SUBMISSION THREAD, Bike of the Month, November 2008

Submission time again....... For some reason, there's a few people who still neglect to read the submission rules, so again I'll reiterate that posting separate threads in this section with your bike will not count as a submission, nor will incomplete submissions. Easy stuff, folks. HERE (http://www.gsxr.com/showthread.php?t=48591) are the rules. That said, congrats to Stoneyboy on his win for October Ride of the Month. Was a close one....... Do not use this thread for discussing which bike you like/dislike, as there will be a voting thread following this one. Submission dates: Through November 25, 2008 Judging/Voting dates: November 25 thru November 30 Announcement: On or about December 1 Winner gets a brand-spankin shiny new nothing, and will be posted on the GSXR.com homepage for the month of November! POST EM UP, and good fortune to all the entrants!!

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/gixxerfool/attachment.jpg http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/gixxerfool/IMG_0410.jpg http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/gixxerfool/HID%20Stuff/BurningtheBulbsIIN.jpg http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/gixxerfool/IMG_0169r.jpg Year:2005 Model:GSX-R Eng size:750 Pipe:Micron Slip-on Seat:Stock seat shaved and cover is from a 2007 Cadillac XLR-V, covered at home Wheels:Stock Accessories/other mods: -BMC Race air Filter -Factory Pro Velocity Stacks -H4/H7 HID upgrade -GPR Steering Stabilizer -Driven Grips -Double Z 1/4 turn throttle Mod -Puig Hugger -Zero Gravity Double Bubble windscreen -HM fender eliminator -HIGHTECHSPEED Proton Flushmounts and UFO taillight -Vortex Rearsets -Vortex Frame Sliders -SME Fork Sliders -Pazzo Shorty Levers -Acumen Digital Gear Position Display -Michelin Pilot Powers -The Tankslapper tank Protector -Power Commander III -Custom tune performed by Powerhouse Motorcycles And the story: I bought my first bike (a 99 GSX-R 750) in 2004. I started to get my mods together that winter. On one of the nicer first days of the season, May 5, 2005, yes you read that correctly Cinco De Mayo 2005 or 5/5/05, I decided to take the bike out and on my way home a lady blew a stop sign on a left turn and totaled my bike. She drove a Suzuki Tracker WTF? Well, that was a Thursday by Monday I was shopping for a new bike. A new dealer just opened locally, I give them a call knowing that the blue/black was the hot color that year. I am told that they have it in the crate. I speed down there after work and tell them I want the blue/black 750. Well, I come to find out that they haven't had that color in weeks. It's amazing how fast you get the manager when you start screaming bait and switch in a crowded new dealer. The next two weeks were painful, they ordered me a bike in the color I wanted and kept telling me, just a few more days, just a few more days. At this point no other dealers that I contacted had the color so I was stuck. Finally, it arrives after the dealer closes on a Friday night, two weeks after my accident. I did get a free first service and t shirt out of it though.:D

http://d.imagehost.org/0132/b1_1.jpg http://d.imagehost.org/0857/b2.jpg Year: 07 Model: Gixxer Eng size: 1000 Pipe: Hines CS One Polished Seat: Oneida Gel Wheels: Polished Assassins Accessories/other mods: Velocity stage 1 Turbo 8 PSI Stage 3 commander 240 kit powder coated stainless Brake line extended 40 toothed polished sprocket Heavy Duty 530 X-Ring Chain 150 Links 240 Pirelli Diablo Rear Tire Polished sliders Heavy Duty Rear Shock Spring Custom Radial Cut Front Rotor w/ Chrome Carrier And the story: Well after riding slightly modified stock bikes for 10years I decided to put the lady on the back burner and spend some cash before I died. Being In the same town as Roaring toyz and watching their busa's take the main stage all the time I figured why not a gixxer, Having owned several bikes and trashing them, Wrecks, Stunts etc I figured I would slow down a bit and ride something that would be a head turner. This bike is fast, sleek and screams at a throttle twist. Smoked most local bikes I decided to test it at the track and well ya know how it goes, once ya go turbo theres nothing else like it. I love this bike having completed most of the conversions myself I am proud to say that this is my master piece.

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Ill toss my hat back in this month... with a few more pics Year: 2003 Model: Suzuki GSXR Eng size: 600-Turbo Pipe: Hand fabricatec Seat: Chuey's Customs... Leather and died alligator over gel seat Wheels: Billet RC Componants Accessories/other mods... Engine = TBR turbo kit, hand fabricated intake plenum, one off hand fabricated exhaust, ported an polished head, TBR mapped and tuned PC III, Upgraded high flow fuel pump, drag race setup engine kill switch and tether. Body = Full custom paint using PPG and House of Kolor paint, painted backside of all fairings and stock mirrors, hand pinstriped around the graphics with a matching helmet, and full custom undertail with integrated tail light and turn signals, smoked DB windscreen, dual H4 HID conversion, custom upholstered seat using died orange alligator skin and leather, Hotbodies racing flush mount signals, custom orange gauge face, powder coated rear master cylinder, real carbon fiber intake ducts. Polished = Full frame, swingarm custom fabricated +8”, subframe, front rotors, custom CNC milled clutch and brake levers with painted centers, rear sets, passenger pegs and brackets, exhaust, intake plenum, charge pipe, RC Component Fluid billet wheels and hubs, axel hardware, sprocket specialties 530 chain conversion sprockets, rear wave rotor, brake fluid covers, upper and lower triple trees, strut with powder coated orange spring, all mounting hardware. Chrome = upper fairing brace, front and rear calipers, kickstand and hardware, gas cap, frame sliders, license place bracket, bar ends, clutch cover, stator cover, front sprocket cover, 530 chain, brake lines, boost gauge bracket, fully adjustable lowering links and oil filter. I bought this bike bone stock about 4 years ago with the intentions of using it to save money on gas back and forth to college. I chose a 600 because being young that’s all I could afford insurance on. Once I began to do all the small modifications, the addiction took off. Blinkers and a windshield turned into a full exhaust and power commander. Polished levers and bar ends turned into a fully polished frame and swing arm. And riding with guys on bigger 1000’s and busa’s meant I needed something to keep up and so came the turbo kit. Making a little over 90hp to the wheel from the factory its now upwards of 145hp with a modest 6lbs of boost and pump gas. With the t25 kit, custom intake manifold, upgrades to the fuel pump, different sprockets and a good sticky tire keeping up wasn’t a problem any more. Once I got to that point it was clear that there was going to be no end in sight and my money saving bike was going to drain my wallet. Being a full time student and having a part time job there was other priorities that had to come first… like food. I ended up looking for cheaper ways and buying used parts, rebuilding broken or discarded parts out of “the box” in the garage that had all the parts taken off other bikes I had worked on for side jobs. And the best resource for any builder on a budget… eBay! I didn’t have an unlimited budget like most full custom bikes built by shops, and definitely had limited resources when it came to tools and space to work but I made do. MirrorLook Customs played a huge part in getting the bike to where its at with the polish work and the paint job. It’s a solid deep orange with House of Kolor graphics, and then hand pinstriped in yellow around the edges with a helmet to match. The chrome and polish work is second to none and holds up on a bike that sees a lot more than the inside of a trailer. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/royalpane/IMG_2141b.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/royalpane/IMG_2144b.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/royalpane/l_5ce69e7b5acc14de3367a3e25573cc1e.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/royalpane/l_5c2ec57a26219739c4a9b30b67f4260a.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/royalpane/l_2ebfdef32af75473d3e6c3cbecc1ca7e.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/royalpane/l_0258645c75c5ff7628193f6334ac0407.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/royalpane/IMG_2069b.jpg

Year: 2001 Model: Hayabusa Eng size: 1300 (1299 for u technical people out there) Pipes: M4 Titanium Header with Carbon Fiber can Seat: Stock with Pearl white carbon fiber *look* covers Wheels: Stock with polished lip Accessories/other mods: Lowered 1 1/2 inchs up front, 2 1/4 inches in the rear, Power Commander II, +6 inch Catalyst fiberglass tail, +6 inch Catalyst fiberglass undertail, +6 inch swing arm extenders, +4 Tiger racing belly wing, '99 Alum. Subframe, Alum. "Hayabusa" Triple Tree, "Hayabusa" grips, PAZZO black/silver levers, C/F front fender, Tiger Racing LSR alum. chain guard, C/F painted inner panels, C/F look mirrors, AirTech Slammed fiberglass gas tank, PUID GSXR 1300 Double Bubble, Vortex -1/ +2 steel sprockets, EK 530ZZZ gold chain, MPS air shifter, PUIG smoke DB, BMC Race Filter, Clear Alternatives clear turn signals / tail light, Galfer S/S front/rear/clutch lines, triple chrome screens, Muzzy alum. fan and engine ice, APE P.A.I.R valve block of plates, APE Clutch, APE HD springs, APE high volume oil gear, 1 piece clutch hub, Clear Clutch cover, APE cam chain tensioner, Intake cam mod, Shinko R003 120/70 & 200/50, 8k H.I.D. low beam, silverstar high beam. not pictured: Belly wing and chain guard, they r out with a few other parts (drv/psg rear sets, rims, ect) getting powder coated pearl white. waiting 4 those 2 b done so i can install the nitrous and Air shifter and get it tuned and some dyno tunes/maps made. also frame covers not shown because they are getting painted 2 match the rest of the bike and white fairing screws. And the story: Hmm, I started off with an new '02 R6, had it for a few years and put 20k miles on it and wanted to upgrade. I almost bought an R1 but found a great deal on this bike late in '05. I drove to L.A. and road it home to phx. bought it with 29xx miles on it, and now after MANY road trips, mexico trips, ect.. shes about 2 turn over 40k miles. Now that this $ pit is "almost" done, im prob gonna pick up a 2nd busa and turn 1 into a show bike so i can stop messing up this paint job and turn the other into a street/strip bike so i cant feel and wanna off myself if i lay this 1 down. *some semi-recent pics* http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/5689/p1000228sp8hu6.jpg http://a442.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/18/l_d1e09d4a9439772692db70bc8266d441.jpg http://a714.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/27/l_367fdf10f67c4071203d0ff84016d689.jpg http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/6333/p1000273rq7.jpg