OB_GrumpyCop
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I know this has already been beat to deat, but for those who were interested in how my FMSD parts went here ya go:
This was the biggest pain in the a** I have ever seen. Don't get me wrong it looks great when you get it done, but you have to do more rigging and modification than I ever expected. After you spend an hour chopping the fender of your bike to an irrecoverable mess and install the part. You have do deal with no blinkers. I tried to use one of those integrators but wasn't happy with the result. So I had to rig some Lockhart flushmount lights to the under body for some rear turn signals. Looks fine and you don't even notice them until they are activated, but would have preferred some other option than this or putting holes in the tail. Not really necessary unless you want to keep your bike as close to street legal as you can and keep the idiots from cutting you off as much.
Once I finished that mess I had to deal with the fact that they don't pre-drill any holes and I had to bore another one to pull the bulb for the license plate light through. Once I got it through, I had to get a light fixture and mount for an automobile plate light. After mounting that I used some Ford blue in order to paint it to match the Suzuki blue as closely as possible. A very close match, I was surprised. And to top it all off the little ridge on the underfender designed to hold your license plate is too small to accept the bracket with your inspection certificate. Had to turn it upside down and drill new holes in it to mount it all upside down. In addition you still have to drill yet more holes in the ridge to mount the plate and bracket to.
After all this it looks great, but leaves you with little more trunk room than to place your PCII, a disc lock, and very small tire repair kit.
About and hour into the installation I was regretting having ever started this project, but I am happy with the results I ended up with. And with the new trn signal look it makes my bike un-mistakable with others. I'm working on getting some pictures of it for you guys as soon as I can.
If after all this and DP's rantings on the subject you are still interested here's the address again - http://www.freestylemotodesign.com/
This was the biggest pain in the a** I have ever seen. Don't get me wrong it looks great when you get it done, but you have to do more rigging and modification than I ever expected. After you spend an hour chopping the fender of your bike to an irrecoverable mess and install the part. You have do deal with no blinkers. I tried to use one of those integrators but wasn't happy with the result. So I had to rig some Lockhart flushmount lights to the under body for some rear turn signals. Looks fine and you don't even notice them until they are activated, but would have preferred some other option than this or putting holes in the tail. Not really necessary unless you want to keep your bike as close to street legal as you can and keep the idiots from cutting you off as much.
Once I finished that mess I had to deal with the fact that they don't pre-drill any holes and I had to bore another one to pull the bulb for the license plate light through. Once I got it through, I had to get a light fixture and mount for an automobile plate light. After mounting that I used some Ford blue in order to paint it to match the Suzuki blue as closely as possible. A very close match, I was surprised. And to top it all off the little ridge on the underfender designed to hold your license plate is too small to accept the bracket with your inspection certificate. Had to turn it upside down and drill new holes in it to mount it all upside down. In addition you still have to drill yet more holes in the ridge to mount the plate and bracket to.
After all this it looks great, but leaves you with little more trunk room than to place your PCII, a disc lock, and very small tire repair kit.
About and hour into the installation I was regretting having ever started this project, but I am happy with the results I ended up with. And with the new trn signal look it makes my bike un-mistakable with others. I'm working on getting some pictures of it for you guys as soon as I can.
If after all this and DP's rantings on the subject you are still interested here's the address again - http://www.freestylemotodesign.com/