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The tail light is a standard bulb but the signals were LEDs. I got them on ebay originally but I've tried and failed to find that same tail light again. Similar turn signals can be found if you search 'Bullet Motorcycle Turn Signal'. Note, you need to switch out a relay or wire in a resistor...

Thanks! Yeah the only real down side is you have to left hand the throttle when you're using the starter, but I usually just kick it anyway.

Yeah no problem, here is one from the front. The switch is from an R6 but I think most of the Yamaha bikes and maybe other makes use the same one these days. Where I have it you can reach the kill switch pretty easily and you can reach the starter without too much trouble. It just took me a...

I cut it down from 24" to 21"

Here is a profile view and a top view. The hips still stick out a little, but imo it's not worth the trouble to take such a major bend out of the frame, and makes it look like a Yamaha instead of a Honda. I just chose the seat length I wanted and then cut and bent the frame to fit the seat hoop...

I can take some pictures tonight and I'll post them up here. As for the shocks, they mount to rubber gaskets, so a reasonable amount of torque applied will be eaten up by those rather than the strut binding. I only moved them about an inch inward, which if I remember my high school trig, is...

I was totally backwards on this, my rear tire is a 130/90-16. I think I listed the front tire size originally, my bad!

I bought it from Dime City here, but I did take a couple inches off to move my fender forward a bit. I peeled back the leather and cut the foam and aluminum base with a bandsaw. I wrapped the leather under the seat and used some 3M spray to stick it back. The screws are inserted from the top...

Here are a few pictures of the fit. It's really tight.

Yeah the clearances there are pretty tight. I don't think you'd be able to fit more much more tire than I have right now, I can snap some pictures tonight. The 4-cell Antigravity battery I used has worked really well for the size, but I do usually have to kick start it in the winter and on cold...

The tire in the original picture was the tire that came with the bike, I assume stock size. I had some minor issues with rubbing on the lowered seat pan, but nothing on the shocks. In my update above, the tire is a Duro HF904 130/90-16 (NOT 4.10-18 - see Edit 2). That tire is wider and larger...

It's been a while since my last post, so I thought I'd update on my progress. I've more or less completed the build. Since my last post, I've painted my rims and forks, replaced the tires, wirebrushed my gas cap, replaced the speedo, and changed the rear shocks. I replaced brake and clutch...

jdizon, I was surprised when I first tried, but it works quite well. At full charge I could probably crank it for at least 30 seconds before it runs down, maybe up to a minute.

Yeah exactly. We cut it to the shape of the new hoop and welded it straight on. Pretty much what you see is all there is, since the seat pan and battery box keep everything else clean.

I still have a ton I want to do to it. Painting the rims, getting more knobbly tires, custom downturned exhausts, smaller levers, longer rear shocks, some sort of front fender, a better paint job and a full re-wire are all in the future for this guy, but for now I just want to get it back out on...