im headed for nyc for a few days but before hopping on a plane i decided that my bike needed a small makeover. i have an idea for rear that id like to try out. if it works im going to call it the ryca cs-1 type r hahaha. heres a photo of how it will hopefully never look again:


heres a photo of how it currently looks

Turned Down:

Some of you may remember my posting about my busted chucks (http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1304297812/239#239) as a result of the knurled pegs on the ryca rear sets. I love knurled anything but i cant afford to bust my shoes every time i go for a ride; my left chuck now looks more like a sandal than a shoe. to help save my future shoes i ended up turning down the left peg, kissing off the knurled surface  

the peg use to look like this:


it now looks like this:

I thought about turning down the knurling too, but its too pretty.  To save my boots, I cut a few sections of road bicycle inner tube and stretched them over the shift peg.  Do a couple layers, and it'll take a month or so before the outer one starts to wear through.

from the abyss:

ahhhhhh so things have been moving REAL slow over the past few weeks and the cs-1 type r mods havent been moving as fast as id like. not to mention i ended up catching bronchitis so all of my time has been spent trying to get better. even though, i have been able to sneak out and get some work done. i started working on a custom seat pan and then ended up getting too sick to move so pops took over and rocked the fabrication. although he did a great job fabricating the seat pan, something unforeseen happened.... it doesnt flow with the shape of the tank. grrrr! so we scraped it and i decided to go back to the seat pan that comes with the cs-1 kit. maybe ill get back to working out the kinks but my bike has been down far longer than needed...i need to get back on the road...back to ripp'n

zen and the art of fender bobbing:

since ive been down with bronchitis there was some confusion and the original front fifender that came with my savage got thrown out. sooooo i bought another fender from a fellow savage owner here on the forum and went to work designing, cutting and fabricating a bobbed fender for my cafe.

i have to admit there was some apprehension to cut up such a good looking paint job. the blue is a really nice blue:


stock fender:


cut lines scratched into the paint:


stock fender cut with a cut-off wheel....ugh after these cuts i realized i had made a huge FORMAL mistake. all this bronchitis has really "blinded" me:


another stock fender purchased from the forum (in black):


this time the apprehension was lost and the bobb'n began (cut line scratched in the paint) *notice the radius on the part that connects to the forks that i had left out on the first attempt*:


cut lines outlined with a cut-off wheel:


bobbed fender temporarily installed on stasis is death, cut, sanded, ready for paint:

action shots:

jimmy the captain slimming down his honda cb550:


stasis is death w/ (failed) type r rear seat pan and (failed) bobbed front fender in back
torn apart / split case xs650 motor in front:

didn't you sneak a spy camera inside RYCA headquarters to show us some of the top secret stuff going on in there?