My Buell Conversion!!

It still needs work (new front turn signals after breaking the ones I had :spank:, cleanup of wires behind screen, aiming the headlights down, and a good wash), but here she is.







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Very nice. Kinda looks like mine. I like the little accents on your rearsets--nice touch.

I love it!!!! A write up of necessary parts and instructions would be sweet!!

Great Conversion!!! I like the mirrors.....what brand are those?

Ramiro said:

Great Conversion!!! I like the mirrors.....what brand are those?

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I think that they are the CRG hindsight mirrors. I have 'em too. They are a little expensive, but worth it.

Ramiro said:

Great Conversion!!! I like the mirrors.....what brand are those?

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The mirrors I got are actually made by a company called Bikemaster. They make my signals, too. You can get the mirrors from here.

I have never used the CRG mirrors, but I can honestly say that these mirrors are AWESOME. I can see everything in them, and I just used the expanding collar attachment and am not using any bar ends right now. I took the bike out on the interstate last night, and I didn't notice hardly any vibration even at speeds above 70 mph. I am thoroughly impressed, I was riding with one of my friends, and I could see his headlight clearly and make out that it was a motorcycle, and not a car.

Dude that looks sweet as but it looks alot more like a triumph street triple r 675

Where did you get the lights/windscreen (part number?)? Looks great!

'05FZ6 said:

Where did you get the lights/windscreen (part number?)? Looks great!

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Thanks for the compliments, everyone. I posted a pretty detailed write-up in the conversion thread here. It includes all the part numbers, everything I bought, where I bought it from, and somewhat detailed instructions.

Cleaned up the bike, and got my new levers, after sending them back. I didn't like the purple adjusters of the CRG levers, so I sent them back and got the black instead. I think they look amazing! I also changed the orientation of my barend mirrors. I can see better out of them now. What do you guys think?

Once again...I love it...I am so torn between doing the Buell headlight or the FZ6N headlight...I'm really leaning towards the Buell though.... looks totally BA!!
really wish I knew how to work well with fiberglass..I wanna do something different!! I have the picture in my head of exactly how it would look but have to ability to do it!! lol...we will see!!

The conversion continues..

Installed new black drag bars and black grips today. Here are some pics...

Took a ride up to Petit Jean today to test out my new tires and handlebar risers. Here are a few pics...

Love the bike...that all black is sick. But I do have one question.

Why the risers if you're gonna go with drag bars? I would assume the drag bars just made the riding position a little too low for your liking? I'm just wondering.

Nice shots, btw! :thumbup:

It looks really good!

CCHOUSEKY said:

Love the bike...that all black is sick. But I do have one question.

Why the risers if you're gonna go with drag bars? I would assume the drag bars just made the riding position a little too low for your liking? I'm just wondering.

Nice shots, btw! :thumbup:

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I wanted the drag bars for the straighter wrist position, but I wanted the height of the stock handlebars. I honestly didn't realize that the drag bars would be that much of difference in riding position, but there was a huge difference.

I picked up the risers off of ebay for $23 and they have a 1.2" rise. It's just about perfect; the position is still a tad aggressive but it's much more comfortable. Also, the top of the handlebars now line up nicely with the top of the windscreen giving the illusion that the headlights/windscreen are mounted lower, and that makes me much happier as well.

Now to repaint the handlebar clamp (spilled gas on it :spank, paint the risers, paint the top triple clamp, paint the radiator cap, and touch up the rearsets. All black, of course.

What bars did you use? they look good!

malicious439 said:

What bars did you use? they look good!

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I bought this handlebar in black. It's pretty good quality, and I haven't had any issues with the coating scraping off like some of the reviews there said. I'm very impressed with the handlebar so far.

Yes the black looks BADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD all right. Thanks

IMO

you need a dark smoked taillight lens (maybe with LED's)!

personally, i don't like bar end mirrors, i would prefer mini mirrors on the handlebar, black colored.

Also a black or carbon exhaust system.

And i would like red stripes instead of purple