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mxracer728 said:
nice bike man, only thing im not likin is the few gold parts, ie: the chain guide, skidplate, and clamps. otherwise it looks awesome
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Yeah, I wasn't too sure about the gold either and was planning on black originally. But, I got a good deal on the forks and they came with gold clamps so I debated on it and finally decided to go with the gold skidplate and chain guide to tie it all together. I was skeptical about it at first but once it was all together I liked it. Now that it's all together I wouldn't have done it any other way. But, to each his own.



About the only thing I'm not too pleased with is the White Bros. R4 pipe. I love the sound but it didn't fit right with the Sik50 frame and hit the subframe so I had to make a little drop bracket for the rear mount. It works fine and is solid so I guess I can live with it but it drops the pipe down lower than I would have liked asthetically.



Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I got everyting finished last night and got it started. I think it took three kicks to light her up the first time and it idled perfectly after just a few blips of the throttle. After the first time though, it statrted first kick. I didn't really get a chance to ride it though because of the rain but I just slowly ran it up and down the driveway a few times to check the clutch engagement and just basically because I couldn't help myself. I can't wait until it dries up enough to get this thing broken in and see how it runs. Will this damn rain ever stop? :cry:
 
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That bikes sick!
 
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KAOS said:
on the pipe just space it out from the frame with a spacer behind the mount and use a longer bolt as it aint the pipes falt its the frames they all vary and i run into the same problem as you did alot
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yeah i had the same problem, i had a bunch of washers, but now i made a spacer, and it solved my problem for the most part.
 
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KAOS said:
on the pipe just space it out from the frame with a spacer behind the mount and use a longer bolt as it aint the pipes falt its the frames they all vary and i run into the same problem as you did alot
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Ah hell, now you tell me :lol: J/K Actually i did a bit of both. I made my drop bracket out of 1/4" aluminum with two holes 3/4" center to center. The top hole mounts to the sub-frame with the supplied bolt and I threaded the lower hole to accept an 8mm bolt for the exhaust and then added a nut on the back so that it is sorta double nutted for security. So basically the exhaust is spaced out 1/4" and down 3/4". Of course this meant that the exhaust now touches my new right side number plate so I then made a neat little stand-off bracket that keeps the plastic from touching and melting. It all works but I may look at it again and see if I can just space it out and not down. Thanks for the tip.
 
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