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I'm thinking of getting a tw for a future project and modding it out street tracker style, or I guess 'japan' style, hehe.
I love the look, not too concerned with making it fast, I just want a clean, sharp looking bike.
Several of these pictures are very appealing to me: (sorry, dunno how to post actual pictures)
http://www.roadstar.ne.jp/custom/tw/002.jpg
http://m451.photobucket.com/image/C...11/post 12/post 13/tw200_4_1.jpg.html?src=www
http://m451.photobucket.com/image/C...post 12/post 13/Yamaha-TW-01.jpg.html?src=www
http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/1zSyGz_4XZ4/0.jpg
Anyways, I'm sure you all have seen just about all of these and more but this is the type look I'm going for. I'm getting ideas from all kinds of photos and dreaming up a machine.
This will be my first bike and I know you can still find older tw's for around $2000. I plan to go this route and upgrade over time. It will be a slow build and mod proccess due to money but eventually I'd like it to be what I want.
Here's a short list of things I will be looking for:
2005 and up Yamaha TW200
Shorter Tracker Style seat (seen in several photos)
Round headlight
New lower profile braking lights and signals
New exhaust (underneath)
Longer swingarm
Tracker style handlebars
Gearing change for higher road speed
Maybe a slightly larger gas tank
And other minor upgrades such as gauges etc...
I've spent some time today looking through this site:
http://japan.webike.net/categories/100000_120000_123000_123010.html
Has anyone ordered from this site or is it even possible? I noticed on the pricing of parts it list the US dollar conversion, does that mean they ship to the USA? Is shipping so much it's not worth it? I'm clueless on this stuff!
I know I've seen members rides here and on other forums with the special seats and headlights and pipes and such so I'm just wondering how they went about aquiring these parts.
Sorry for all the questions. I'm curious how easy/hard it's going to be to build up a dream bike of mine or if I'm in way over my head cost and maintenance wise.
Thanks. Sorry for rambling on, it's late and time for bed.
I love the look, not too concerned with making it fast, I just want a clean, sharp looking bike.
Several of these pictures are very appealing to me: (sorry, dunno how to post actual pictures)
http://www.roadstar.ne.jp/custom/tw/002.jpg
http://m451.photobucket.com/image/C...11/post 12/post 13/tw200_4_1.jpg.html?src=www
http://m451.photobucket.com/image/C...post 12/post 13/Yamaha-TW-01.jpg.html?src=www
http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/1zSyGz_4XZ4/0.jpg
Anyways, I'm sure you all have seen just about all of these and more but this is the type look I'm going for. I'm getting ideas from all kinds of photos and dreaming up a machine.
This will be my first bike and I know you can still find older tw's for around $2000. I plan to go this route and upgrade over time. It will be a slow build and mod proccess due to money but eventually I'd like it to be what I want.
Here's a short list of things I will be looking for:
2005 and up Yamaha TW200
Shorter Tracker Style seat (seen in several photos)
Round headlight
New lower profile braking lights and signals
New exhaust (underneath)
Longer swingarm
Tracker style handlebars
Gearing change for higher road speed
Maybe a slightly larger gas tank
And other minor upgrades such as gauges etc...
I've spent some time today looking through this site:
http://japan.webike.net/categories/100000_120000_123000_123010.html
Has anyone ordered from this site or is it even possible? I noticed on the pricing of parts it list the US dollar conversion, does that mean they ship to the USA? Is shipping so much it's not worth it? I'm clueless on this stuff!
I know I've seen members rides here and on other forums with the special seats and headlights and pipes and such so I'm just wondering how they went about aquiring these parts.
Sorry for all the questions. I'm curious how easy/hard it's going to be to build up a dream bike of mine or if I'm in way over my head cost and maintenance wise.
Thanks. Sorry for rambling on, it's late and time for bed.