Suppose the Farkle Gods contact you and have agreed to give you a brand new TW. It's yours to keep, the only stipulation being that you can only add 3 farkles. If you try to be sneaky and fudge the rules, it gets repo'd in the middle of the night as you sleep. In order of importance, what would your 3 farkles/mods be?
Here is my list:
1. Shinko 241
2. X-Ring chain
3. DMO pegs
If they're Farkle God's, they wouldn't limit us to only 3. They're more like Farkle Nazis. I'd say 1) Suspension, 2) Shinko front 3) 15/49 sprocket mod.
1. Wolfman made in U.S.A. Enduro bag. Holds wallet and keys or a dachshund;
2. Oxford Hot Hands (grip heaters-velcro wraps-zero issues with electrical draw);
3. Kick starter...I can sell the crystal ball as to how my battery will treat me.
My most satisfying modification to most any motorcycle I've ever owned are the ones recently performed on my Burgman scooter.
A few weeks after I crashed it I straightened out the mirrors, trimmed a chunk from one side of that brand new windscreen to match the broken side, and I bounced and pried and tweaked all that scratched and busted Tupperware to make it roadworthy again.
Folks ask if the insurance company treated me right and I say "It's a low mileage $1500 scooter. Who cares about that kinda insurance".
Funny thing. I might not have bought the thing if it looked this way in the photo, but I love riding it this way and it is worth $1500 every time I head out on it. It still cruises faster than the TW or the VanVan and is the most comfortable thing this side of my Suburban.
The real beauty of these recent modifications is that I can now carve off all that Tupperware and make a NAKED ADVENTURE SCOOTER!
I talk a big story but it is easy to just leave it all as it is and ride it.
After giving this more thought. I only need one farkle for it. Rack mounted ATM machine with unlimited refills. It can sit in the garage and I'll pimp out a different bike with everything. Loopholes baby! Whoop whoop.
Only 1 vote for larger footpegs..? I bolted on a pair of Krator pegs from Amazon. They were cheap ($30) and yet they really do add some extra comfort. Now I have a lot more wiggle room for my feet - a real improvement.
Ya know! I've had the larger pegs on my bike now for a few months, and few thousand miles now, and is an improvement when standing, but not so much that if I had to stay with the OEM pegs.....I'd been fine. And, I don't have small feet. Maybe why others didn't, maybe not. But, I get your wonderment, as it's definitely brought up often & popular mod.
Luckily they were cheap, so it was a no brainer.
But, wasn't a must have/need for me. That's why they weren't on my list. I chose comfort (bar risers & seat gel pad) and preventive maintenance/wear (X-ring chain).
I wasn't a fan of the big ims pegs that came with mine. I like to hook the heel of my boot on the trailing edge when on the road and the extra wide platform wouldn't let me do it consistently. If they were tilted 15 degrees forward i might have liked them.
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