Well, I'm back. Quit working on my Street Tracker project til I could get the pipe and seat from Ryca. Finally, Ryan said the parts may be in next week so I brought the bike back to the garage for more work.
The big bugaboo with the Ryca Street Tracker (and Scrambler) bikes were that they still used the Cafe Racer rearsets. In order to mount the foot pegs in a more "conventional" position the exhaust must be changed. Since there were no aftermarket high pipes available, as far as I know, the only options were to leave the forward controls or go to rearsets. The few "mid controls" that I've seen looked kinds Rube Goldberg, with metal plates or some such. I was looking for a more elegant solution.
Some of the older bikes, from 70's and earlier had one piece foot peg/sidestand assemblies. I took the assembly off my LT2 Yamaha Enduro and did a fit check on the Savage. Once you get the pipe out of the way you can see where it might work.
The Savage has a twin loop frame under the engine. All you would have to do is weld on some nuts to the frame to match the holes in the plates on the footpeg assembly.
I ordered an assembly from Ebay for a different Yamaha Enduro model. This has the serrated metal toothed pegs which are more in keeping with the Street Tracker theme. Also the pegs fold. That is a good thing as even with the extended shocks in the rear the Savage is pretty close to the ground.
Minor detail is that the frame tubes would be too far apart so you would have to cut the foo tpeg assembly and weld in an extension, which could be as simple as a tube with an I.D. to match the size of the cross piece.
An additional bonus is there is a sidestand built into the assembly. I think that some have had "issues" with the Ryca sidestand.
What do you all think of my brilliant idea?
John in Kalifornia