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06-10-20, 09:25 AM | #21 |
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06-10-20, 04:29 PM | #22 |
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Mine has blue wheels and they are staying that way !
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Hope you can keep them that way. The generally rough finish on the spokes and wheel centres of my 2018 AL8 is ideal for getting dirt ingrained, (so on the assumption yours is the same) bluey / browny / grey will probably be easily achieved and much harder to remedy if you're not careful. For that reason I'd already toyed with the idea of getting them powder coated at some point as a much better finish is guaranteed and black is always a strong contender on any bike (so much easier than trying to get a colour match to the frame in the case of my SV). Quote:
I suspect I'm not alone in this, hence the relatively modern phenomenon of the roaring trade in "tail tidies" . I would FAR rather manufacturers just tucked the number plate under the rear light like they generally did through most of the 70s / 80s / 90s..... To take a bike launched the year before I started riding in 1986 (and still made today) The GSXR750: 2003 GSXR750 : Number plate neatly and unobtrusively tucked under the rear light, in a manner pretty similar to all of the previous GSXRs going back to 1985. I mean why would you ever even consider doing anything else? 2015 GSXR750 WTF??
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06-10-20, 10:02 PM | #24 |
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'Number plate neatly and unobtrusively tucked under the rear light, in a manner pretty similar to all of the previous GSXRs going back to 1985. I mean why would you ever even consider doing anything else?'
Yes, but they had more bodywork and more of a mudguard over the rear wheel then, but I agree , bring that back. It's the current fashion of having nothing much over the rear wheel that is the problem. Use that space over the rear wheel and have some storage space as far as I am concerned. |
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Ditching the tail actually also saved some weight (about half a Kg), which was another reason it felt worth doing to me (in conjunction with some other weight reductions). Depends what you are used to I suppose, having done most of my riding since 2004 on KTM singles, I'm used to bikes around 40Kg lighter !
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07-10-20, 01:26 PM | #27 |
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My AL7 has blue tank with white stripe and black wheels, I could have had blue wheels but black is easier to keep looking decent. I like the slightly later ( mine is 2016 ) model with red frame though.... think it really makes bike look better.
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I give you the Yamaha YZF R125:
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I seem to remember reading years ago it was due to a German law that said the number plate has to be within a certain distance of the rear axle (or summat) . Personally I suspect legislation is involved somewhere as I cannot for the life of me fathom why on earth else Yamaha would make such an otherwise sleek looking sports 125 and then add that utterly ludicrous tail
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08-10-20, 07:56 PM | #29 |
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'I'm guessing that this little sporting Yamaha wasn't uppermost in your mind when you said that???'
As I said earlier ' It's the current fashion of having nothing much over the rear wheel that is the problem.' More bodywork and more of a mudguard would be better ,but removing what little is there for a so called 'tail tidy' doesn't improve matters , in my opinion. (but as I usually say -people can do what they like with their own bikes ) |
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