Spittmonkey enters the room

[spittmonkey]

I'm not a lunatic, everyone else is. 

Name : Justin Kayce (but my friends call me Russ) 
Location : Japan 
Bike(s) (if any) 01 Ducati Monster S4 
How long you've been riding : New rider  [moto]
Anything else you'd like to share : Not at the moment 

Sorry drank all the beer and ate all the doughnuts 

[herm]

welcome to the board spittmonkey.

glad you could make it.

[somegirl]

Welcome Justin, whereabouts in Japan are you?

Hope you are having fun with your S4! [moto]

(where'd my  go???)

[spittmonkey]

Okinawa Japan presently

[spittmonkey]

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=8232                           

[spittmonkey]

Took me a sec to figure out how to do img

[spittmonkey]

Well, I've made some changes, I'll let you decide if they are for the better.

[spittmonkey]

[bikepilot]

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.

[CDChase1981]

It looks great 

[spittmonkey]

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.

[bikepilot]

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 

[spittmonkey]

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.