First project is to get my BIL's newely acquired 87 Savage cleaned up, maintained and road ready. He gets my old saddle bags, windhshield and whatever goodies are unused on th shelves. SuperTrapp still has sluggo's name on it. BIL is going with a stock HD double taper with the adapter pipe to kick it out and back so it doesn't cook the rear brake lever and springs. He is going with the open look that Matt started (that is where the bike came from on the 'for sale' part of this site) by removing the triangular side covers as Matt had installed one of lancers carbs w/cone air cleaner. Also need to get the crankcase breather system fixed somehow.

On mine I hope to get floorbords, ISO grips, and the hinged back fender that is up on the shelf.  Maybe the sprung solo seat. I rode Matt's ith the seat mod and it makes a big difference, like a horse saddle. I have some LED stop/turn lights for the license plate and am hoping for some LED surface mount turn lights on the fairing and then find some LED bright running lights to go in the fairing where the running/turn lights are now.  

FYI a Savage will fit in the short box of a Chev Colorado Crewcab wth the tailgate down, that is how I got Matt's back from Lopez Island, WA to Moses Lake.


ED will you be taking orders for the Thumper Castings you are considering making?? Max

Present and accounted for - sir.

No mods (OK I added a trunk).

  Also getting ready to cast a 3"x5" "Thumper" emblem out of aluminium to replace the Suzuki emblem on the rear pylon.  

That is a very interesting idea...what are you going to use for your mold?
The reason I ask is that my wife is preparing to make jewelry, gold and silver stuff, and we will have a kiln in a couple of months.  With the tools and equipment she will have, she might be able to do something like that for me.

I check in now and then.  I have an '01 that replaced a '96.  The '96 was still a good bike but a deal came along that I couldn't pass up.  Since it is my daily commuter I have a big fiber glass fairing, a Honda Magna headlight (fills the fairing better), air horns, fog lights, shim and jet mod, seat mod, sportster muffler with extension, taller sissy bar to hang my back pack on, saddle bags, LED tail/directional mod, I think that's it.

klx650sm2002 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:01:


I would like to try something like that, with the cam I have it would seem to be a good thing to do.  Is it an easy job?  Or is it very precise and critical?

SOMD here.  I haven’t done much to my bike.  I bought it in October with the overtime I made from a trip to Louisiana after hurricane Katrina.  It already had soft bags on it, no supports but they don’t rub so I’m not worried about chafing.  The sissy bar was missing it's pad, found one on eBay for 35 bucks.  The previous owner had over filled the oil which blew into the air box and saturated the air filter with oil so I replaced it with a K&N factory replacement.  I also replaced the plug with a NGK Iridium.  That’s about it I’ll try the carb mod today if the wife doesn’t have some other project for me to do.  Does the jet have the size stamped on it?

Thanks Lancer