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Willy waving

#1 Post by Nooj » Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:29 pm

Can't remember who it was, but someone on here wanted a list of what mods I've done. So.... hear it is:

Gilles Vario-bars over the top yoke
Cut down fairing to allow for higher bars
Black tint double bubble screen, also cut down
RSRV indicator/mirrors using Littlecheese's adaptor blocks
Cut down grabrail with Italian tricolour paint
BikeIt 'Force' mini LED indicators in old grabrail holes
Rengade air kit, big bore full exhaust system, chip and carbon cans
Oxford hot grips
Scottioler onto the front sprocket
'06 Tuono sprocket cover
Braided front brake and clutch lines
Four-pad calipers at the front
De-restriction done
15t sprocket
Gilles rearsets
Very naughty tiny number plate just above the rearshock
Custom LED tail/brake lights made by myself
Mikeo light smoke tail light lens
GSXR side stand modded to take Falco switch
Titanium disk, caliper, subframe, rearset and engine bolts
Quick release seat pins
CRG shorty levers
Braking wave disks, front and rear
Ohlins rear shock
Bef's can hangers
Motrax bar ends with carbon inserts
Bronze OZ wheels (nice!!)
HID headlight
Arrow steering damper
Stebel Compact Nautilus air horn
Custom rack to take Givi/Kappa hard paniers
Beowulf radiator guards
NWS carbon fibre hugger
Carbon fibre centre piece (between the radiators)
Tuono stainless oil tank (powder coated satin black)
Home made copper oil pipe from Tuono tank to Falco cooler
Tuono coolant bottle
Tuono carbon fibre coolant tank cover
Tuono carbon fibre front mudguard
Tuono carbon fibre radiator side covers
Tuono carbon fibre coil covers and crash bungs

Next week's project, provided the bits turn up in time:
Black Rizoma billet fluid reservoires all round, with Ducati Hypermoard billet brackets for the front brake and clutch pots to sit on (been waiting on one bracket for over a month now :smt013 )
Tuono rear brake set up (master cylinder, pedal and brackets).

May's projects are:
Airtech Tuono bellypan currently being tweeked to fit round the Renegade exhaust system, needs a bit more rubbing down and some paint
LED indicators built into my paniers for touring
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Re: Willy waving

#2 Post by TwinNut » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:31 pm

:smt002
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#3 Post by Aladinsaneuk » Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:23 pm

you forgot to paint it black to make it fast

(funnily enough I am entering a frantic time as i work on a couple of new bits...)


Let's face it, you wouldn't go to a nurse to get good advice on a problem with a Falco - you'd choose an Engineer or a mechanic...

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#4 Post by Taper One » Fri May 01, 2009 12:36 am

Is that all......... :smt015
















:smt003 :smt003 :smt003 :smt003
Dedication/Love/Vision or what?
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#5 Post by Viking » Fri May 01, 2009 4:04 am

Taper One wrote:Dedication/Love/Vision or what?
Insanity?
It's the V-twin thing. There's just something about it that inline-4s don't have at all, and V-4s don't have enough of.
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#6 Post by paddyz1 » Fri May 01, 2009 6:08 am

Thats a BIG list


Are you small by any chance? :smt002

































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#7 Post by shootmyscoot » Fri May 01, 2009 8:23 am

those are just words with out pics?

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#8 Post by Nooj » Fri May 01, 2009 5:57 pm

Pics can be found HERE on AF1.

I wasn't ACTUALLY seriously willy waving, someone here DID ask for a list of my mods (Falcomille maybe?? Can't remember) :smt003

Black? Very late nineties to have a black bike, I've moved on, metallic sludge bronze is the new black :smt004

Bars over the yokes are soooooooper comfy, certainly NOT Hardley Movingson like! It's made the steering extremely twitchy as the yokes have had to be lowered past the last ring for the bars to fit (hence the damper). If anything it rides like a VFR, but with more performance, and a gazillion times the character and attitude :smt066

Soon the transformation will be complete! :smt032
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#9 Post by beckh » Fri May 01, 2009 7:23 pm

Looks sweeeeeet :smt001
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#10 Post by Aladinsaneuk » Fri May 01, 2009 7:32 pm

the scary thing is we have done similar mods - and ended up with bikes that look so different

(maybe i need a hacksaw??)

i dare not do that kind of list as i have a wife that reads forums.....


Let's face it, you wouldn't go to a nurse to get good advice on a problem with a Falco - you'd choose an Engineer or a mechanic...

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#11 Post by TwinNut » Fri May 01, 2009 10:43 pm

:smt002
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#12 Post by Falcomille » Sat May 02, 2009 5:50 am

Excellent looking bike Nooj, and thanks for the list... Phew!
But, what I really find the most intregueing mod... is the rear number plate. It seems to change the letters depending on the angle you view it from. Or is that my imagination?
Look forward to seeing it in a few weeks.
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#13 Post by minime » Sat May 02, 2009 7:15 pm

Hehe, I like it you also listed the removal of the restriction. :smt002
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#14 Post by SL Nivek » Sun May 03, 2009 11:31 am

Hi Nooj.

Where did you get your can hangers from mate.

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#15 Post by Nooj » Sun May 03, 2009 8:32 pm

Can hangers were from Bef over on the AF1 forum, he made a few of them a couple of years ago. Not sure what he's up to now, doesn't seem to post any more.

The numberplate is magic :smt002

The RSVR mirrors do use Littlecheese's adapter blocks, they wouldn't fit wthout them. Visability isn't great, but it's no worse for me than the original mirrors were.
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