Thursday, July 10, 2008

A Little Bling Bling!

This week I’ve been doing some cosmatic and hardwear changes to my bike. First thing is sow 2 badges I bought to my jacket. Ohlins I got from Sungei Wang and Kawasaki Racing Team at Kawasaki,Shah Alam.

My rear number plate have a crack on it so I decided to change a new one and added carbon fiber plate to it. Looks nice from near but from far, it will look black so that I wont get into trouble with the police.

For the front suspension, I have added some custom made Marzocchi sticker to the top and bottom. Marzocchi is the suspension fork MV Agusta use on their F4 bikes.

I manage to open up my front wheels to paint it. Now it is metalic gun metal with red line running around it. Marchesini Forged sticker is used to add extra bling bling! Marchesini are use on high end Ducati bikes.

Front disks got the golden treatment with Brembo sticker added for extra bling too!

The end cam have change to a new one which is much bigger. Sounds better. It’s a Akrapovic replica but it sure looks nice. The sticker is Akrapovic new logo and it’s custom made with sticker that can withstand heat.

The hanger that comes with the end cam is metal and the heat shield is blue rubber. This will look like normal replica end cam to me. So I decided to buy the original Akrapovic carbon fiber hanger. Results, …. So much lighter and looks better.

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Seat Cowling



This is what I've been doing this week. I always wanted a single seater cowling but cant find someone who is willing to make one for me. So, if you want to do something, you got to do it yourself. I'm not pro at doing fiberglass so I use a broken windshield. The plastic is hard enough so it should work. First I measure the size I need then cut out the windshield accordingly. To shape it, I used a hairdrier. It is hard to bend cause even with so much heat, it took me a long time. But at last I did it. For the inner hooks, I fashion out of aluminium plate and use a 2 ton glue to stick it to the plastic. Then I painted it white for the time being to go with my present Mc Donalds colour. I have also added rubber pad so that my butt wont break it. Strips of rubber pad are also used in the inner rim to keep the water out. All in all, I have tested it and it is stable. Am I happy? Yes I am!!