GS850 Cafe "Night Fury"

[jadeasker]

This has been my little project for the past month or two. It still has a long way to go but I will keep you posted as everything comes together. Right now I am fiberglassing the fairing and getting the engine ready to go back in. It's been a blast!

 

[Dogma]

Looks like an 82-83 850GL.

The green accents should be interesting. The exhaust hanger might work out better black. We'll see. Did you paint the stock rubber brake line?

Hurry up and finish.

 

[Tim Tom]

Nice project. Keep us posted on your progress. Kinda like the green hornet theme with the acid green. Cool.

Keep building!

 

[jadeasker]

The brake line was wrapped in Techflex braided cable sleeves. Its much better than painting. More pictures to come.

 

[duper850]

Looks lite.
Can't wait to see the finish, hope you can keep the clean look, very well done! Good luck!

 

[Guest]

This does look interesting, keeping my eye on this one

 

[Smokinapankake]

Night Fury - Been watching "How to Train Your Dragon"? Not too sure about the green accents, but will withold judgement until further progress. And then I'll prolly withold it anyway because nobody really wants to hear it. Looks like an interesting project.

 

[jadeasker]

smokniapankake: Nicely put. Haha. Don't worry, you wont offend me by saying you hate my motorcycle. That's the beauty of doing your own custom bike. People hate it or love but the important thing is that it makes me happy.

In all honesty, I didn't realize this bike would scream green quite as much. I am thinking about stripping the green from the foot peg support and painting them black.

Here is a frontal of more green cables and lines:

Hopefully the black engine will tone the green down a bit.
You guys rock!

 

[FreshStart]

Looks like its monster energy themed

 

[SVSooke]

Those green lines make my red ones look positively pedestrian

 

[jadeasker]

Here are a few updates:

Simple Speedo mount and ignition. I know, it's just a toggle switch but I plan on making another hidden switch to make it less of a no-brainer to steal. Some of you might hate this idea.

New battery and electrical housing.

A rough look of what the tail end will look like.

More to come...

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Subscribed!
Are the bars Norman Hydes? Love their shape... Hell I love the look of the whole bike!

 

[Flaming Chainsaws]

You two would make great friends .

http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=20469.0

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Yeah, no doubt! I had to do a double take. I knew that paint scheme looked familiar

 

[jadeasker]

Wow! That is an awesome project. It looks great. Kinda ironic that we are basically at the same point of the built with the same color scheme. I hope my Night Fury doesn't look that green. I hope to get fiberglassing and paint the engine soon. I need to ride! I am going crazy!

 

[jadeasker]

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Holy smokes, this has been a long project. Sorry I have been off the map for a while. Here are a few pictures taken today:

I like how the paint turned out.

I still have a lot of electrical work to do.

 

[Krunk_Kracker]

Can you explain the process of the painting?

 

[AF_Bill]

^Ditto. Did you spray/brush on the green and lay some cling wrap over while still wet and remove??

 

[Hammered]

Looks like the plastic bag method.

 

[spyug]

Looks very interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing the end result.

One piece of advice I'd like to put forward to you and all the other fellas and gals thinking to do a custom seat pan/tail. You want to make sure you have plenty of seat padding or that 'plank" can do you serious damage. I'm speaking from experience, 6 months of painful sitting and problems walking and now going on 4 years of nerve damage to my left leg. At this point, I just have about 90% proper function in the leg and sometimes have trouble keeping the bike upright at stops.

Prior to my GS days I was in to XS650s and built a Street Tracker with a seat and tail I made in fiberglass over foam as you did. Light but plank hard. I also made a seat pad about 2.5 inches thick from firm foam and while it seemed comfy enough It was really too firm. After only riding for an hour or two at a time over a month or so I managed to compress the sciatic nerve in my left buttock. Pain so bad I couldn't move or walk and required morphine shots to kill it. I lost a whole season of riding over that.

They look good and add to the style of the bike but like a lot of 'stylish" things can cause some discomfort or worse. Just wanted you to know.

Good luck and keep the pics coming.

cheers,
Spyug