A street bike
Rat Bike Style.
Here's what you need.
1: a grinder with a cutoff wheel
2: a drill with an assortment of drum sanders, drill bits, and sockets
3: some beer
4: some lights
5: some sand paper and a skinny flat stick. like a stir stick for paint.
6: some zip ties
7: a good excuse to hang out in the garage all night
8: a track bike
9: some beer
and last and most importantly some creativity combined with the lack of drive to finish your street plastics and the NEED to ride your track bike on the road because you're heading down to street ride with your out of state track buddies this weekend and don't want to ride your pusae bike.
Every street bike needs a head light.
Chances are your track bike used to have head lights when it was a street bike.
The nice thing about projector head lights is that they are sealed water tight enclosures and don't need to be enclosed in the factory head light housing.
I've taken off many head light lenses, and used many different methods to soften up the gasket gew. This time I used scalding hot watter. worked great.
Every street bike needs a tail light.
Chances are your track bike used to have a tail light when it was a street bike.
An easy way to transfer the profile is by taping a piece of paper to the tail light and using your dirty fingers to rub the profile which shows you right where to cut.
Tape it to the body work where you think it might look good
be sure to cut out the profile to the inside of what you traced that way you can sand the final profile to size.
Once the tail light hole is profiled hold the taillight tightly in place and drill through the body and the tail light. Pilot the screws in by hand and then heat them with a cigarette lighter so they don't crack the plastic tail light housing.
Once re installed to street plastics these holes should be completely concealed under body work.
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