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Leon, I felt the same too. It looks good when the parts are in the bike though. It's a small part that is actually noticeable. I personally thought blue or gray but whatever. Once the bike is finished I can ALWAYS change that. I think and feel the same way.

And yeah, sucks about the bassanni not fitting up. I HATE to cut the mount and reweld it but perhaps, for now, I can get a piece to work between foot peg mount and it won't look so bad.

Also, those are not my bikes. I have only four bikes. The ninja is my friends. He has a custom stretch on it. Planning on USD front end and other things. This is my friends shop. I have just done a few things on the bike. I polished the aluminum.

My other KZ I am going to do completely on my own because I see its not that impossible and I will Be even more proud of my bike.

Doubledub, it's an LTD wheel that has a skinny tire on it. No worries. Ill put you on a regimen of carrot juice and your eyesight will get better.
I'm waiting for River Road and the Grafton Boys to comment. Just can't wait for the silver arch trip next year, planning on running that bike in to the ground. After all she wasn't raised to be no Trailer Queen.

So I just woke up, wife goes to mailbox and a package from Hawaii, Kapahulu, is in the mail. ???
Going to open it now.

Wow! Thanks man!
Either that or maybe you are trying to tell me I'm nuts for taking all the time and effort, $$$$ to restore restore an old dog to more than its former glory. Rofl. Thanks man!, you didn't have to do that. My wife grabbed one of your cards and said,"He's cute.", thanks a lot. Lol
But seriously, thanks for both the pipe and the nuts. Now I have to come up with plan to mount the pipe without cutting the mount on the pipe. It'd be a crime to do that IMHO.
I would love to buy property there and when I figure the whole thing out, I will. You'll be my go to man.

OK guys, now ideas. Who thinks I should modify the pipe to install it?
Who thinks I should modify a bracket to somehow connect to the frame?
What are your ideas? How to go about doing them.
I have a few ideas but I don't know. Was thinking of doing an aluminum bracket from footpeg hole and somehow having it grab the mount on the pipe while holding it from moving around. Maybe I just need to find someone with a bassani that fits LTD's and fab up a piece to weld on pipe and cut old mount off. I don't really want to do that for some reason. Sentimental?

Mannnn I thought it was bike parts.....you got me.....LOL

4TheKZ1000 wrote: Mannnn I thought it was bike parts.....you got me.....LOL

Yeah, but if it doesn't get done right? That is what my concern was. Better a piece made to accomodate the pipe than cutting the strap and fabricating a new one right? Guess I don't know the right people. My welding skills are none existent.

they sell some clean 1'-2'or 3' x 1" pieces of flat aluminum at smaller hardware stores...i used about 2 ' by the time i got the right 6" piece bent just right...it has compound angles to go from the passenger peg to the pipe mount hole....i got some cool aluminum allen screws and self locking nuts ,washers and the final product looked nice...the compound angles/bends were pretty hard to hand bend but some vise grips , rags ,hammer and bench vise ,drills,files,sander/grinder,and they came out clean....i drilled my mount holes on the last few tries first before bending and filing and rounding the ends,before they were breaking at the ends when i would drill last

Nice high res pic, I zoomed in and yes, it looks nice. Mine is a bit different though cause it's going to the frame spot and not the actual footpeg hole. On the Vance pipe there is enough material that I just dremeled the spit out of it and then bolted up. I'll figure it out shortly. I still have other
fish to fry.

don't cut on the pipe.

fab a bracket,
got any pics of what your working with i can come up with a clean solution.

leon

Ok, will do.
I guess the next stage will be paint and Corbin saddle. Going to send gauges out to the guy at z1enterprises unless you guys know of a better place. Order a few more parts including a Z1 fender.
What do you guys think of the Z1tail and light as opposed to stock? Would that be heresy? I kind of font like mixing and matching too much but I do live the tail and light, well just about all of the stuff on the z1 save the flexy frame.

Stay tuned for the video to be posted sometime today.