My Gauge relocation rocked up 2 weeks early in the mail today so i spent the arvo putting in on. After a couple of quick trips to Supercheap and some modifications to a lunchbox lid im all done.
I had a bit of trouble figuring out how to remove the light from the eyebrow but after some help from google mechanics ir explained to me that it was just a round cap, so with some help from a Flat screw driver i figured it out in the end
Heres the Lunch box lid. Im going to get something more permanant in the near future for the dummy lights as its pretty much bush machanics, probably look at getting a piece of machined metal to hold them in there.
I just cut some plastic to hold them to the bar clamp for the time being.
Wrapped the crap out of the dummy lights with some sparky tape (temporary).
Heres the finished product.
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This last picture is taken from rider eyesight too . wont be doing over 200 and i can usually tell when im under 20
Over all it was pretty simple to hook up. the Hardest (annoying) thing was just cutting the plastic to hold the dummy lights in.
Next is a Seat from sicksaddles which is about 3 weeks away and im thinking about a 1.5 inch tank lift and wire tuck. Also want to source some black caps for the front and rear axel
i love the sleek look and reccomend it to other Iron owners
Yeh they do, extra $60 US, but they are made for their clip on bars, so you'd never see them with a normal bar and clamp. I havnt ridden it yet since putting this on but that photo from riders eyesight shows you'd have to keep leaning right forward to see them.
Im thinking about putting them over on the left hand side of my bars. Not sure yet.
I didn't want to do the side mount knowing it's illegal in QLD. Keep it looking like it's legal and they won't pull you over and defect you all the way to the bank.
Touch wood.
Mate I couldn't tell you ha. Check the website on the sticker on the bars. Ventura. I had no idea untill I saw that sticker under the bar clamp haha
I bought it with them on it. They are really comfortable as well. And easily adjustable by loosening the top clamp.
Yeh the joker machine bar clamp looks good. I just wanted to sort something a bit different out. Not even sure yet where the lights will end up.
Cheers man. Slowly blacking it out. Just painted the fuel cap matte black over the last few days looks heaps better. Did you have any luck finding the bars?
yeh i just painted my stock fuel cap the other day and it came up a treat. thanks for the info, might have a look at doing that. yeh the bars came with the bike. sorry i cant be more specific.
going to bunnings next week and going to throw together a 1.5 inch tank lift. wont be doing the wire tuck or the ignition relocation just yet..
Yeh mate I'll post in this thread once I sort it out.
Got the tank lift done. Chose 1.5 inch. Picked up this bit of aluminium from bunnings the dimensions are
20mm x 3mm x 1m. Cost me 5 bucks so you have plenty to play with and bought 2 black nut and bolts. 10mm diametre I think and about 30mm long they cost $2.70 for both. So $7.70 all up.
Marked out 1.5 inch holes centre to centre, 10mm from end of metal to centre of hole. I also did 2 inch on the other end just in case I want to go bigger
Just grabbed a grinder and cut them off and filed everything back so no sharp edges or corners.
The bolt needed about 20mm cut off the end so it was short and neat. I chose to have the fixed
head of the bolt hidden on the inside. Due to the frame getting in the way and the head hitting
i just I put the bolt in the vice and took about 4mm off the top with a grinding blade. That gave
me about 3mm of clearance between the bolt head and frame of bike.
My phone died so lacking pics but here's a few after shots, I will be painting it matte black tomorrow.
First pic is before shot.
Ok her are some pics.. the first few are the painted brackets and the bolt after i grinded it down.
I started off with taping the loose coloured wires together and unplugged everything to see where i could get it to fit first. i managed to get one wire and plug around the otherside of the neck of the frame under the bars so now it was on the right side. gave me a bit of room to play with the other wires.
what i did with the tank was remove completly to do all this, after i had them plugged back together i sat the tank in place and just stuck an allen ket in the rear to hold it on and allow it to move.. just chocked it up with a role of tape..... spent the next hour using and cutting a bazillion cable ties and bits of tape trying to get the tank to sit down far enough..
i then broke some wire that went into a black square fuse thing... no idea what it was... manged to get another conector from super cheap and just stripped the wire and put a new one on.. easy fix thank god.
anyways after that i got it in place using minimal zip ties around the backbone of the bike. fair bit of trial an error..
i want to eventually find some black tubing or black tennis raquet tape to clean up the leccy taped wires that you can see.. here are the pics