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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1209 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #705 - 06/22/22 at 14:56:20 Hefty stuff to try to bend!
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1209 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #706 - 06/22/22 at 14:58:50 When you don't have a full blown press brake with the correct radius tooling, you improvise... (sorry it came out blurry)
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1209 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #707 - 06/22/22 at 15:02:09 After some minor tweaking of the angle, it fits without much air gap and no rocking. The tricky part comes next. Cutting the groove to get it to sit down on the tank over the weld seams. Probably going to use a dremel with a burr tool.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1209 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #708 - 06/24/22 at 16:26:53 Front end Friday! My first look at the silver and black front end. I went with black accents - bars, turn signal brackets, fork brace, and last will be the axle spacers. I may even paint the caliper black as well. Just enough black to accent all that silver! Me likey!!
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Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build
Reply #709 - 06/28/22 at 11:38:34

I finally did something about mirrors. After acquiring two Savages, and a bunch of parts, I have yet to be able to mount a stock mirror to my tracker. I have one good mirror, but every one of the several mounts are broken in one way or the other. Searching high and low for some decent sized mirrors that wouldn't break the bank proved harder than I thought. Most are only sold as one. I like symmetry, so I wanted a pair. Most quality mirrors start at $80-90 and just go up from there. I found these on Revzilla, and they were only $90 for the pair. I am pleasantly surprised at the quality! All aluminum, black anodized. Hopefully the anodize holds up in the sun. Improperly sealed anodize fads in UV light pretty quickly. A good sign the manufacturer was either cutting corners in the plating process, or just done improperly. Time will tell, but so far I am happy with the look. They even come with adapters for either 7/8" or 1" diameter bars.

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'87 LS650h Savage Street Tracker
'86 LS650g Savage (parts bike)
'81 Kawasaki KZ750e ELR tribute

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #710 - 06/28/22 at 13:33:30 Nicely pleasing to the eye.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1209 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #711 - 06/28/22 at 14:15:22 real world problems. Up, or down? Here is up
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1209 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #712 - 06/28/22 at 14:17:13 And here is down. I might try fitting them inside the switch controls/throttle, but I may improve the view of my elbows being that far inward. I will have to sit on it to see where the best visibility is.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1209 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #713 - 06/28/22 at 14:27:57 The machining detail on the back looks pretty cool, too!
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Gary_in_NJ Serious Thumper Offline LS650 Cafe Racer Posts: 2630 Amongst the Twisty Roads	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #714 - 06/28/22 at 15:57:11 Does down contact the tank? I prefer up, this way your eyes aren't diverted too far from the road to look in the mirrors. Down looks cool; up is safer.
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ohiomoto Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2706 WTF is JOG?	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #715 - 06/28/22 at 17:00:43 Down is so cool...it is not cool and never was cool...especially on a tracker! IMO of course. haha
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