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mike that would be fantastic!

do you know how the rack comes from under the seat?

as its only going to be used once a year i dont want to alter the fairing.


cheers mate

hi all would anyone be so kind to take a picture of where the grab rail or rack attaches on the storm? i want to either buy a second hand grab rail and alter it to a rack, or just make a rack myself. looking at some pics it seems to come up under the seat above the rear cowl. many thanks in advance

i did the same as wicky


i did them satin black but didnt bother with the lacquer, i figured if i didnt get it right and it started too corrode under the lacquer it was a big job to put right.

cheers chaps..

looks like my design was flawed lol.

least it didnt cost much and i got paid for doing it while we had nowt to do

hi all i am currently in the process of altering a stock 16ltr tank. now the welding is complete i have filled the tank from completely empty. has anyone ever filled one of these tanks from bone dry before? if so can you remember what you managed to get in it? i have got 16.5 ltrs in, which consider...

thanks chaps !!!

thats cleared it up... gunna try some avons

Mike.

Never used avons before... What they like for agressive riding?

My mates running dunlop sportsmarts on his ktm 950, done a trackday at cadwell, 10 days tour of the
Pyrenees a few rides here and there and he rekons they will last him this year?

Don't like the price of the dunlops tho lol.

hi all i know this will have been done to death, but im struggling to choose my next boolers! i currently run bt014s on the storm and i rate them apart from the fact the rear wears too quickly. the others ive looked at are bt021 bt016 michelin pilot power 2ct dunlop sport smarts all of them get mixe...

got a bid in on this selby aint far from me !

Here you go fella.

I've used these settings with good results, I've also got a hagon rear shock, 3mm spacer and dropped the yokes 6mm.

http://www.ablett.jp/bikes/vtr/vtr_sus.htm

Mate... Do a search on the net for firestorm forks or firestorm fork upgrade. I found an excellent blog, basically I've used this as the guy explained everything Roger at revolution told him he does to the storm forks :) Iirc the guy was in japan and roger was emailing all his answers. Grinding the ...

linear K techs in mines with 10 wt oil ... internal spacer cut down and rebound taper shoulder ground off...



works perfect

where in the uk are you pal ?

if your near barnsley you can borrow my abba type stand ..

failing that i could be persuaded to fabricate one for you in return for beer tokens


mark

lower rad mount

Thanks for the replys chaps

I'll keep looking for a 19ltr on eBay otherwise I'll expand one using the benny hedges method