First ride after a rain with a passenger and boy did she get soaked! Ooops. She asked me why I chopped the tail and I told her I didn't buy the bike to carry passengers......
lol every bike has it and yes thats what its called if she didnt get wet, you would of ! so thank her for her sacrafice!
ok, after reading much about it, I STILL have no friggin clue what this "beer tray" is. Someone pleez post a pic including one of it ON a bike so I know where it it also????? Thanks [roll]
It's the plastic "tray" behind the brake light that everyone cuts off :)
Quote from: Monsterlover on July 01, 2009, 05:11:35 AM
It's the plastic "tray" behind the brake light that everyone cuts off :)
+1
It's like those tags they put on your mattress that say "DO NOT REMOVE" FU, I bought this thing, I'm going to remove what I want! ;D
Those tags say Not to be removed, except by the consumer...
With a full tail chop, you'll get the rooster tail fling on you too, not just a passenger - and if you have to ride through some muddy puddles.. it makes a spectacular mess.. but that's a different story.
just put a nice CF hugger on it
Quote from: RavnMonster on July 01, 2009, 05:39:06 AM
just put a nice CF hugger on it
Doesn't help much, but still looks good, so do it anyway [thumbsup]
Nekkidchic, look at Arc de Duc's bike half way down - behind the seat cowl, that's a beer tray.
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=205.1140 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=205.1140)
the beer tray some people also call it the "duck bill" as it looks a little like.. a ducks bill.
Quote from: NekkedChic on July 01, 2009, 05:08:26 AM
ok, after reading much about it, I STILL have no friggin clue what this "beer tray" is. Someone pleez post a pic including one of it ON a bike so I know where it it also????? Thanks [roll]
grab two beers and stand around your bike with a friend. then feel like you need to take something apart to show him how awesome you are
look for a place to sit your beer so your hands are free.
you will immediately find the so called "beer tray" works like a charm even on a sidestand. convinced my friend who leaves his bike in my garage to leave his tail intact for just this reason ;D (you didnt think id leave mine on did you?)
Except that she rides a 696, so her bike didn't come with one.
(http://www.barnold.com/img/ducati-plate-relocator-04.jpg)
mystery revealed!
I don't miss my beer tray at all.
sometimes i do when i dismount wearing a dress shirt with a mud racing stripe down the back from the rear tire.
but only for a moment
I don't miss mine at all either. I don't commute, so I pick when I ride. I've been caught out three times. Twice it was pouring so I didn't notice the stripe on the back as I was soaked anyway. The GF is a sport and really doesn't mind. The biggest problem that night is she was wearing low rise jeans so a little of her back was exposed between her jacket and her pants, thereby funneling all the water into her jeans.
Made it a perfect time for one of my favorite puns "Why don't you take off your pants and jacket?"
I took mine off once and made a much smaller piece to go in its place, my wife said she liked the stock piece so I put it back on. What baby wants baby gets.
I like my beer tray. To me the bike looks truncated without it, perhaps because the bike must be truncated in order to remove it.
I don't like the christmas tree of reflectors, license holder, etc. that used to hang down below the beer tray. Mine has been removed and replaced with a license plate relocator so things look pretty much like redial's picture.
It's just it looks like it really doesn't belong on the bike at all. It's so out of proportion on the bike.Just my two centavos.
Quote from: TAftonomos on July 01, 2009, 05:22:18 AM
+1
It's like those tags they put on your mattress that say "DO NOT REMOVE" FU, I bought this thing, I'm going to remove what I want! ;D
Classic LMFAO [thumbsup]
Quote from: mstevens on July 02, 2009, 11:08:01 AM
I like my beer tray. To me the bike looks truncated without it, perhaps because the bike must be truncated in order to remove it.
I don't like the christmas tree of reflectors, license holder, etc. that used to hang down below the beer tray. Mine has been removed and replaced with a license plate relocator so things look pretty much like redial's picture.
I agree, the chopped bikes look out of proportion to me.
And I also used a license plate relocator. [thumbsup]
Quote from: somegirl on July 03, 2009, 07:45:08 PM
I agree, the chopped bikes look out of proportion to me.
And I also used a license plate relocator. [thumbsup]
One more for the beer tray and relocator. The tail chop always reminds me of a docked dogs ass. ;D
Tail chop gives it a forward leaning aggressive stance, like its ready to spring forward. I loves my tail chop, complete with 20 guage shotgun shells!
To each their own...
Quote from: rgramjet on July 04, 2009, 05:34:19 AM
Tail chop gives it a forward leaning aggressive stance, like its ready to spring forward. I loves my tail chop, complete with 20 guage shotgun shells!
To each their own...
Is that a chrome tank in your avitar?? :o
Oh and i chopped as soon as i got my bike.
Quote from: rgramjet on July 04, 2009, 05:34:19 AM
Tail chop gives it a forward leaning aggressive stance, like its ready to spring forward. I loves my tail chop, complete with 20 guage shotgun shells!
To each their own...
That's why I installed a center stand. On the side stand it totally leaned like a drunken sailor, given the impression it was about to spring over, into a lowside. ;D
Perspective :)
Quote from: redial on July 01, 2009, 08:28:19 AM
grab two beers and stand around your bike with a friend. then feel like you need to take something apart to show him how awesome you are
look for a place to sit your beer so your hands are free.
you will immediately find the so called "beer tray" works like a charm even on a sidestand. convinced my friend who leaves his bike in my garage to leave his tail intact for just this reason ;D (you didnt think id leave mine on did you?)
OHHHHHHHH!!!!! geesh I feel stupider now. Thanks tho! :lol:
Except mine would be a capuccino tray ;D
and thats also why I could not figure out from pix ppl showed me where the hell it is/was, becuz the 696 does not have this evidentally. TKS!