What modifications did you do to your bike today?

**bogan** · 30th August 2011, 11:40

* doesn't have to be today's today, yesterday or the day before's today works too!

A mod's description must be accompanied by a picture or two. If you have a build thread, put up a summary here and link back to your thread for more in-depth write up. Any sort of mod goes, bolt on parts, or custom fabrication, if you think it is going to be of some interest, post it up!

If we get enough interest here, we might even get a mod/build sub-forum. Also don't forget to vote in the poll.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 30th August 2011, 11:42

I bought some bar risers and put them on my workbench. I looked at the brake hose and thought "Fuck, hope theres enough slack in that for a 30mm lift".

gotta get the forks back before I can try though.

**bogan** · 30th August 2011, 11:45

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

I bought some bar risers and put them on my workbench. I looked at the brake hose and thought "Fuck, hope theres enough slack in that for a 30mm lift".

gotta get the forks back before I can try though.

You'll be right, I got away with about a 60mm lift, and significantly wider with no change to the brake line. Clutch and throttle cables had to be remade though, I think there is generally less slack in them, as they do not have to cope with wheel travel.

**bogan** · 30th August 2011, 11:54

Noticed the chain roller was getting a bit chewed on one side, so flipped the roller, and moved the whole lot over a smidge. Also put a hose clamp around the exhaust wrap where the brake lever was starting to wear through (do not want that unraveling and getting caught in the rim).

And got round to swapping the not connected e-stop to a logo thingumy on the electric, bit safer that way. Pretty stoked with how it turned out, machined the logo into it, then painted the whole lot black, then sanded the paint off the top surface.

**Pseudonym** · 30th August 2011, 12:10

Brought some new and improved suspension plates off a bloke in the States from another forum I hang out on.
Upgraded my GPS tracker so now I can turn off my bike via my phone as well as track it and it also has a “Help! I’ve fallen and accidently the whole thing!” button that will call for help for me.
Am working out how to integrate that function into the tip sensor just encase I’m having a nap in a ditch…
Solo riding, I love it but it has drawbacks…

**imdying** · 30th August 2011, 12:22

Cables and hoses are no problem, I can sort both of those out for you guys (i.e. those on KB that are truly into modifying bikes and not just some old bugger wanting to make his sports bike more comfy) at minimal cost (i.e. just parts, no labour).

Programmable ignition arrived last week, now designing a loom. Some spanky silicone hoses also arrived, so fitted those up.

This month, exhausts, rear sets, maybe some sensors for the logger

**Parlane** · 30th August 2011, 12:42

Originally Posted by imdying

Cables and hoses are no problem, I can sort both of those out for you guys (i.e. those on KB that are truly into modifying bikes and not just some old bugger wanting to make his sports bike more comfy) at minimal cost (i.e. just parts, no labour).

Programmable ignition arrived last week, now designing a loom. Some spanky silicone hoses also arrived, so fitted those up.

This month, exhausts, rear sets, maybe some sensors for the logger

"Programmable ignition" - please go on.. pics.. info? Website?

**shrub** · 30th August 2011, 12:45

My T Bird has Daytona 955 cams, modded airbox & K&N filter, high spec coils and Harris pipes. It is putting out around 90 hp at the back wheel compared to 82 at the crank stock, plus the torque curve is lovely and flat meaning it pulls hard from 50kmh in top with no holes in the power.

Brakes and suspension are stock but are well above my skill level but I am going to fit braided steel brake lines.

Cosmetically it has a bobbed rear guard, replica Lucas tail light, aftermarket billet indicators and bar-end mirrors. At some stage before summer I'll be powdercoatiing the triple clamps and fork lowers black and giving it a repaint - probably black with chequered strip a la Thruxton and replacing ugly rubber hoses and cheap hose clamps with something a little nicer.

My BMW is still in bits, but at this stage I'm thinking bobber.

**imdying** · 30th August 2011, 13:01

Originally Posted by Parlane

"Programmable ignition" - please go on.. pics.. info? Website?

Zeeltronics box made by some smart fella in foreign country. Has all the typical shite... interpolated 3D maps for ignition advance curve and power valve curves, solenoid control for air bleed solenoids and power jets etc, quick shifter, shift light, rev limiter etc etc. His website is shite, so anything in particular you want to know?

The hand held programmer is cool, looks like a pocket (lol yeah right) calculator from 1980

**Parlane** · 30th August 2011, 13:05

Originally Posted by imdying

Zeeltronics box made by some smart fella in foreign country. Has all the typical shite... interpolated 3D maps for ignition advance curve and power valve curves, solenoid control for air bleed solenoids and power jets etc, quick shifter, shift light, rev limiter etc etc. His website is shite, so anything in particular you want to know?

The hand held programmer is cool, looks like a pocket (lol yeah right) calculator from 1980

Aw, I had the wrong type of ignition system in my head. i thought it was more like:

Start your bike remotely etc to get her warmed up. (With some kind of lock on gear shift etc :P )

**specter** · 30th August 2011, 13:08

my GSXR build after i... umm... broke it

corona fairings, carbon fibre cluster, driven grips, micron slip on, R&G tail tidy

**imdying** · 30th August 2011, 13:11

Originally Posted by Parlane

Aw, I had the wrong type of ignition system in my head. i thought it was more like:

Start your bike remotely etc to get her warmed up. (With some kind of lock on gear shift etc :P )

Now that we can do too.... the same bike has an RFID key to remove the ignition lock. Remote start is pretty easy too, but we'd really need a modifications sub forum to get into that sort of detail....

**Parlane** · 30th August 2011, 13:14

Originally Posted by imdying

Now that we can do too.... the same bike has an RFID key to remove the ignition lock. Remote start is pretty easy too, but we'd really need a modifications sub forum to get into that sort of detail....

Need electronic activated brakes too

Do you count cosmetic fixes as mods? Or are you asking for a "Project Bikes" forum ?

**bogan** · 30th August 2011, 13:15

Originally Posted by imdying

Now that we can do too.... the same bike has an RFID key to remove the ignition lock. Remote start is pretty easy too, but we'd really need a modifications sub forum to get into that sort of detail....

Haha, working on that sort of project myself, but as you say...

Reckon you'll get much gains with a programable ignition? I assume it's for an RGV or similar?

**SimJen** · 30th August 2011, 13:16

I replaced the leaky coolant reservoir tank on my Ducati 996 with an aluminium one custom made by me.
Also wired up and installed an integrated tail light setup, so once I get around to making a tail tidy from laser cut aluminium it will make the rear end even sexier