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Alrighty then. For the group buy I dumped a bunch of money in to the bike with the purpose of chroming out the handlebar contols, and putting braided steel cables. That included the brake lines down to the stock calipers. I started last Saturday, and with work being what it was, I wasn't able to finish until this morning (Thursday).
Here's the pics.
Left side:
Right side:
Both sides from rear, you can see the new XM radio I put in last month and didn't get around to posting pics of:
Here's a pretty good shot of the braided brake cable going to the caliper:
Looks great, Mac! Congrats. Better stop with the chrome pretty soon though, or else Skip is going to want to buy it.
Seriously, I may not hate chrome as much as Skip, but I'm not it's biggest fam either, but your bike just looks super. Very tastingly done. Art
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