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    XB12Raven Build

    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

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    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

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by TPEHAK View Post
    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.
    Getting parts up to Anchorage is hard enough, it almost doubles the cost of an S tail. Its something I want do but ive already dumped almost half of what I paid for this thing into parts, between guns, offroad trucks, and bikes, I'm tend to prioritize and buy when I find deals
    Quote Originally Posted by njloco View Post
    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 !
    Hahaha, see the last pics there was still snow out yesterday

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    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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    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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    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
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