Premium Member avanti Posted April 21, 2015 Author Premium Member Share Posted April 21, 2015 I just bought a graphite one this morning over the phone. I guess that's what credit cards were invented for, hehehe! The kid who sold it to me was apologetic that they couldn't do a deal of some sort, but I told him I certainly understand, given the '07's popularity. So, it was retail out the door minus tax. Btw, it's still in the crate and will be together sometime tomorrow but it is expected to storm the rest of the week so I'll probably not picked up and ride home (75 miles) until Saturday. Now, to order a "fender eliminator" first thing and go from their... toooooo many projects, not nearly enough time!!! Pix here as things happen. This may be the first thing I've ever owned I can just buy parts for and not have to make most of them myself--W O W ! ! ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member so1102 Posted April 21, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted April 21, 2015 Of course since you obviously are a man of refined tastes, and have chosen the proper colored bike, I must ask you to vote in this thread: http://fz07.org/thread/332/fastest-color to help tell the rest of the world that graphite+blurple is indeed the fastest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member motomeek Posted April 21, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted April 21, 2015 Congrats and welcome!! Instagram: @meekmade | You don't need to flat foot a bike to ride it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator Guru Posted April 21, 2015 Global Moderator Share Posted April 21, 2015 I just bought a graphite one this morning over the phone. I guess that's what credit cards were invented for, hehehe! The kid who sold it to me was apologetic that they couldn't do a deal of some sort, but I told him I certainly understand, given the '07's popularity. So, it was retail out the door minus tax. Btw, it's still in the crate and will be together sometime tomorrow but it is expected to storm the rest of the week so I'll probably not picked up and ride home (75 miles) until Saturday. Now, to order a "fender eliminator" first thing and go from their... toooooo many projects, not nearly enough time!!! Pix here as things happen. This may be the first thing I've ever owned I can just buy parts for and not have to make most of them myself--W O W ! ! ! This is great news ! Congratulations. You are going to love the bike. As far a fender eliminator, I can recommend this one. @rotaryryan24 is quite a fabricator and makes some awesome quality products. Just remember, the list of 'must have' mods will get longer and longer and longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotaryryan24 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Thank you... I was trying to create a new gallery instead of adding pix here. Duh!!! This'll work fine; it doesn't matter to me where I put em. [attachment thumbnail=1" id="177][attachment thumbnail=1" id="178][attachment thumbnail=1" id="179][attachment thumbnail=1" id="180] That's a good looking Cushman, do you still have it? My dad's midlife crisis was restoring Cushmans, at one point he had a collection of 28 all restored. We even stuffed a 1000cc sportser engine in a eagle frame, did a 9.7 down the quarter mile at Laughlin. Congrats on the fz07, it's a great bike. You do or don't Then your dead. To order a tail tidy click One-off-fabrication.myshopify.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member avanti Posted April 22, 2015 Author Premium Member Share Posted April 22, 2015 Thanks, all. "...refined taste..." there's no shortage of people who would be more than happy to disagree; for more than a dozen years I wrote and edited a regular column dedicated to modified vehicles in vintage car mag. Boy, did many traditional readers question my taste, and parentage, and genus, and... hehehe. As for mods for the '07 I'm just glad to be on the edge of something for a change that doesn't require I fab nearly everything myself in order to modify it. A genuine change in my life, as you can probably tell from the pix I've posted. Btw, I already ordered a Yoshi fender-eliminator since it has some aspects I particularly like. Out of habit I considered waiting until getting the bike and doing my own, but I've too many other projects currently going to justify doing so just because I usually do. The ol' Cushman, what a giggle that was! No, I don't have it any longer. It went about '62 as I recall, when I got my 1955 Stude President Starlight coupe. But, you know what, of all the vehicles I've owned in the more than half-century intervening I still liked the sound of that flat-head Briggs & Stratton with split, dual-exhaust pipes and no mufflers probably the best of all, bikes and cars and whatever. I think I can do a pretty good imitation of it to this day. As for best colored '07? How could I do anything but express a personal opinion which to me has no other meaning. A pole of what was actually bought makes more sense to me (though I'm sure the overlap is considerable), but I also know some buy based largely on immediate availability and cognitive dissonance "makes" that color the "best/most desirable/fastest/coolest/or... Such is the thought processes of a retired career researcher, sorry. Ah yes, Guru... I forgot to add that I may be one of the few modders who decides how he wants something, then makes it so... then, I'm done. Well, maybe until a total redo a couple decades later. I have done that more than once... but I'm guessing at my age I'll not be doing it many more times. The last time I bought a car the dealer took one look at me and said, "I'd not bother with the extended warranty," hehehe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member avanti Posted April 26, 2015 Author Premium Member Share Posted April 26, 2015 The weather finally broke early this morning and a friend took me to pick up the "Liquid Graphite" I closed the deal on by phone nearly a week ago. I have to say that AllemanCyclePlex in Shreveport were exceptionally helpful and easy to deal with. Anyway, I did a quick check of critical aspects of the newly assembled machine--can never be too careful; dressed the part of legitimate rider--tying my long, full beard and tucking it into my jacket; bid my friend thanks and adieu as he went on his way to the casinos; and FIRED it up. (I have to be honest, of course I'd already done so early as soon as it was brought out while waiting the write the check--natch) Imho, the bike is all it's cracked up to be and more. My only issue is that it is taking me some time to deal with the ergonomics of the turn-signal switch and the horn. Maybe my arthritic thumb is the issue but both controls seem too far away from the grip. Maybe too small a thumb, huh? It simply takes some getting used to... a genuinely, really, piddly issue, to be sure, when the bike does everything else so well out of the box! I rode it the 80 miles home without incident being very careful not to exceed the max rpms, at least not by much and not often! Really!!! I pulled up and went in to report I'd made it back once again and this is what I found when I returned to the bike, a non-factory tail ornament... hehehe!!! [attachment id=235" thumbnail="1] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member hippiebikerchick Posted April 26, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted April 26, 2015 NICE! I see your pipes have that scrumptious golden Yoshi color. How did you do that? Illegitimi non carborundum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member crazycracka501 Posted April 26, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted April 26, 2015 Avanti, the signal/horn issue isn't your imagination. Multiple people here on the forum have even started a thread about dealing with the design. You're right as it is a small issue compared to everything else the bike has to offer. I too am curious how you got the golden color on those pipes as mine were pretty purple before I even hit the 600 mile mark. Maybe I was just a little to overzealous with it from the start. Make it stop!....Now make it go faster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member avanti Posted April 26, 2015 Author Premium Member Share Posted April 26, 2015 HippiDChick & CrazyCrack: It was done with Topaz Labs "spicify" filter and photoshop. It either works well or is a disaster, little in between. I also used it with the LS3 engine pic posted earlier (the one shown from the front, if it's not clear which). But, in reality, they are pretty golden at the moment, but only 80 miles at that point. In fact, my friend who took me to pick it up remarked about it (he perpetually rags me about the golden color on the exhaust on my Excalibur, too, and I tell him I like it--a bit of the titanium look to it, imho). However, it sounds like it won't last on the '07. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member avanti Posted May 3, 2015 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2015 So, yesterday I installed the Yoshi fender eliminator kit and the Yama factory fly-screen. Today FedEx brought the Yama factory pillion cowl and I think this is about it for now. Nothing drastic, at all; I didn't even fabricate but one part--an aluminum bracket to allow the rear blinkers to be moved in about 5/8" on each side. Now, back to other projects. [attachment id=252" thumbnail="1] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beemer Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Welcome Ol' coot! From your pics it looks like you've lived a good life. You survived the hippie era, Nixon, disco and the crappie 80's just to make it here with a new FZ, congratulations! Enjoy your stay. Got more pics? They sure are cool! Beemer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member avanti Posted May 3, 2015 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2015 Beemer, many thanks to you! More pix? Sure, lots, but the moderator says those already up will "disappear" when the host change-over takes place, so I'm not going to add more toy pix for now. Maybe after the switch over. All the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator Guru Posted May 3, 2015 Global Moderator Share Posted May 3, 2015 Don't worry about the switch over for now. It might take a while. So don't hold back on posting those pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member avanti Posted May 4, 2015 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 4, 2015 Okay; thanks, Guru. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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