I'm not a lunatic, everyone else is. :P
Name : Justin Kayce (but my friends call me Russ) [roll]
Location : Japan [bow_down]
Bike(s) (if any) 01 Ducati Monster S4 [evil]
How long you've been riding : New rider [moto]
Anything else you'd like to share : Not at the moment [coffee]
Sorry drank all the beer and ate all the doughnuts [drink]
welcome to the board spittmonkey.
glad you could make it.
Welcome Justin, whereabouts in Japan are you?
Hope you are having fun with your S4! [thumbsup] [moto]
(where'd my [drink] go???)
Okinawa Japan presently
Couple of pics:
http://www.ggok.com/bbs/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2581.0;attach=8230 (http://www.ggok.com/bbs/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2581.0;attach=8230)
http://www.ggok.com/bbs/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2581.0;attach=8232 (http://www.ggok.com/bbs/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2581.0;attach=8232)
Took me a sec to figure out how to do img
(http://www.ggok.com/bbs/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2581.0;attach=8230)
(http://www.ggok.com/bbs/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2581.0;attach=8232)
Well, I've made some changes, I'll let you decide if they are for the better.
(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/Spittmonkey/parts.jpg)
(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/Spittmonkey/DucatTemple005r3.jpg)
(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/Spittmonkey/IMG_1778r.jpg)
(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/Spittmonkey/IMG_1745r.jpg)
Nice work! Personally I love the green and gold everywhere but the forks. For some reason I don't like anything but anodizing on fork legs.
It looks great [thumbsup]
The forks were part of my initial powdercoat expirement in a custom oven a friend of mine threw together. Thus the different shade. Everything was done in my carport with a Crafstman 175 tool kit and some odds and ins. I stripped all the parts by hand with the exception of frame. All the gold is PC (cause Okinawa has some bad corrosion issues) All the dark green is a custom paint that I made using various leftover paints from a friends shop (I was going for Matrix look). During the rebuild I threw in a new mods, ECU, ect. It's been fun.
I don't like the green forks either really.
I'm looking for the Ohlins FG 845 forks, but they have been discontinued and I can't find them anywhere. I looked at some showa tins as well and even though about going with a SBK convo. The final outcome? Cyclecat DBR 23 kit, and a future guts replacement for the current forks. I may just get some matching forks and work them over, I just don't like the stock silver.
You can send the fork legs out to be anodized if you want them a different color. Some folks have also used GSXR forks and other front ends - some of which come in gold -- just a few more options to think about [thumbsup]
sending out is probably out of the option being that I'm living in Japan lol. If anything I would go for the better SBK forks.