Mrbones' SV650 - Take Two

[mrbones]

Here's it is after the cut. You can see it.

[mrbones]

Then I masked it up and painted it with 500 degree engine paint to prevent visible rust. Job done. On to the next one. 

[Mark32]

MrBones
 Here's my 01 TL1000S. Awesome bike.  Swapped a old truck  had a few years ago. Just turned 4K.  Even though i'm a inline 4 guy I really enjoy riding this bike.  Just got a Buell XB12R  (don't ask me why)

[mrbones]

The SV's are great bikes. I bet the 1000 gets up and goes!

[mrbones]

I added a few things to the bike over the last few months. Most recently are my mirror extenders. Now I can see the road behind me instead of my arms. Also put on a used Corbin seat of which is awesome. Also mounted the saddle bags under the seat. Added handle bar risers that are actually just old Honda clamps turned upside down and drilled out (with longer bolts.) And, put on Motogrip Deathgrips. They are gel with a skull pattern. See the pics below.

One thing I forgot to take a pic of is the new tail light. Since I mounted the bags further back, I had to take the stock turn signals off. I installed a combo LED rear brake light and is an all in one unit. The left or right side flashes in yellow for the turn signals. It's pretty cool and bright as hell.

[mrbones]

A few more pics.

[mrbones]

Here's the link to where I got the tail light. Blinky, blinky.

http://www.motodynamic.com/product_info.php?cPath=7_8_15&products_id=75

[dt]

Good deal on the led; it’s good they’re bright. Some of those aren’t bright enough imo. On our group ride a couple weeks ago, one of the bikes had dual led signals and you couldn’t really see them.

Nice job. What’s next or is it just time for miles?

[mrbones]

Just miles pretty much. I do want to get the forks powder coated gloss black. The clear coat is getting all messed up. But, I just down feel like messing with it right now.

[dt]

Just miles pretty much. I do want to get the forks powder coated gloss black.

Yup, that will look good imo. I painted the buckets on my CR250 gloss black and throught it looked great. Then I painted the buckets on my MT250 red and don't like it at all. Plan to do the XR500 in black some day. Gloss black looks good no matter what else is going on colorwise with a bike; powder coating always looks better. I also put Dunlop fork decals on the CR; not sure how that would go over on a street bike, but there's a ton of fork decal designs on eBay and elsewhere.

[maureen]

Very nice! The SV's are great bikes. I rode one up in NC on 28 and still grin thinking back to that day.