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Duke51- from pennsylvania
Hi, I'm duke. Thanks for all the nice things said about my bike. A little about me. I'm 58 from Sybertsville, Pa. I live two miles from the junction of interstates 80 and 81. The bike is an '84 Honda Shadow VT700C that i have about 20 years. It now has around 60 thousand miles on it and has never had the engine apart.Over the years I have changed a lot of things on it. I made forward controls out of highway pegs. Just used a HURST shifter and bolted it on a cut off bike shift lever to extend it and welded on an extension from another brake lever for the brake. Ignition switch took a sh++ at about 35,000 miles so I rewired it and put a toggle switch on it on the side for ignition.(Also hid another toggle switch on the bike to kill all power to the bike so no one could turn the visible switch on and steal the bike) Took off the stock gauges and dash and made a dash out of a small project box from Radio Shack and used L E D's for turn, high beam, neutral, low fuel, and oil pressure lights. Put 8.8 mm Accel plug wires I made up on it. Made pipes out of pipe I had laying and put gutted Harley mufflers on it. Only had to drill out aluminum plug from each carb and turn the enrichment screw out about 1 turn to get rid of surging at 55 to 60 mph. Didn't have to rejet and have been running it that way since it had around 9,000 miles on it and no problems. To put the fender on it I had to move the ignitor boxes. I found room behind each side cover and with a little vecro mounted them.Its a tight fit on the right side but it fit by the air filter box and frame. The left side I had to cut the bracket that holds some wiring plugs and reposition them and mount the box to that. Everything seems to fit OK.
I cut the frame right behind the shock towers and mounted the fender to the original bolt holes from the stock fender and put the fender brace mounted to the lower shok mounts. By the way EBAY saved me a ton of money on parts. I bought the struts,which are 9 1/2" eye to eye from ebay also. And the fender, brace, side plate mount, tail light,mini speedo, and a lot of other things from EBAY. The bike handles better than when it was stock and I put 24 pounds of air in the back tire and it really doesn't ride to bad unless you hit a big pot hole. But even then the control you have is better than when it was stock. Had to fabricate a new spring mount for the solo seat as it was too narrow to reach the frame where I cut it off. Lot of little things were changed and as I think of them I will post them. I will add pix of it over the years so you can see how it has changed.
Thanks again for the nice things that have been said about it. I have been riding motorcycles since I was 12 and will never stop.
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