Got the Street home today and immediately did the first mod that I do to all HD's. Took that sticker off of the air breather that says motorcycles are dangerous.

Also I checked if it had a tender standard that HD has done in other models starting with the 14's. Nope! I have a supply that comes with the tenders I so removed the seat to get at the battery posts. The battery is covered with a caddy that holds about 6 or seven connectors from various wire looms.

Very difficult to get out. The caddy is wider than the spread of the fame and being just over the battery and under the frame there was little room to tip one side up. I removed the starter solenoid which is to the rear of the space and protrudes over the back of the caddy. Then I took all the connectors off. Just came up with enough wiggle room to remove it. Hooked up the pig tail and replaced everything which was more difficult than removing. I got the owners manual out (I like to learn by trial and error instead of reading it first).

I saw that what I did was the proper method. I then noticed that the instructions showed that the battery could not come out the top. It required that you do what I did first - remove both side covers, remove main fuse, remove seat, remove caddy then the negative and positive cables.

Now on the right side remove the cover for the front belt guard, remove the side caddy that hold fuse boxes and other connectors. Now you are ready to pull the battery out the side of the battery box.

It seems if you build a small bike there is not much room to put stuff.

I removed the seat passenger strap as it is bolted to the frame and the seat must be slipped under it for removal. I don't carry passengers so the foot pegs went next.

Now, I can plan the real mods.

 

Pics!? What are you going to do to it?

 

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I kinda like the look of the 750 EXCEPT the mini fairing. If/when I buy one that will be the first mod I do [maybe the sticker would be first <g>].


Have you had the fairing off? If so, how does the bike look without it?

 

Congrats on the new bike and good luck with the mod's.

 

pull the damned reflectors off too....

 

I did the sticker first thing too,on my Iron. Looking forward to see a modded Street 750

 

ROFLMAO - I like your first mod. I'm also a Street 750 owner and I'd recommend another inexpensive modification... moving that ugly "Chinese" looking horn that Harley stuck out on the left side of the motorcycle. There is a simple bracket kit that eliminates that ugliness by moving the horn inside of the frame behind the radiator. The bracket kit is available on Ebay. It takes about 10 minutes to relocate the horn and gets rid of the one serious appearance issue on the Street 500/750 motorcycles.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/121493366399...84.m1558.l2649

 

How was the first ride?

 

I want to see what can be done with one of these bikes. Keep the updates coming.

 

In the process of stipping down my Street 750 I checked out what it would look like with a different "old school" headlight.




Mounting it directly moved it too far inside of the forks, as you might notice in the picture above, so I fabricated a couple of brackets to move it about 2" forward.




The stock headlight is really designed for use with the fairing and looks a bit weird without the fairing.