Still liking my plan of taking the restoration/conversion slowly, and in the meantime I've begun to cleanup and restore the gross old frame. Which is actually one of my favorite parts, I love scraping all the mud and muck off the old machinery, repainting, and putting it back together.
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That rear shock is pretty good shape, but does anyone know how to disassemble the whole assembly? I'd really love to take that spring off and really get in the cracks. Couldn't find a specific method on YouTube so far, any hints?
Also thinking about color scheme. On one of my junkyard runs, I was able to score several lengths of high-voltage cables from EVs, so it'll be great material to use for battery cabling and whatnot. As well as the cables coming out of the big QSmotors are also orange. So why not orange as the color scheme for the whole bike?
How's this shade?
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I was thinking that it's probably unlikely that I will be able to find a full set of plastics that fit, so I want to consider naked bike options. Which I like anyway, because it'll be obviously an electric motorcycle with an exposed battery. So I was thinking about painting the frame orange, instead of black, since it'll be visable.
Here's a sample pic I found online of someone else's (IC) naked mod of the same model bike, in which the frame is painted a bright color to contrast the rest of the bike, and I thought it's something that I could manage.
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