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SeeAPierce Senior Member 2005 No Login Offline Posts: 282 California Gender:	I haven't visited in a while, but have made mods!! 02/17/08 at 10:52:25 Haven't visited in some time and WOW - A lot of changes to the site...very very cool to see the Savage world continues to grow. So here a the latest mods to the bike...comments welcome as always...
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Keith_T Senior Member Offline Posts: 289 Northern Illinois Gender:	Re: I haven't visited in a while, but have made mo Reply #1 - 02/17/08 at 12:50:19 What a beautiful bike. You've done some nice mods. How is the comfort of that seat?
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10875 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: I haven't visited in a while, but have made mo Reply #2 - 02/17/08 at 17:17:28 VERY NICE AND CLEAN
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SeeAPierce Senior Member 2005 No Login Offline Posts: 282 California Gender:	Re: I haven't visited in a while, but have made mo Reply #3 - 02/17/08 at 17:20:03 Seat's fine for 50 miles or so in traffic...haven't tested beyond that... Thanks! Keith_T wrote on 02/17/08 at 12:50:19: What a beautiful bike. You've done some nice mods. How is the comfort of that seat?
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1st2know Senior Member Offline Currently between Savages Posts: 295 Seattle, WA Gender:	Re: I haven't visited in a while, but have made mo Reply #4 - 02/17/08 at 17:29:43 SWEET. Love the bar blinkers! Weird you get the tank pads from? They look like they were made for the Savage tank. I need those pads for 2 reasons: 1) knees r knockin cuz I'm nervous. 2) when it's cold out, the tank sucks all the heat out of my knockin knees.
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Reply #5 - 02/17/08 at 18:19:42

Ah, we shop at the same stores.

Have the bar end sig's, but haven't found time to put them on.

Same mirrors, it's nice to see behind you isn't it.

Got the header wrap, but changed my mind about it as it will turn it all blue.

Almost went that way with the seat, but went with a sporty seat instead, because that really looks high. And I want low.

I like the air cleaner, but if I do it, it will be either a hyper charger or the largest diameter that will fit under the seat. Almost car style, big round with low height.

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Bobbert Serious Thumper Offline CHOP IT Posts: 836 Los Angeles, CA Gender:	Re: I haven't visited in a while, but have made mo Reply #6 - 02/17/08 at 19:18:53 you just posted pictures of the bike I was thinking about doing (for the most part) BE green w/ tankpads and bobbed guess I'm going to go back to the drawing board
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Reply #7 - 02/17/08 at 20:26:13

sweet.. only suggestion i would offer is to use a piece of sheet metal to cover the wires under the seat.run if from the mount to the back it will follow the curve and keep the wires underneath safe. i mounted my seat that way, broke the spring toot sweet. i now hard mount the rear and spring the front. the springs set on the sheep metal cover i made. it makes for a much lower seat position.

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Unicorn YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 12 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: I haven't visited in a while, but have made mo Reply #8 - 02/18/08 at 07:15:49 It looks great, with one personal observation: it has an old school touch and I think some ape hangers would have looked even better.
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Reply #9 - 02/18/08 at 08:02:14

I too would like to know where to get the knee pads for the tank. My tank is quite a bit wider than stock and when you need to get your knees in as close as possible it would be nice to have some padding there. Do they come in different shapes? Those look great on the stock 650 tank but might look a little odd on a Harley tank.

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Reply #10 - 02/18/08 at 09:50:06

Thanks for all the great comments all!

This is such a great board for mature discussion...much better than some boards that would have immediately posted "THAT SUX!"... :'(

I got the tank pads at www.jpcycles.com. I think they have a couple of different sizes.

I also don't like my wiring solution (if you can call it that). That is definately the next thing up for a re-work...

I thought long and hard about these bars vs ape-hangers...these just felt better to me, but I clearly see how higher bars would be cool...

Still looking for confidence to switch to springer front end... Anybody done that?

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'06 S40 green: sporty muff & 10 degree adapter 155 main jet, 1/2 white spacer, open filter, bar end turn signals

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Reply #11 - 02/18/08 at 10:12:18

I am actually thinking of going to a springer or possibly a girder front end. A guy from another site I visit has givin me some advice and cons about a springer.

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Something else about springers.......... they suck with single front disc brakes. The front axle is out on the end of the rocker. The disc (rotor) is fastened to the wheel on the axle. The caliper is fastened to the front (moving) leg of the springer. Apply brake, caliper grabs disc, which then applies uneven pressure to the axle, which is on the pivoting end of the rocker. Since the caliper is on the suspended or moving leg of the springer, and the axle is even further ahead of this point, the braking force tries to make the one side of the sprung suspension "wrap" on around. I've known several people who've ridden one of these, and the nicest description of the ride while braking with the front brake is "squirrelly". Springers were never intended to have modern braking systems on them. Original bikes didn't even have hydraulic brakes. They were cable-operated drum brakes. The modern softail springer uses dual discs to get around this as best as can be done. But the ride is still inferior to a glide front end. That's why almost all manufacturers pretty well got away from anything but a hydraulic front suspension by the second half of the last century.

That is from a guy called Gryphon from the Anne McCaffrey Fans website who is building is own bike from ground up. He and I have been having some good discussions on what to do with our bikes. He is a hard core American iron fan, but has nothing against Asian bikes.

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Onederer Ex Member	Re: I haven't visited in a while, but have made mo Reply #12 - 02/18/08 at 19:46:38 Another kudos on those tank pads, so small, yet such a change.
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Kropatchek Serious Thumper Offline Why more than 1 cylinder? Posts: 1457 Alphen a/d Rijn Netherlands Gender:	Re: I haven't visited in a while, but have made mo Reply #13 - 02/19/08 at 02:45:35 Very nice bike. Like the handlebar blinkers ( same as mine ). Tank pads, I like them.
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noshow YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 23	Re: I haven't visited in a while, but have made mo Reply #14 - 02/25/08 at 19:30:32 Beautiful looking bike. Nice mods for sure! I looked online trying to find those tank pads or something nearly similar....but had no luck. Anyone else look for them with any form of success?
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