Spent the day saturday doing something I've been wanting to do for a loooong ass time and finally got around to (or finally bought all the parts, rather, lol). I'll let the pics tell the story
So as much as I liked how comfy my stock seat setup was, I was just getting tired of the fugly banana look
Just my luck, somebody on cbrforum.com was selling nearly everything I needed to do the swap! He has an '06 F4i and was gonna do it, but started messing around making his own custom seat cowl and did that instead, and sold the parts to me!
Since my bike ain't silver, first in order was to get the tail painted. My buddy Jonny did an absolutely OUTSTANDING job on the paint!
I totally suprised myself... I put the decals on and actually got them [for the most part]... straight! Also with no bubbles or ripples! The Honda decal in the back is ever so slightly crooked though, so gotta redo that one it's gonna drive me nuts
Next on the list, the yellow pillion seat. The upholstery shop my work uses was supposed to pick it up from my work on thursday, but they forgot while they were there, so it never happened. Sooo I did this just for temporary use for the weekend. They picked it up this morning to be re-covered in black. I used a black fabric paint/dye stuff, actually worked pretty good!
Got that done
Next thing... 01-03 F4i's had a black frame and subframe, while mine ('04+) had a silver frame. Of course I want it to match, so I take the aircraft stripper to the front (visible) half of the new subframe to make it silver. It's stubborn though, there's still some spots that the paint just would not come off period... gonna have to take the dremel to it
Time to start ripping the bike apart
Ready to start the install
The wiring harness was a PITA to get routed properly
Finally got it though
And after getting the LED integrator light properly wired, and double checking everything to make sure everything was tight..... VIOLA!
This was cool too... the dinky wires on my lighted license plate light bolts were too short, and I got frusterated trying to get them wired and said '*** it!!'. I didn't even realize that this beastly new integrator light also has built in 3 white LED's that shine down right onto the plate...SWEEEET!! So now I don't even need to worry about that
The daytime pictures came out MUCH better! You can really see how well the paint came out
As you can probably tell I'm quite happy with the results! IMHO I think it looks WAAAAAAY better than with the banana. Found out today on our lil 270 something mile ride through Snake Rd, then all the way around Lake Ockeechobee (it's a big lake!!), that it's most definitely NOT as comfy as the old seat, but that's alright a Corbin can fix that. I like this one too cuz I can slide around on it, the old one it was very hard to. Anyways, I'm happy with it... no regrets!
-Jared
Black/Red '04 CBR 600 F4i, 139,600 miles and counting quick
Black '89 Accord LX-i sedan, 390,500 miles and going strong!
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