Finished at Midnight!

Had to remove the tank to run the wiring harness to the front of the bike. Yamaha made a FINE looking engine when they designed the RoadStar. As good or better looking than an Evo or TC motor.

Here I am LATE last night connecting the brackets inside the fairing and connecting the headlight wiring.

Here's Charles mounting the windshield:

Video is being uploaded now... Hopefully it works, it's been uploading for LOOOONG time. Only 28Mb... wt?

it's ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!

Can anyone name that tune?

Finished up at around midnight. First road test will be this morning and then a ride up to Lima this afternoon. Should be a good 'shakedown'.

Once again, a big THANK YOU! to my brother-in-law Charles. He stayed still it was done last night and did all the electrical work. It would have never occured to me to pull 3 pieces of 14ga wire 6 ft long through a piece of heat shring tubing, but man, did it look good when we were done! I was going to use some crappy looking wire loom!

Another big THANK YOU! to Matt for always being there with supplies and hardware! ;-)

slowly making progress... 7 days til launch

Here's a Bill's Eye View of my new fairing. And below you will find a close up of the IPOD connector on this Sony Xplod head unit. This is not just an auxiliary in, it actually plugs into the Ipod connector (not the headphone jack) and the head unit can control the ipod. Pretty sweet.



I got my rear wheel back on tonight. Tomorrow I remove my tank and run my power wires from the battery up to the fairing. Also hope to get my crash bars mounted.

all that AND a free shirt

follow up to the previous post. After spending all that cash, they did give me a free Iron Pony T-Shirt. So I don't have to pay to advertise for them. ;-) I really DO like IP, I'm just bitchin' a little. ha!

Blue OUT!

should be GOLDEN Pony !!! $$$$$!!!

Yowza! I went about a Ben Franklin over what I planned at Iron Pony tonight. Their "in store" prices are WAY higher than their "on line" prices. No haggle either. The crash bar I wanted online is like $167... in store... $200! I ended up getting the FAT bars at the left for $215. Battery, I was thinking it would be $70..... cheapest one, $99. I got the best I could buy for $115. Throw in a couple other things such as a cable luber and lube... $370 out the door!

So I was bumming about spending all that cash and then got a call that my fairing was next door at my Father-in-Laws. Chuck got it all done and it was waiting . WOW! Chuck did a kick ass job and did it in a hurry! This thing ROCKS. Sony XPLOD marine grade head unit with IPOD connector, 2 Polk Audio 5.25" and 2 Polk Audio 4" speakers. NICE!

Thanks to Matt for making the aluminum trim/bracket for the stereo and supplying me with ideas and hardware... and Charles for putting it all together. You guys made this happen.

work work work...

I got two things done on the bike today.... jack and sh!t !!!

Got home from work and logged in and did some more work. Then when that was done, I made potato salad for a cookout at work. Then when that was done I worked on a website I am doing for a customer. I just finished and it's 12:45 in the A.M. I'm off to bed.

Iron Pony tomorrow for some parts!

Balancing Act of 2009

Dad and I (mostly Dad) mounted my new Metzler ME880 tonight.

Here's Dad watching the wheel go around on the balancer.

I still need to run the power wires for my fairing, install new rear brake pads, do a major detail job, fix my loose throttle lock, buy and install some crash bars/highway pegs, lube all my cables and ball ends... seems like the list keeps growing! Still need to get my battery too. We are making a trip to Iron Pony on Thursday. Cha ching!