So here's original:
Then came the mini fairing that did nothing, rear sets, and lastly the yamaha cast wheel conversion.
Of course never smart enough to leave well enough alone, I had to have a bigger fuel tank and get out of the wind a bit (I'm tall) and then came the next perversion of stock parts.
With all that, stuff still bothered me. I wanted removable hard bags, so I wouldn't have to go places either wearing a backpack or stuffing crap in my pockets, so I modified Givi frames to fit my commando.
I still had complaints. The early side covers jammed up against the interstate tank and the tank had to be shimmed up in the back. I had to adapt interstate sidecovers to fit the central oil tank commando. The only other thing that is bugging me at the moment is the seat cover is shot and the seat is too short since it was a temporary fix to fit with the interstate tank. I just finished the side cover swap to the interstate look, and I photoshopped the seat to make it look longer even though I'm not sure what the final seat will look like...
and also the last 2 pictures have the stock lollypop directionals deleted in favor of the fairing mounted pyramids up front and the small (but very bright) matte black, low profile emgo directionals.
I have finally replace the early roadster side covers which bumped into the bottom of my interstate tank. It took me a long time to make all the sheet metal adjustments to fit around the '70 central oil tank and make some accomodation to house the key cylinder. So now my commando looks like an interstate,... The only thing I know I want to do is get a new seat. I actually cut down my original roadster seat and it doesn't look proportionate to the larger fuel tank, so it's on my list along with a belt drive primary.
I made some new adjustments. I got an interstate seat and the guts to cut down the windshield 3" in the center, tapering off to 1.5" on both cheeks. The fairing looks more proportionate to the sizes of the seat and fuel tank now, but I'm not willing to cut it down more than I have already, because I like the coverage from the wind blast on my chest when I'm riding down the hiway. The picture above is with the givi bags off obviously...
Lookin' a little better here with the windshield trimmed and the new seat.
