Hey guys! I'm new here so please bear with me! I stumbled across this forum today as I was randomly searching for mods for my bike. It's an 08 FZ6 S2 with the full fairing, wind protectors and the original low windscreen - which I think gives the bike a sporty and aggressive look. Now I really need your help deciding which mods to do! What I'm looking into:
-Pipes - Considering Two Bros carbon and Leo Vince carbon. Your opinion?
-Turn signals - Clear or smoked? Where can I get some nice ones?
-Windscreen - I like the look of the Puig dark smoked racing screen.. What do you guys think?
Fender elim. - Again Puig looks nice. Other types I should be considering?
-Frame sliders that won't require any cutting or drilling?
If you have suggestions for other mods please share! ^^
Thanks!
-Chris
Welcome Chris, always nice to have a new member to the forum! as for the stuff your looking at, here's my two cents:
Pipes: Get the two bros. carbons....they look sick, sound sick, and through the admin on this fine forum here you can get them for $750 canadian, roughly $700.00 U.S. depending on the exchange rate that day. Just go into the vendors/ group purchase section of the forum to learn more.
Turn signals: The best option is naturally the most expensive, but the Watsen designs LED signals are awesome! Super bright, flush mount, can be seen from the front and sides (unlike other flushmounts), cnc'd machined aluminum, NOT PLASTIC! Also everything, including the LED's is guaranteed for life so no worries about them burning out or anything. These run about $150 shipped, however there is a group purchase being set up right now that should allow us to get them for about $100. Myself and many other members are signed up for this, and you can learn more in that same Vendors/Group purchases area of the forum.
Windscreen: Being 6'2" I know what you mean about being tall. Myself personally, I like the look of the stock screen as I feel the puig makes it look more like a touring bike and less like a sportbike (nothing wrong with that, just not my cup of tea). I didn't like the fact that it was plain-jane clear though, so I painted mine. If you want pics of how it turned out and all, PM me and I can give you more on this.
Fender Eliminator: nothing better than the free kind, which is exactly what you get if you decide to get the Two Bros exhaust. I think its a really sweet bonus it comes with a free fender eliminator because these run about $100 from what I've seen. To that end, since I like the look of the two bros one and I'm ordering a set of pipes I haven't looked at many others, but I know competition werks makes a pretty sick looking one though (again for about $120).
Frame Sliders: Should be your first investment, just ask Lattin25 lol. I get to mess with him since he's my friend and all, but he had a deer jump out in front of him and had to lay it down....needless to say not pretty. We all just thank God he came out of it ok. As for which kind, I just ordered a set of motovation sliders at the recommendation of the majority of the members here on the forum
Motovation Frame Sliders, Swingarm Slider and Accessories not too pricey at $80, and if you lay it down you can buy replacement slider pucks for about half that. Also heard good things about Uncaged and T-Rex sliders, but since Uncaged went out of business they'll be tough to find. I'd recommend getting the motovation ones and they have been (unfortunantly) crash tested by members of the forum and seem to hold up quite well. Almost forgot to mention that the motovation kit is a no-cut slider kit, which means you just replace the engine mount bolt with the new bolt for the slider and off you go!
Hope that covers all the bases :steve:
j/k
