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10-05-06, 07:44 PM

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northwind · 10-05-06, 07:50 PM

The low level can suits that perfectly... Gives it a long, low, brooding look like all the best 7/11s. It's odd, I wouldn't have said it looks jacked up. Maybe I've got used to mine...

How you can tell it's done right is that most of the changes you've just made don't leap out and hit you- they're easy on the eye, because they're just right. Still don't like the clocks though

10-05-06, 07:58 PM

The gixxer shock has a softer / smaller spring so brought the back end down too far. I used jack up plates to gain the gap again. That would be why it doesn't look high.

I am about to order new headlight brackets. The hope is to have the lights slightly lower and further forward this will allow me to attach some sort of wind shield over the clocks. Think it would look good from the front and from the rider position then.

northwind · 10-05-06, 08:12 PM

Ah, that'd make sense. I think I high rear would mess up the look, for what it's worth, it's solid and purposeful looking as it is, it'd probably lose that a little. That was what made me like the SV in the first place, too many modified bikes lose it- mine has, I think. Yours has magnified it

I bet you 10p it looks less good with a screen. If it were mine, I'd do the clocks in black and leave it totally naked I think. But that's just me.

10-05-06, 07:50 PM	#32
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	The low level can suits that perfectly... Gives it a long, low, brooding look like all the best 7/11s. It's odd, I wouldn't have said it looks jacked up. Maybe I've got used to mine... How you can tell it's done right is that most of the changes you've just made don't leap out and hit you- they're easy on the eye, because they're just right. Still don't like the clocks though __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed"

10-05-06, 08:12 PM	#34
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	Ah, that'd make sense. I think I high rear would mess up the look, for what it's worth, it's solid and purposeful looking as it is, it'd probably lose that a little. That was what made me like the SV in the first place, too many modified bikes lose it- mine has, I think. Yours has magnified it I bet you 10p it looks less good with a screen. If it were mine, I'd do the clocks in black and leave it totally naked I think. But that's just me. __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed"

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10-05-06, 07:58 PM	#33
Stig Guest Posts: n/a	The gixxer shock has a softer / smaller spring so brought the back end down too far. I used jack up plates to gain the gap again. That would be why it doesn't look high. I am about to order new headlight brackets. The hope is to have the lights slightly lower and further forward this will allow me to attach some sort of wind shield over the clocks. Think it would look good from the front and from the rider position then.