Custom Motorcycles - What can kuryakyn do for you? - Video guide - Tip of the week

This week’s Cruiser Customizing tip of the week: What can KuryAkyn do for you? In this section we’re going to take a bunch of parts from KuryAkyn, from the front to rear, and in separate segments show you how KuryAkyn can completely transform the attitude and look of your machine. Take a look. For this particular tip I’m going to use photos from our RoadStar build that we did for RoadBike Magazine in the May 2008 issue. This is the card of KuryAkyn parts that we used to bolt onto this RoadStar to give it this custom chromed-out look. Let’s start with the front end. We took an HID headlight, KuryAkyn driving light bar, and turn-signal mirrors, and turned the bike from this before to this after. We then went to the end of the bars to install these grips and these grill covers and this is the transformation that took place. Next we moved on to the foot pegs and floorboards. These are the foot pegs that we installed on this RoadStar. Here are the front and rear floorboards we started with, along with the stock shift lever and pedal cover. Here’s the floorboard covers, shift peg cover, highway pegs, and here are the rear pegs after installation. As we moved to the back of the bike, we wanted to clean up the swing arm, the frame cover, and the pulley. This is the transformation that took place after installing these parts here. Such a dramatic transformation--here are the parts, here is the stock bike, and this is what those parts do to this great machine. We then moved to the engine, where we installed these parts and came up with this result. Here is the stock engine, and here is the right side and left side after modifications. Next we moved to the tail section of this bike where we tore off the stock turn signals and license plate frame, and added this slick unit. Before buttoning up this project, we removed the wheels and replaced them with some performance machine wheels as well as a Vance and Heinz set of exhaust pipes. Over 95% of the parts used in this build were from KuryAkyn and they allowed us to take this stock RoadStar and transform it into a bike that would appear on the cover of RoadBike Magazine. The purpose of this tip of the week is to show you the vast amount of parts available for every Metric cruiser out there, to give you an idea of what you can do with just a couple parts, and how you can drastically change the look and attitude of your bike by adding these parts to your machine. In closing, I’d like to say that KuryAkyn provides instructions that are really easy to follow and most all of their parts are simply installed by most of the average users at home in their garage. Thanks again to all the great guys and gals at KuryAkyn who allow us to take pride in our ride. Thank you for watching this week’s Cruiser Customizing tip of the week. For a list of part numbers seen here today, take a look at the blog story that I have put up about this video. Until next week, take care and ride safe.