My FZ1 and a few hours work over a couple days

After thinking hard of going back to the fairing and headlights I decided to stay as it is. I did get a few things knocked out. The first was a WTF mistake.
After having my new perreli Angel ST's mounted I tried to remove the glue from the old weights. It was giving me a hard time so I put some acitone on a rag to remove it, well it worked too well. Took the black finish off the wheel.... Screw it. I took it all off the smooth outside part of the wheel, used some Mothers and Brasso and went two tone.


Then I decided to run with it. My shop made pipe was cool but it being all black made me wanna try something new. I took my stock, dented pipe, and cur it down 7 inches ( at the dent) and salveged one baffle I welded back in, shot the strap in high heat black & welded it back together, also shot my front lower forks in black gun epoxy. Minor changes but I like it as of now.
Hell it was raining alot anyway.

 

I dunno........ It is missing sumthin........ I just can't put my finger on it.....

 

I need to get a belly pan built, would bring it all together I think.... I'm just too keyed up to ride it and not keep it in stages of build. I got other bikes for wrench time. (My CB750 deer slayer)

 

VFRH man you have some mad skills why don't you customize bikes full time?

 

Thats a sweet lookin Yammy. My neighbor has one and I'm jealous

 

he is gonna go into reality TV... starting a new show he is gonna build bikes and yell at his employees all the time then go outside and burn stuff, and play smash up derby with the nieghbors car....

 

Sounds fun can I work for ya?

 

I don't need a show do do any of that!
My day (midnite) job has medical & lets me carry a fire arm in all 50 states, so I will stick with it for now. The economy sux now just to up and quit. I got 14 years till a pention then would be the time to have a full time shop, just maybe not in Ohio.

 

This is an '04, '05 was the last year with carbs. I still prefer carbs cause it's what I know and this bike definately not short on power. Handle bar vibration is not bad at all, I did not dig the pullbach on the stock bars so I did change them out to a set of aluminum Pro Taper School boy low's in jet black...

Same center and rise but less pull back. They are alot thicker than the 7/8th steel bars and I tapped out the ends to accept the Yamaha FZ1 bar end weights. That in combo with the rubber mounted risers, it's a damn smooth ride.

 

I really like how you changed the look of your fizzy! I never liked the look of the stock front fairing on FZ1s. I came very close to buying an FZ1 but nothing ever materialized. I'm glad--a local guy was selling his '00 VFR and it had so many mods that I liked so I stayed in the Honda fam. Though fizzy's are good bikes.