Now that the foot pegs are handled, got to consider completing the lay down bed for the long trips.  Found this on close out for $17, may not be the ultimate solution but it allows a tryout of the reclining bed idea on a short trip.  Cheap enough not to get Yoda after me, anyway ....



Point is I can fill it up with a correctly formed piece of firm foam (or stuff it with clothes) to support my upper body completely, making a total relaxed body support right on up to my chin if need be.

Hindsight is always 20-20, if I had waited until I had the body support worked out then I could have ordered the correct handle bar the very first time.  Ah, the joys of sending stuff back ...

Let's see, what's new about the Lancer Mod bike.  

Hey, the second set of handle bars got here and they looked close enough to drill the holes in it to actually try them out.  Holes?  Squid bikes are all plasticky about the controls, no aluminum housings at all.  As such they don't clamp on well enough not to rotate on you unless you put a protruding plastic housing spud into a hole in the handle bar to keep the whole control module from rotating on you.

So, I pulled off $170 dollars worth of custom clip on weighted bar end neatness & coolness and replaced it with a $22 handle bar and a set of $9.00 grips.  They go up in the air and back to suit my stubby little arms exactly, so they are worth more to me than the original stuff any day.  

(plus I'll peddle the clip on stuff I just took off for more money than all my pretty ups and mods have cost me to date -- it's called "breaking even on the deal")



Now here is a pic without the old clip on bars cluttering up the shot.



I also went after the pants leg eating hot exhaust pipe using some fiberglass wrap from a boat place.



I also put some of the same on my Savage as it has eaten a set of pants or two over the years ....  stock exhaust on the Savage gets very hot and will require another layer of fiberglass wrap to insulate enough to quit melting cotton polyester blend pants.



So, I had a busy weekend and made some more incremental progress.  I have a brake bleeding job coming up (I had to disturb some hydraulic fittings moving the bars around) and I have a lot of tweeking and fine tuning to do over the next few weeks.

Oldfeller- some of the mentioned photos are not showing up, nor are links to photos..

Which one can be lowered a lot?

Ok, Justin -- I fixed the pics (I think)

Take a look and see if you can see them.

PS  that little bitty thing over the speedo is a 130 mph windscreen, your face and helmet are supposed to be right behind it if you have "good racing form" (according to the squiddites, anyway).

I wish I had the skinny little 19 year old body that could hide behind that little cowl screen after taking an "S" bend over the tank.