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Midnightrider Serious Thumper Offline Alliance Member Posts: 3244 Winston Salem, NC	She's ready to ride! 08/30/09 at 07:23:18 After a month of rubbing and polishing and scrounging parts I've got er ready. I added the Supertrapp and the Flyscreen. This bike had set outside for 2 years uncovered, but she had only 4,700 on the clock and the guy had changed the oil in her. Thats why I bought her. I knew she would clean up nicely.
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Midnightrider Serious Thumper Offline Alliance Member Posts: 3244 Winston Salem, NC	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #1 - 08/30/09 at 07:24:57
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danibugg Junior Member Offline Posts: 59 PNW Gender:	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #2 - 08/30/09 at 07:25:18 Pretty! Mine also withstood a fair amount of abuse, I wish I could get my aluminum covers looking as nice as yours!
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #3 - 08/30/09 at 07:34:02 You put some elbow grease in that. Good results. Now you need a fork brace. Stock, it needs the brace. If you add power & start playing in turns, youll really feel a difference in the handling with a brace on it.
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Midnightrider Serious Thumper Offline Alliance Member Posts: 3244 Winston Salem, NC	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #4 - 08/30/09 at 07:36:45 Justin who makes an aftermarket fork brace?
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Toymaker Serious Thumper Offline Dragon Rider Posts: 1534 Granite Falls, NC Gender:	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #5 - 08/30/09 at 07:38:32 Looking really good.... Tkat makes a good brace
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Reply #6 - 08/30/09 at 08:03:54

Midnightrider wrote on 08/30/09 at 07:23:18:

http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo2/mwshelton/100_0672.jpg After a month of rubbing and polishing and scrounging parts I've got er ready. I added the Supertrapp and the Flyscreen. This bike had set outside for 2 years uncovered, but she had only 4,700 on the clock and the guy had changed the oil in her. Thats why I bought her. I knew she would clean up nicely.

How do you clean galvanized parts like the spokes and the inside ring of the rear pulley? I tried and I cannot get them to look good.

And by the way, I got the Dunlop K555 too on the the rear, it makes the bike look real PHAT from behind

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Reply #7 - 08/30/09 at 08:14:32

I used Turtle Wax Chrome polish on my rims and a lot of elbow grease. The Turtle wax will not scratch the chrome. The spokes weren't that bad thank goodness. There's nothing I know of you can do to a galvanized spoke except replace them all with stainless steel which is expensive. If you start rubbing a galvanized spoke the galvanizing comes off and you really have problems then. On the engine cases I start with Semichrome polish followed by the Turtle Wax chrome polish and a lot of elbow grease. Polishing an engine case is a labor of love.

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Mr. Hyde Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 565 Kingston, Ontario, Canada Gender:	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #8 - 08/30/09 at 08:41:59 Rider - you did a great job, the bike looks really good. Superbrace also sells a nice fork brace but it's more expensive than the Tkat.
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boofer Ex Member	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #9 - 08/30/09 at 21:22:20 Midnightrider, I would put that one on a chain and wear it around my neck. Much too purty to ride! Good job. Boofer
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FreeSpirit Serious Thumper Offline Joy is my Compass ! Posts: 3823 North Georgia Gender:	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #10 - 08/30/09 at 21:36:23 Great looking bike!! You have the Suzuki Engine Guard on it dont you? Do you like it?
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Midnightrider Serious Thumper Offline Alliance Member Posts: 3244 Winston Salem, NC	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #11 - 08/30/09 at 21:44:31 Free Spirit the engine guard was on the bike when I bought it. It looks like a Suzuki engine guard so I'm assuming it is. Thanks for the compliment.
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mick Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Hell-bound Posts: 7323 Dayton Oregon Gender:	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #12 - 08/31/09 at 01:10:26 Very nice job, you should be proud,on a scale of one to ten a 10
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PerrydaSavage Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Riding "The Rock"! Posts: 3522 Republic of Newfoundland Gender:	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #13 - 08/31/09 at 01:56:33 Awesome job on a Bike that was left outside and neglected for a couple of years ... she looks brand new! What year? Looks like could be an '03?
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drharveys - FSO Serious Thumper Offline Greetings from San Luis del Norte! Posts: 1776 St Louis MO Gender:	Re: She's ready to ride! Reply #14 - 08/31/09 at 02:46:31 Like Mrs. Doc said the last time I had a tux on, "You clean up pretty good!" Looks great!
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