XB12Raven Build

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So some of yall might remember hating me from my previous chopper build.
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Hacking apart everything that is sacred.

PART1
I picked up an 09 red and black XB12R about a year and a half ago, I'm really not sure if you guys know how hideous the uppers on the Rs are but jesus.

Well here she was around the day I got her
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Boy was she ugly

[TPEHAK]

Yup, that long fat tail on XB R is ugly AF.

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PART2: wtf am i doing
Fast forward to last summer, I removed the upper fairing and started building my own frame structure to support everything i wanted to do
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By the end of the long Alaskan winter, I still had not done much more to her when Spring 2017 rolled around. I kicked it in high gear though.
Built a new subframe to house the lights with white halos and red demon eyes. Picked up some bar end mirrors (that I subsequently lost on a long ride and ordered different ones
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I ran this setup with no gauges through spring

[TPEHAK]

Front looks cool, but please eliminate that R tail and install Scg tail or custom short tail. And also install 240-320 fat rear wheel for sure.

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I love it, spring and there s still snow on the ground, I guess everyone's perception of spring is a little different �� !

I like it, even though you committed blasphemy !

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Part3: Unnecessary waiting and heartbreak

I decided to get some uly rearsets instead of tracking down the stock factory passenger pegs. Got a little ahead of myself and started to take it apart only to find out the gentleman that sold me the rearsets didnt even make it to the post office for 3 weeks.
Pegs came in slapped them on and now realized he didnt include the rear brake line as promised so I waited for him to ship and and after and other two weeks nothing came so I took my existing rear brake like and had it extended
I also painted all the plastics a semigloss black
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Also put in an integrated taillight and put a little lens tint on it (not pictured) to smoke it out

I took the bike into my vinyl shop I have set up in my house and made some decals for her
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Including my own version of the frame flag

Then tragedy strikes. After the bike being down 5 weeks of the most beautiful short summers we get in Alaska, my maiden voyage turning onto a main street had a giant piece of concrete thrown into the road. Nearly sending me into a ditch. I managed to keep the bike upright but my front wheel was shot

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PART4:Almost total loss, change of direction and giving up for the season

I dropped the bike off at a locals house that has bike tire machines and he pulled my wheel and I took it around to shops trying to find a shop that could straighten it. No luck. As my bike was sitting at this guys house. His house catches fire. Completely gutted his house but the garage was a later addition and had a fire break. I cant find the pictures but the bike was pretty much black from soot

I needed a new wheel and I wasn't going to pay a brazillion dollars for one so I kept hunting and hunting until I found a cheap. I found a diamond blue one on Ebay this winter and really started to work on my fly screen. A week ago I dropped the bike back off to another local to get the blue wheel swapped out on the front and to pull the back wheel off so I could color match it with the paint I ordered from Harley and boom. What was red is now blue
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PART5: Finished for now

I got a big up my ass to completely finish my flyscreen and get my gauges on so I'd have a fighting chance arguing with the popos with how fast I was going. Welded on some side brackets, tucked as much as I could of the wiring away and this is how she is sitting as of yesterday
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Hard to see the Halos and Demon eyes because it was so bright out