And i thought my bike looked over loaded when i took her from CA to NY



the little speck at the bottom of the stairs

I got my 2k Savage a couple years ago with 9k miles on it. Now it's approaching 23k miles. And since we only have about five months of decent to half decent driving conditions up here it should be obvious that there's been some hard core, long mileage trips made. There's two trips from southern MN to Miami, FL and back as well as one from MN to N. Carolina and back.

The V-Star seat was medium easy to put on with the stock gas tank in place. With the Harley tank in place the front is even higher than the stock seat with the lift mod and it sits a bit further back. Since I've not wanted to give up my rear seat, the back of the V-Star seat sits up on the front of the back seat a bit making it even higher.

To mount the V-Star seat I made a squared off flat "U" shaped bracket that I pop riveted/construction adhesived to the bottom of the seat. I bent the seat mounts on the frame upwards perpendicular to the ground. Then you bolt through the bracket and the bolt holes in the frame mounts. I used the glue to hold the bracket in place while I trial-&-errored the placement relationship to the frame tabs, held in place with a couple of handy ratchet tie down straps. I use nuts and bolts to hold the seat which is tricky the first couple of times you need to pull the seat. Once you do it a couple times it's a snap, pudgy fingers and all.

Jack

I definitely want to know how this is going to be mounted

Received the Road King tank today. Will trial fitting it to an 87 frame either Sunday evening (when I get off work) or Monday before I actually install it on my 2000.

Just got done mocking the 87 frame with the Road King tank. Ya'll ain't gonna believe how easy this is gonna be to mount to the FireLizard.

Only mod I am really gonna have to do to the FireLizard is cut off these little doohickies and drill a hole.


The tank sitting on the 87 frame. Sorry about how dark the pics are, my garage ain't exactly well lighted.


Space between front of tank and neck. As you can see it's practically the same amount of space as between the stock tank and neck.


Side view with seats on. Front seat rides a little on the back of tank but all that does is give the seat mod we all talk about. Once again, sorry about how dark the pics are.


Another side view.


Top view with seat. (seat shifted a bit before I could get the picture)


I will have to make some spacers for the front as the tangs that the bolt will go through is wider than the FireLizard's back bone. Other than that the mod looks pretty much to be a straight forward swap. Even the seat bolt holes line up to the original mounting points.

Will try to get some better pics later but hopefully these will give you an idea.

Very cool, that looks good.

Clive W  

Sweeeeet!!  
Miles and miles and smiles of riding!!

I particularly like that you kept the police reflective stickers on there...

Just took a second look at the tank on the 87 frame, there will be NO PROBLEM with head clearance.

In the process of making a cap for that center hole.