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Picked up this TL a few months ago, but havent got much time to work on it. Now that the Speed Triple, 91 GSXR, 97 GSXR, and 900RR are all sold off and I finished up the rebuild on my car engine for winter, I can finally DO WORK on this thing!!
Plans for this one aren't super grand at the moment. My main use for this bike is a development platform for design and testing of billet parts. First things are going to be mirrors, rearsets, headlight mounts, then maybe shock conversion parts.
Picked it up from a guy who put if down going over some railroad tracks. He didn't even know about the radial shock issues .. but I think it had something to do with both forks pissing oil all over the place!

Started the strip

Needed a new subframe and tank badly!

It came with a Corbin seat that i was super excited about. Then I rode it around and I hated it. It was rock hard, got in the way of my legs at a stand-still, and the front bracket wasn't quite strong enough to hold the seat in place while riding!!! Egh .. I still dont know what to do with it.
So I bought a crap seat off ebay. If fits much better and actually stays in place while riding! Oh and I also decided that I hate the TLS fender, so I found a beat up TLR fender on ebay.


First attempt at recovering a seat! Easy peasy .. took less than an hour! No super
pneumatic/electric staple gun necessary.


All done! Not too bad for a first try. I am going to ride it a bit to let the vinyl relax into shape some more, then re stretch and staple the leg dip.


Plans for this one aren't super grand at the moment. My main use for this bike is a development platform for design and testing of billet parts. First things are going to be mirrors, rearsets, headlight mounts, then maybe shock conversion parts.
Picked it up from a guy who put if down going over some railroad tracks. He didn't even know about the radial shock issues .. but I think it had something to do with both forks pissing oil all over the place!

Started the strip

Needed a new subframe and tank badly!

It came with a Corbin seat that i was super excited about. Then I rode it around and I hated it. It was rock hard, got in the way of my legs at a stand-still, and the front bracket wasn't quite strong enough to hold the seat in place while riding!!! Egh .. I still dont know what to do with it.
So I bought a crap seat off ebay. If fits much better and actually stays in place while riding! Oh and I also decided that I hate the TLS fender, so I found a beat up TLR fender on ebay.


First attempt at recovering a seat! Easy peasy .. took less than an hour! No super
pneumatic/electric staple gun necessary.


All done! Not too bad for a first try. I am going to ride it a bit to let the vinyl relax into shape some more, then re stretch and staple the leg dip.

