Somebody asked for photos of my Scrambler with bar-end mirrors, and I'll take this excuse to walk through the mods I've made so far (and what I plan to do in the short-term).
Bike is a "leftover" 2008 I bought in May of '09. I purposely looked for a carb'd bike because I wanted something fairly easy to work on and as true to the originals as possible. I'm not sure it's actually any easier to work on, but I like having old fashioned crap like a "Reserve" setting on the tank, functional choke, idle adjustment, etc. Plus it's pretty easy to add power at-will through simple driveway modification.
Factory add-ons include the tach & headlight "grill" (dealer-installed before I ever found the bike), skid plate, standard Bonnie seat in place of the Solo Seat & Rack that was on it when I bought it, and the color-matched Flyscreen (I'm not real shot in the ass with the way that looks, but it makes a huge difference at 70 mph +). Also swapped the tank badges to ones that look circa 1968 or so, and replaced the mouse ears with CRS LS bar ends.
Perhaps the biggest difference from the standpoint of looks, performance, and nostalgia are the Norman Hyde slip-ons. I don't think I would have paid retail for them, but for $300 off Craigslist I couldn't lose. They sound so much better than the factory TORS it isn't even funny...not louder, just better. The TORS are "blatty" and these Hydes just sound sweet. Along with the exhaust mods I went to 115 main jets and pulled the snorkel.
Next up: I suppose that piss-cup master cylinder has to go now that the mouse ears aren't there to draw attention away from it. I'll also probably put a gel Scrambler seat on it; I like the looks of the Bonnie seat from an originality standpoint but it's sculpted in a way that just isn't comfortable. An airbox removal kit and bigger jets are on the way, and I'll probably spring for one of the Triumph City Bags so I can commute on this beast.
Bike is a "leftover" 2008 I bought in May of '09. I purposely looked for a carb'd bike because I wanted something fairly easy to work on and as true to the originals as possible. I'm not sure it's actually any easier to work on, but I like having old fashioned crap like a "Reserve" setting on the tank, functional choke, idle adjustment, etc. Plus it's pretty easy to add power at-will through simple driveway modification.
Factory add-ons include the tach & headlight "grill" (dealer-installed before I ever found the bike), skid plate, standard Bonnie seat in place of the Solo Seat & Rack that was on it when I bought it, and the color-matched Flyscreen (I'm not real shot in the ass with the way that looks, but it makes a huge difference at 70 mph +). Also swapped the tank badges to ones that look circa 1968 or so, and replaced the mouse ears with CRS LS bar ends.
Perhaps the biggest difference from the standpoint of looks, performance, and nostalgia are the Norman Hyde slip-ons. I don't think I would have paid retail for them, but for $300 off Craigslist I couldn't lose. They sound so much better than the factory TORS it isn't even funny...not louder, just better. The TORS are "blatty" and these Hydes just sound sweet. Along with the exhaust mods I went to 115 main jets and pulled the snorkel.
Next up: I suppose that piss-cup master cylinder has to go now that the mouse ears aren't there to draw attention away from it. I'll also probably put a gel Scrambler seat on it; I like the looks of the Bonnie seat from an originality standpoint but it's sculpted in a way that just isn't comfortable. An airbox removal kit and bigger jets are on the way, and I'll probably spring for one of the Triumph City Bags so I can commute on this beast.
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