New Camera and a little tail cleanup

[zore]

I decided I hated the look of the rear fender so I took it off.  Not being one to cut up stock parts, I made the under cover and license plate bracket out of clearn lexan.  Why lexan you ask?  It's what I had.  it's easy to cut and bends easily with a heat gun.  Besides replacing the carburetor, i've been taking pictures of useless things all day with my new camera.

[h2olawyer]

Besides replacing the carburetor, i've been taking pictures of useless things all day with my new camera.

Better be careful calling the V a useless thing.  It may hear you & get mad.  Then you'll be in trouble.   ;D

I have never really liked the rear fender treatment on these bikes either.  Your mods look pretty good.

H2O

[Sable]

I still like the looks of the little half fender on the choppped V that was in June '04 Cycle World. I'd put the link here, but the picture in no longer available ;D

~Sable

[crazyjimmy]

I like it, it makes it look clean.

[crackerkorean]

Hope you dont mind but I was going to borrow your idea and do the same to my bike.

Where did you attach the lexan to the underside of the bike?

[zore]

I'll take some pics.  I bent the lexan up in the same shape as teh stock fender.

[Extent]

Looks very clean, I like the look of a bobbed fender.  I went the route of just trimming the stock one down, I wanted to keep the plate lights and couldn't be bothered to fabricate something from scratch (at the time) so I just took the lights off their extension, located the plate mount as high as it would go and trimmed everything that hung below the plate.

[thekid]

I was looking thru old posts today and just saw the shaved rear fender on your bike. Talk about deja Vu! It looks exactly like the butt end of my bike! I got the same results by cutting off the rear fender (only the exposed bits) with a cutting wheel and reusing the factory liscence plate mount with minor modifications. some cutting and bending required there also. With allittle redneck ingenuity Iwas able to reuse the light as well to keep it legal.  I mounted the new aftermarket bullet style blinkers to the luggage rack mounts with a little drilling.
I love the look, but my wife's butt gets a little wet when we ride thru puddles! ::)

[Blurred Vision]

I'm another fan of the bobbed fender. Not a lot of fabrication required. Attached existing plate mount and light to the 2 bolts inside the tail piece. Brings the bike from the 80's to the 90's.

[YellowJacket!]

I REALLY LIKE your paint job Jay.  Do you have a better picture that you can share with us?  That flame job looks great.

David

[Tiger]

 :D Must be catching? :o !!!
I chopped mine a few weeks back as I didn't like the original fender"style".Gives the "old girl" a much more modern look.? 8)

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[Lucky]

I REALLY LIKE your paint job Jay. Do you have a better picture that you can share with us? That flame job looks great.

David

Also, what do i see the ends of those Mac pipes?

[Blurred Vision]

The mac pipes have Hard Krome spiral baffles, the only thing I could find to fit a 3 " pipe. Loud as hell though. I don't mind it suits the Mad Max look of the bike 8).

Here's a closer look at the flames I'll have to post a second photo in another post.

[Blurred Vision]

Here's the top of the tank. It took me an entire week to do the entire bike.

[Blurred Vision]

Ok last pic of the tank. This all Laquer products no automotive finish used. Work with what you know I guess. ;D

[thekid]

Dude, that has to be the sweetest paint scheme I have ever seen on a Vision!  Big ups to thee , bro.  -thekid

[ps2/bikevision]

hey zore where did you put your plate. when i choped my finder i did mine like this



my wheel helped adjust the plate so it wouldnt rub. also i mounted the factory liscence light to the back of the box behind the tail light.

[Blurred Vision]

Dude, that has to be the sweetest paint scheme I have ever seen on a Vision!? Big ups to thee , bro.? -thekid

Thanks man. I was lucky enough to get a mechanically sound bike, just had to clean her up. As of yet I haven't seen another flamed vision. I can see me repainting the bike every winter just to have something to do. Gotta mix it up a little ya know.

[Superfly]

The bike looks really nice.? I enjoy interesting paintjobs, that is one of the best I have seen on the Vision!

I like to wrench on the bikes, and trust me, the Vision finds things for you to do to her!

[Blurred Vision]

No kidding I bought an aftermarket universal headlight fairing and she deciced to melt the lense for me. I put aftermarket turn signals on her and they wouldn't blink...then one melted.

Thanks for the compliment that is my 4th time painting the vision since Aug 05.
Some people wrench all winter long and I will probably paint every winter.