Started to design my new tailsection

[devil dogmorgan1]

Made a mock up of a tail section for my bike today. Mind you it's only a mock up. Needs a lot of trimming yet. Trying to save some money by doing it myself. 1st time trying, going to be using a 1999 Honda CBR900RR tail light, and move the turn signals off of the side. Thinking of using some LED mini lights in the tail. Going to paint the bike (when finished) white and the swing arm and rims powder coated white. Also going to get all of the graphic's used on Kevin Schwantz 1989 Suzuki RVG500 Pepsi bike. The seat will be custom and covered in pepsi blue. Also thinking of running gixxer suspension, or sending mine to race tech, not sure yet.

[devil dogmorgan1]

A little trimming done and paint.

[jbo197]

Nice box ~

[streebs93]

This appears to have potential for the ugliest tail section i've ever seen..... GOOD WORK!

[PepeBouchard]

Looking forward to seeing it. Have you considered blue wheels to go with the seat? I've always liked a pearl white bike, but I always seem to end up with black!

[devil dogmorgan1]

Here is the bike I'm copying. Need to do some trimming to the side's. This is the 1st time trying to make something like this.

[Katpilot36]

good start on the mock up, should look good when it's finished. keep us posted on the progress

[teddy]

some of you guys are being a bit harsh...it's just a mock-up! i can see where he's trying to go with it, just need some refining.....

[JModified]

It should look good, I admire anyone that can do bodywork. I am like a kindergartner with crayons when it comes to cosmetics. Cant wait to see your finished bike.

[Kano1017]

keep posting the updates, looking good

[JokerZwild]

some of you guys are being a bit harsh...it's just a mock-up! i can see where he's trying to go with it, just need some refining.....

+1000 Seems to be a lot of that going around here lately

[HemiKat]

What do you plan on making it of? Fiberglass? I think cardboard is a little hard to make a mock up of, I always use MDF. It takes more work but it is more durable and can be used multiple times. But Ive used carboard, just line it with aluminum foil when you lay your mat.

--Looks good so far, but it may be easier just to see if Mreedohio would let you make a copy of his.

[loudnlow7484]

If it were my bike, I'd use green plant foam to make the mock-up. Or if I couldn't find any, I'd glue pieces of blue-board together. Either way, cardboard is going to limit the contour that you can give it (and on a jellybean shaped bike like the 98+ kat, it will need some curves).

Using cardboard, you're setting this up to be a month-long project. If you use foam, carve it until you've got the shape right, cover it in masking tape and mold it...... this could be all wrapped up in less than a week worth of spare time.

[izzy]

I've heard that an electric turkey knife works well on carving the foam into shape. I am interested to see how it turns out. Looks like a cool idea!

[csjcsj]

Good luck