Hi, Long time no See or How I'm making sure anybody can see me now

Yeah yeah many years with out a post, in fact not even a look on this site, but I think is time to inspire some souls into following their own paths of exploration.

Anyway among the hundreds of ideas i usually have inside my head I think this ones can be of some importance for the community (not only GS rider, bur every rider)

Here are two of the latest "Pennytech" projects from Ricky.

Extra Visual "Passive" aids

Anyway I have a bunch of really old scothlight Tape doing nothing at my house, tons of Red on 5" rolls and then some Super Fugly "Emerald" Green

In short, I'm not a big fan of red in the first place and the green is just much to ugly for anybody taste. so i decide to experiment a little with a old "Texturazing" technic that I learn many years ago and see if I can make some use out of this Fugly tape.

The first attempt was the Ganggreen

Okay just Fugly


Well does not look Half bad now, don't you think...!?


The "black" tape with the Yellow ELS Sticker is 15 years Old and still serving his duty just fine, so hell if I can stand the green I can have a few more years of extra safety (well the plastic tank is going to bubble the sticker no matter what)


The other day I made a small strip of Red just for kicks and I end up liking it a lot..


So i decide ot make some more and cover pretty much the whole bike.


Yeap I know I when a little to far, What else is new


Hey Even the Chesy guys from west coast choppers will dye for a "Flame job" like this.


Here you can find a Bunch more Pictures and someday some updates too

And Now for the really fun experiment



Is No secret (For the old members, at least) that I never been a fan of the whole "PingPong Table windscreens" so over the years I try many other ways to solve the wind noise, turbulence and all the other crappy stuff


In this case a try to make a "Tall screen... On Command" using a "Four bar Linkage" (actually kind of a 3 bar with out a Pan hard rod)

Not to mention you end up with a "Roof headlight" that Illuminates the road like crazy very close in line with your angle of viewing (I need to implement the ergonomic aspect somehow too.)


The linkage parts are as usual made out of bicycle parts (un touch, un modified as much as possible)


From the Bottom.
*JP Morgen stem for clamp, held to the bike via the "Boom" and the main bolt on the front subframe.
* Specialized "Enduro" main link, this is the main part of the "Landing gear" set up.
*The Gold part another FSR linkage to achieve the backwards movement require
*Syncros seat post upper clamp to hold the cheppo fiber glass headlight housing to the bike.


Some how "Medium Height"


Almost down but not Really.


All the way down with two dual beam HID just in case nobody can see the bike coming.


Hay... "KIng of the Lab" or what..??

Here you can find a few More pictures and hopefully some Updates when i get some other stuff figure out.

Ps: I don't really know if I will post on this forum again or even if I will read your comment, but for now enjoy and Please go and work on some of your own dreams and stop wishing somebody make what you really want for your bike.

Ricky

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Cool reflective tape!

Jim

when i saw the bike, i thought to myself, this totally looks like a bike I'd see in SF...

lo and behold.

(i love it.)

Your bike reminds me of that Kevin Costner movie...Waterworld.

Anyhow, I don't have to tell you that the bike is definately unique, in a good way though.

What is that you have on the back? Is it a bike rack?

Dan

Good to see you're still around, Ricky. How's the city treating you?

Say there Ricky Suave. How's life in SF treating you?

As usual your creativity stands out and shows us all a new level to aspire to.

Don't be a stranger 'round these parts.

JJ

I think you will still get nailed but it will me by someone who is mesmerised by the display and just drives over you.

WTF! You will scare small kids with that troll of a bike.
Nice tapejob anyway!

No matter how hard you try its almost impossible to make a GS any uglier, I like the front end
The tape is not bad either

Stewart

Hi Ricky, been a long time.

I hope life is finding you happy and in good health

Let me know if you are ever in the Santa Cruz area


Your friend
Conrad

...love it!

My kind of bike... my kind of guy! Bikes are there to be ridden and fiddled with... next time someone gives me shit about "what I am doing to my bike" I'll just pull a pictures of yours and tell them "I want it to look like this"...

That'll shut them up...

Welcome back, Ricky! It is always great seeing the innovative ideas you come up with. I hope all is going well with you and look forward to seeing more of your posts again.

Ricky is back!!!

Good hearing form you... Trust you are doing well.


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Wow, that's creative. What's your garage look like?

Nice to see you posting again, and showing us what a well used GS should look like

Hola Ricardo.

Me alegro de que sigas bien, hace mucho que no se te veia por aqui.

Sigues teniendo tu 950?

Un saludo
Raul

I would have painted the bike PINK! Oh wait a sec, that's been done already

Awesome Ricky! Good to hear from you!
I love your spirit!!!

Its a drive-by Ricardo posting



Yay! Ricky!!

M

Hey Rad!

You mind sending some of yer weather over here to Tucson? We hit 100+ again.

M