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Title: hand made forward controls Post by Miguel on 04/05/05 at 16:04:49 I saw in photos on main page that are some savage's forward controls that look like are hand made, I hope that any body can upload some photos about how to do it. Thanks in advance. Miguel Fuerteventura Canary Islands Spain |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by reeko on 04/06/05 at 02:19:32 I'm going to let make forward controls for my Savage.. I'll have draught in electronic picture format soon.. so I can post it here than... |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by Miguel on 04/06/05 at 22:52:16 Will be much apreciated. Thanks a lot. Miguel Fuerteventura |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by bobo383 on 05/06/05 at 18:33:29 How did this wind up? I'm thinking about making some myself. You can't give a redneck a welder... |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by Oklahoma_Mike on 05/06/05 at 18:50:17 bobo383 wrote:
diddo on the welding a redneck thing or something like that. Bobo was a great day today or what? 5/6/05 8) |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by bobo383 on 05/06/05 at 22:57:27 Beautiful! We just got in from riding (12:47am) and I'm having same coffee. Been reading about the seat lift alot today, I think I'm going to give it a shot this weekend. |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by Oklahoma_Mike on 05/07/05 at 06:20:13 You talking about the spacer thing in the front? 8) |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by bobo383 on 05/07/05 at 09:45:48 Yeah, jacking up the front end. The seat wants to dump me off toward the tank right now. |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by Greg_650 on 05/07/05 at 09:55:45 Don't forget that the Savage seat is plastic pan supported by rubber mounts on the frame...not by the front mount or the rear bolts. If you jack up the front mount alone then the seat will be bent in "more of" a U shape when you sit on it. Sure the front will be higher, but the rest will bend back down on the frame because of the plastic pan. Check it out. If that is the way you want it, okay, but you may want to add more rubber in other places too. |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by Oklahoma_Mike on 05/08/05 at 00:20:21 bobo383 wrote:
I had to meet a buddy of mine at the bar after work Friday, yes we had to meet at the bar. So we could then leave together to go pick up his HD we went back to the bar and went cruzing. It was awesome on the highway we had a small pack of 6 HD pull up on us and asked us to pull off so we parked in a parking lot the group started walking taward us and walked right past his bike and went stright to mine. They were all clueless we all shared a beer and Chated about the Savage 7 diehard HD riders and one lone savage and I got the compliments. When we left I led the pack back to the bar. It was a great time |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by WD on 05/08/05 at 01:41:42 I can't keep the customers off my bike at work. >:( Big sign that says: Employee bikes, STAY OFF! I probably get 20-30 people a day staring at the bike and trying to figure out what it is... Something about the Savage just seems to draw out the big V-twin riders. Miguel, making the forward controls isn't hard, I've made them for other small Japanese cruisers before. Hardest part is extending the shift linkage, which likely will be even more tricky where you live. Not sure how prevalent hardware/auto parts stores are in the islands. When I lived in Andalusia, I remember they were few and far betwen. My recontoured seat is worse than the stocker about sliding me forward. >:( Come payday, I'm doing the Sluggo and Greg modification. Sprung solo seat. Have been wanting to for about 5 years. I wonder if the seat pan on the bike now will make a good Frisbee or skeet target? Eventhough it makes an "iffy" seat, it has to be good for something... unless someone wants the seat as is... -WD |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by bobo383 on 05/08/05 at 20:09:15 Greg_650 wrote:
True. I could feel it flexing today. time to add more ribbed rubber for my chubby (seat). |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by Reelthing on 05/09/05 at 04:55:50 bobo383 wrote:
Bobo, when you have the seat off you can see the two flat spots on the frame about half way back - if you clean those real well the 1/2" square rubber stick on funiture feet did the job for me - I used a #7 rubber stopper for the lift - looks factory. |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by bobo383 on 05/09/05 at 19:13:31 Oh how right you are about the #7 stoppers - looks like it was made that way now. Thanks for the stick-on furniture pad/spacer tip as well - I couldn't find half-inchers but found 3/4" - work fine. MUCH MO BETTA! |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by Savage_Rob on 05/10/05 at 05:40:31 I'm gonna have to try that too. |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by Red_Wine on 05/10/05 at 10:01:32 bobo383 wrote:
Pics please... ;) don't leave us in the dark.... RW |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by bobo383 on 05/10/05 at 20:28:48 OK, but sleepy right now. How about tomorrow... |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by reeko on 05/13/05 at 07:37:02 sorry but I still don't have it maked.. as soon I'll have it I'll post a pictures :) |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by bobo383 on 05/19/05 at 19:03:37 Here's the #7 stoppers, drilled for the 6mm bolts: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/bobo383/savageseatmod.jpg Pardon the old GS1000 in the background... |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by WD on 05/19/05 at 23:15:23 No apology needed, the GS100 was an absolute street scorcher in it's day. We've got a few as parts bikes at work. -WD |
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Title: Re: hand made forward controls Post by Greg_650 on 05/20/05 at 06:33:45 Here is an old photo of the seat bushings when I raised my seat. I used 1/4" thick rubber which I cut to match the size of the stock pieces. I put 2 round pieces (1/2") on the front and one rectangle piece on the rear (1/4") and glued them together with Weldwood contact cement. Once that cement dries they won't come apart....messy, but good stuff. That supported the pan on the frame pretty good. http://home.comcast.net/~gmdinusa/Spacers01web.jpg |
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