[Chain]

A friend of mine just finished up with his custom RC51. I think you guys will like it, so I'm posting a couple photos which I took in his garage yesterday.

I apologize for the indoor pics in relatively poor light; we were busy trying to get out the door after rebuilding my suspension so we could ride (more on that in another post).

He's put the bike on quite a diet. In fact, he's got a cardboard box full of stuff that he stripped off the bike in an effort to lighten it, and he's replaced virtually EVERY nut, bolt and fastener with new pieces made of titanium. He's got a customized pale blue Zero Grav windscreen, blue anodized forks, carbon fiber mirrors with built-in turn signals, Sharkskinz bodywork and a whole host of other odds and ends that I'll never begin to remember.

I think the best feature has got to be the stunning RC30 inspired paint. It's as nice a paint job as I've ever seen...

[ND4SPD]

Nice bike, but why would he put mirrors like that on a trackbike?

[freq]

Originally Posted by ND4SPD

Nice bike, but why would he put mirrors like that on a trackbike?

this track bike has built in turnsignals and an "endurance" type headlight. i'd be willing to bet this bike sees street duty.

[showmethebombs]

NICE!

[Chain]

Originally Posted by freq

this track bike has built in turnsignals and an "endurance" type headlight. i'd be willing to bet this bike sees street duty.

Yep, exactly right. It's fully compliant with local vehicle code. He's got an SV and a Ducati 749R for the track (one of only 240 in the States this year!).

[freq]

Originally Posted by Chain

Yep, exactly right. It's fully compliant with local vehicle code.

Unlike ND4SPDs 600rr.

Chain, you consider that license plate location legal?

All joking aside,beautiful machine, it's a toss-up between that and Abtechs machine. I'd almost have to give Chains friend the nod just for the fact it's "street legal".

[Heavy-Dee]

Why would he ruin it w/ Yosh pipes?

[freq]

Originally Posted by Heavy-Dee

Why would he ruin it w/ Yosh pipes?

Chains was his advisor in the exhaust department.

[Heavy-Dee]

Originally Posted by freq

Chains was his advisor in the exhaust department.

I take it the dude has a few more on order as well as at least two stored in the garage to be swapped out at a moments notice.

HD

[Chain]

Originally Posted by freq

Unlike ND4SPDs 600rr.

Chain, you consider that license plate location legal?

All joking aside,beautiful machine, it's a toss-up between that and Abtechs machine. I'd almost have to give Chains friend the nod just for the fact it's "street legal".

LOL at the ND comment.

You can actually see it from behind and he has it illuminated with white LEDs.



Agreed, abtech's bike is uber-sweet too.

[Chain]

Originally Posted by freq

Chains was his advisor in the exhaust department.

LOL, yeah, he's a big fan of Yoshimura as well. Too funny!

[Fire929blade]

That fat pig (no pun intended ) is looking GREAT The RC30 paint scheme is nothing but wonderful to me Give your homie my thumbs up!!

[G-Man]

FWIW, unless that pencil headlight has a DOT stamp on it, it is not street legal. Catch a cop on a bad day and see what happens.

As for the RC30 paint scheme, I think it looks much better on the original bike (but I'm a little biased).

[roadrunner954]

Originally Posted by G-Man

FWIW, unless that pencil headlight has a DOT stamp on it, it is not street legal. Catch a cop on a bad day and see what happens.

As for the RC30 paint scheme, I think it looks much better on the original bike (but I'm a little biased).

The pig looks just fine

[Chain]

Originally Posted by G-Man

FWIW, unless that pencil headlight has a DOT stamp on it, it is not street legal. Catch a cop on a bad day and see what happens.

That's pretty funny ... I'm a police officer myself and the owner asked me to go over the bike with a fine-toothed comb in one hand, a copy of our state traffic code in the other, and in my professional opinion, he's fully compliant where he lives.

[Chain]

Originally Posted by G-Man

As for the RC30 paint scheme, I think it looks much better on the original bike (but I'm a little biased).

This guy's bike has alot of metalflake in some of the colors and a pearlescence to the white that really grabs your eye in the sunlight. In any case, he painted the bike this way as a tribute to (not as a duplicate of) the RC30.

[LDH]

How come Clayton didn't come post it himself? He lives for that stuff.

[abtech]

Originally Posted by G-Man

FWIW, unless that pencil headlight has a DOT stamp on it, it is not street legal. Catch a cop on a bad day and see what happens.

As for the RC30 paint scheme, I think it looks much better on the original bike (but I'm a little biased).

My RC30 came in an entirely different paint scheme. It was all red except for the number plate backgrounds.

BTW, beautiful RC Chain!

[ReaperAZ]

No offense intended towards your friends RC, it looks great, but I would take LDH's any day. Every time I see the pics of that thing on RC51.org I just want to trade in my 954 and get an RC....man that thing has sooooo many usefull goodies on it.

Dano

[Chain]

Originally Posted by LDH

How come Clayton didn't come post it himself? He lives for that stuff.

He spends more of his time in the Nebraska Motorcycle Rider's Yahoo Group than he does forums like these.

Nice RC you've got there, btw.

[Chain]

Originally Posted by ReaperAZ

No offense intended towards your friends RC, it looks great, but I would take LDH's any day. Every time I see the pics of that thing on RC51.org I just want to trade in my 954 and get an RC....man that thing has sooooo many usefull goodies on it.

Dano

No doubt, LDH's RC looks like it's had a few bucks spent on it, mostly in the gofast department.

[abtech]

Originally Posted by Chain

No doubt, LDH's RC looks like it's had a few bucks spent on it, mostly in the gofast department.

You mean mostly in the Goldfast department right?

[Chain]

Both.