Glade21's XB9RS - My First Bike

[Glade21]

Hey guys, thought I would finally post some pics of my bike up. I have had it for about 2 months or so, only been riding for a month and I have put about 500miles on it and I love it. I had never ridden a bike before so it a whole new world for me. I deffinatley have some plans for her durring the winter inluding a new color scheme with alot of powdercoating, and possibly a turbo setup, so I will pist pics as I go. But anyways here are some pics.



2 months ago

Now

 

[batman6669]

nice put a tail lift on it

 

[n0ctrnlr3d]

NICE

 

[kalifornia]

good looking- is that a frosted windscreen??

 

[Glade21]

Thanks guys. I think I will do the tail lift when those $30 come back in stock. The windscreen is just painted silver, the original owner painted it and I just redid it when I chopped it.

 

[Supermanrider]

Looks good, like the tail swap and low profile front blinkers

 

[brightbuell]

Wow, I love that tail. I have a firebolt and I have thought about it many times. My girl says no but man it gives the illusion of an extended swingarm. I love it. Im going to show her these pics. That is your stock swingarm correct?

 

[upthemaiden]

Looks great! really like the tail with the low bars and flyscreen.

 

[Glade21]

Yeah its the stock swingarm. I have an SS swing that I was going to use but I just decided to keep the stocker and keep the short wheelbase.

 

[Hammel13]

Nice bike man it's lookin good

 

[j4nn3]

Looking great! I really like the R front / S tail combo. And - removing the passenger pegs and brackets cleans those lines a LOT. Wish I could remove mine (nope says my daughter ;-)

 

[upthemaiden]

Does the windshield do much at all with it cut down like that? I'm half tempted to slowly collect the parts to put an xbr front end on my xbs, but it would only be worth it if I actually got some wind protection out of it. I get absolutely none out of the current flyscreen and wouldn't mind this for a change sometimes.

It would be nice if the firebolt headlights just plugged right in. Anyone does the conversion that can say anything about that one? Not sure if the stock bars would clear the new front end either but it would be worth a shot!

 

[Glade21]

I have never rode a lightning, but I can bet that the chopped widscreen is not much different, but I just tuck if I need to if it gets real windy, but it doesn't bother me near as much as the huge obnoxious stock windscreen did lol.

 

[brightbuell]

how did you cut your wind screen down? is it a clean cut?

 

[brightbuell]

Is that a Voodoo pipe?

 

[Glade21]

Yeah it is chopped, I used a jigsaw with a fine blade and it made a very clean cut. I fabbed up the pipe myself. It is a stainless magnaflow muffler, and I made the fairing mounts for it too sand it's rock solid, and sounds f-ing awesome, really deep and mean but not too loud.

 

[upthemaiden]

well it can't be any worse than the lightning flyscreen. The wind is actually worse if I tuck than if I just sit upright with my head as high and as far back as possible.

 

[Glade21]

Yeah, at least the bolt has more aero even with the chopped screen, but I was cruising 60-70mph today with no issues, just when there is a heavy wind do I notice it.

 

[Glade21]

I finally found a 04+ Belt so I will be doing the upgrade this weekend, alond with an oit change, so she will be runnin peachy.

 

[BuellRider3158]

How is the drop pegs with the Firebolt bars? I rode a Firebolt and it was hard on my wrists compared to my Lightning. Just thought the drop pegs might take some of that pressure off.