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    Junior Member Jauhoparta's Avatar
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    2000 X1 project from Finland

    Hello to everyone! I have followed this great forum for few years, as many as I have been owner of my dear X1. Story begins in late 2012 when I bought mint X1 Lightning. It had only 15000 miles on it but looks had change in the wrong direction. I had pretty clear image in my head what I should do to make it more for my taste. So this is how it looked like...



    Chrome makes me sick. Matte black is more my taste. Stay tuned...

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    Needs about 200 3/8" bolts in the tires and go ice racing!!!

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    Hello mate glad you put it on here for us all to see and i cant wait to see more of those pics of the finished bike!! I have black addiction too!!

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    welcome! I ride a X1 as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pur pony View Post
    welcome! I ride a X1 as well.
    Pur pony, he is fully aware of who you are......he said your machine was part of his inspiration. Check out his finished product.

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    Yeah pur check it out in users bikes! next years calendar for sure!!

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    found it... BADASS..... I thought he was saying stay tuned, more pics to follow here. Last time i checked the user bike pics it was a couple days ago when Nitto12ss posted.

    Your bike looks very nice Jauhoparta! The gold forks really set the bike off with all the black. Love it!
    Last edited by pur pony; 04-28-2016 at 03:44 AM.

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    What should I show first, maeby tail. This final tail is actually third I made. First 2 didnt really fit my eye. First was Honda cbr RR tail which became ugly as f#&k and second was tubular but used the original seat base. Second was pretty good but was little too massive. For the final piece I first turned 4 connecting pieces, like so



    Rest of the tail was made from seamless 25x3mm hydraulic pipe, 3mm sheet metal and random bits. I bended everything with "el cheapo" tube bender (crusher) borrowed from my friend. It was huge pain to get every bend similar both sides. Then I welded little pipe to become tail light housing...







    Lower tubes are shown later when the seat is explained

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    I like seeing the whole process. I think it's awesome, seeing what a home "garage builder" can pull off with minimal tools.

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    I took 3mm thick aluminium and beat it to undertray. Maeby some tigging was also needed









    Welded some blind nuts for fastening it







    Seat lock found its home also




    For rear indicators I made these things out of stainless. Undertray shares screws with them



    These indicator brackets are not the ones now installed, I did smaller ones but similar



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