Look what someone did to a Kawasaki Versys. Now this person had some vision.
(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d58/RD350b/YS2B3157.jpg)
(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d58/RD350b/YS2B3165.jpg)
Stock:
(http://www.kawasaki.com/CMS/Products/ActionShots/6971f963-61ba-4358-82be-e5d871b88918.jpg)
Very nice, indeed. If the owner had better vision, he should have bought a S4R dark to start with. Would have saved him a lot more time and money. :)
pretty bad ass looking. I love when people use rain slicks on street bikes. The look so fking cool.
Powder coat the spring black and it's are finished...
Quote from: Goat_Herder on June 01, 2009, 09:41:09 AM
Very nice, indeed. If the owner had better vision, he should have bought a S4R dark to start with. Would have saved him a lot more time and money. :)
Huh? I bet that thing cost half as much as an S4R. Looks like he just took a bunch of stuff of, added a headlight, an exhaust, and a bunch of flat black rattle can. Its alright I guess, in a kawasaki kind of way.
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Quote from: Vindingo on June 01, 2009, 09:42:35 AM
pretty bad ass looking. I love when people use rain slicks on street bikes. The look so fking cool.
Powder coat the spring black and it's are finished...
I kinda like the spring as it is. If it were black the whole center section of the bike would be a clustermake the beast with two backs of different shades/textures of black, but as it is the spring pops.
I actually like that a lot. I looked (fleetingly) at the Versys before I bought the Duc but it was basically the aesthetics that pushed me away. At the same time though, I've seen some people do some pretty sweet things with SV650/1000s, adn they're not riding around on Kawis :).
I can certainly dig that!! Job very well done [thumbsup]
BTW that doesn't look like a rattle can paint job to me. There's several hints of copper? color which ties into the spring which isn't the stock color either.
Travman, do you have any more info on that bike?
Quote from: Jarvicious on June 01, 2009, 01:21:03 PM
I kinda like the spring as it is. If it were black the whole center section of the bike would be a clustermake the beast with two backs of different shades/textures of black, but as it is the spring pops.
I agree with you, although the bike would really pop if the wheels were the same copper color as the spring, or at least copper-colored wheel stripes. JMHO.
I dig it. [thumbsup]
not bad, not bad at all [thumbsup]
Quote from: Industrial Grrrl on June 01, 2009, 01:28:24 PM
Travman, do you have any more info on that bike?
Sorry, no information, just the two pics I found here:
http://forum.svrider.com/showthread.php?t=61824&page=224 (http://forum.svrider.com/showthread.php?t=61824&page=224)
ahh... it could have also been a kawi er- 6n. same difference.
"Rain slicks" Is that an oxymoron or what!!
Quote from: Vindingo on June 01, 2009, 09:42:35 AM
pretty bad ass looking. I love when people use rain slicks on street bikes. The look so fking cool.
Powder coat the spring black and it's are finished...
Quote from: jftoha on June 01, 2009, 11:21:41 PM
"Rain slicks" Is that an oxymoron or what!!
I was thinking the same thing! Jumbo shrimp!
Are those rain slicks, or are they flat track tires? I've been wanting to build a super moto around a set of those tires.
These are the guys that did the Versys
http://www.wrenchmonkees.com/ (http://www.wrenchmonkees.com/)
I put a set of road race rains on an old Kawasaki I had. It would pull the front off in the rain. When it dried out, they lasted less than 800 miles.
That is a pretty cool bike. No flash, all business. Very nice work.
Awesome builds! [bow_down]
Rain slick? Isn't that a contradiction of terms?
that versys is pretty amazing. kawa should use it as marketing. would have made me at least take a look if i knew that was possible
of course once i saw this little gem i forgot allll about the kawa
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