremel, then sand the edges, thats what I did and I like it.

Nice mods, but your lawn mower needs black wheels :goofy:

and the conversation will go something like "that looks awfully familiar to a bike owned and modded by a VFRd member" and here it is: 4GSP Phase Two

On an OzVFR ride last weekend, 20 of us. I was leading the pack and... ...the short version is as I was coming into the carpark at the Halfway house on the Putty Road (~200km North of Sydney, Oz) at about 10-15km/h the front end skidded in gravel, fell over. Lucky that I was separated from the bike too as it didn't fall on me, maybe I jumped off? :goofy: Kirby was right behind me and said one moment I was up, and one "oh-no" second later I was gravel surfing. Trev straightened the gear lever, I taped the bike up with some 100mph tape, straightened the clip-ons which had twisted in on the fork leg a bit, Trev asked if I wanted him to ride it up the road a bit, but I ran it up to temp to check fan and coolant, hopped on and went a K up the road, all was good. I've got a huge bruise on my upper thigh, bike fairings are trashed on the lhs, indicator punched through the fairing, rear is untouched. Bit of a sore elbow, found it hard to push in on the left bar for left corners and was a bit tentative for the rest of the day. Dropped the bike off at the local dealer yesterday and spoke to the repairer, he's going to quote for bike + helmet + leathers + boots, very happy I've got that extra $3k cover for my gear... just have to wait for the process to happen now. p.s. the indicator still works... IMG_5630s.jpg

Do you have any trouble reaching over the screen to take stills?

G'day RoY, might as well hijack this thread as the Phantom doesn't need it! So which bike are the R1 forks going into? KR750? Have you thought about cutting the triple clamp down a bit to give more room to fit clip-ons?

Any pix of these wheels on the bike?

Good write-up and pix. I've watched a few gixxer mirrors go pretty cheap on fleabay, if i ever get rid of the dumbo ears on my Klingon I'll be going for these sort of mirrors.

Nice blackness. Sort of a "Disaster Area" feel to it. (google for reference). Maybe paint the rads black? hmmm, black frame, black hub and sprocket, black triple tree, black clutch and brake fluid res.