07-17-2013, 12:13 AM
(07-16-2013, 10:58 PM)Flynbulldog_imp Wrote: To me it's such a shame to see all that ballast on a supersport.
It's a sportbike from the day and they aren't supposed to be laden with heavy unsightly touring junk.
It's just my own sense of what the bike should be but god, tell your buddy to take all that cheap crap off the bike and give it some respect.
Flyn, you have to keep in mind that for most of its life, my friend actually used the bike for touring, not too unlike someone adding hardbags and windshield to a new CB1100 -- not to mention, other than the windshield, the 'touring junk' is period correct, not much different than what a lot of people did to their Super Sports back in the day.
Myself, yes, I would get rid of the rack/backrest, and after riding the bike, I told him the windshield was doing more harm than good from a function standpoint -- it flips the wind right smack into your chops with the added bonus that it creates a lot of helmet rattling.
It could be worse; at one point this same bike had a Windjammer fairing and those cheap little hard cases on it! In the end it's his bike and I guess he will own it as he sees fit.
