Dr. Evil
Mother of God.
This is mostly for MotoLiam. I ran into him completely by accident in Walnut Creek, and he wanted to see what I had going.
So, for BARF's inspection, I present The Pretty Princess. I gave it that name because it resembles our cat, Honeybee, whom we also call The Pretty Princess. The bike resembles her in that they're both big, black, loud, ill-tempered, and they snort a lot.
I put in a Mikuni pumper, totally necessary, and got all new black plastics from XRs Only, along with the 4-gallon IMS tank, and a 320 mm front rotor. Headlight is a Trail-Tech HID, and the handlebar guards are from a company called Highway Dirt Bikes, and are easily the most rugged parts on the bike. The guy who built them also makes turn signals for dirt bikes. The front ones are integrated in the brush guards, and the rear ones are machined billet aluminum that I mounted to the fender. There are mirrors that tuck rather neatly behind the brush guards when you don't want to look like a dweeb.
For reasons that I can no longer remember, I installed a secondary wiring harness that powers only the lights. I pulled the lighting coils off the stator and rewound them to power my secondary harness. Because of the HID light, I had to install a regulator/rectifier. It works pretty well, so far. For added fun, I had to fabricate a new headlight mount that would accomodate a Scott's damper AND the HID light.
She's meant to be the ultimate hooligan-mobile. Fully dirt-capable with road components that don't make you think "well THAT will be the first thing to break off when I bin it on a trail." I wanted none of that. The carburettor needs tweaking, the oil needs changing, the chain needs cleaning, and it needs a battery, but it runs, and the lights work!
So, for BARF's inspection, I present The Pretty Princess. I gave it that name because it resembles our cat, Honeybee, whom we also call The Pretty Princess. The bike resembles her in that they're both big, black, loud, ill-tempered, and they snort a lot.
I put in a Mikuni pumper, totally necessary, and got all new black plastics from XRs Only, along with the 4-gallon IMS tank, and a 320 mm front rotor. Headlight is a Trail-Tech HID, and the handlebar guards are from a company called Highway Dirt Bikes, and are easily the most rugged parts on the bike. The guy who built them also makes turn signals for dirt bikes. The front ones are integrated in the brush guards, and the rear ones are machined billet aluminum that I mounted to the fender. There are mirrors that tuck rather neatly behind the brush guards when you don't want to look like a dweeb.
For reasons that I can no longer remember, I installed a secondary wiring harness that powers only the lights. I pulled the lighting coils off the stator and rewound them to power my secondary harness. Because of the HID light, I had to install a regulator/rectifier. It works pretty well, so far. For added fun, I had to fabricate a new headlight mount that would accomodate a Scott's damper AND the HID light.
She's meant to be the ultimate hooligan-mobile. Fully dirt-capable with road components that don't make you think "well THAT will be the first thing to break off when I bin it on a trail." I wanted none of that. The carburettor needs tweaking, the oil needs changing, the chain needs cleaning, and it needs a battery, but it runs, and the lights work!
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