79 Tracker Project

[SovietMike]

So I'm pretty new here but here is my second project bike it is a 79 GL1000 with bags and a Vetter ss fairing and my goal is to turn it into a tracker style bike bags are frozen to the rack and my helmet keepers are frozen but other than that she works great first I have to mess with the front brakes and do timing belts and only 34k on her and someone put Jardine pipes on her too

[desertrefugee]

Now you're talking! '78-'79s are cool. Then again, I might be a little biased.

[SovietMike]

Got the fender chopped up and mounted waiting for my new brake light and turn signals

[TNTbefree]

That looks like some Samsonite luggage bags on her. I could see a gorilla jump on those, no harm done. Nice bike though.

[Track T 2411]

Looks like a good, solid bike to start with. I'm playing with a '78 myself, but too many summer projects have taken over. I'll be curious to see what you come up with...

[SovietMike]

That looks like some Samsonite luggage bags on her. I could see a gorilla jump on those, no harm done. Nice bike though.

Yeah they are old hondaline bags kinda neat but serve no purpose in my build along with the vetter fairing

[Sagebrush]

That looks like some Samsonite luggage bags on her. I could see a gorilla jump on those, no harm done. Nice bike though.

Yeah they are old hondaline bags kinda neat but serve no purpose in my build along with the vetter fairing

Don't throw them away, plenty of folks have built stripped down bikes on this site only to install bags later on for practical purposes.

[SovietMike]

In actually looking to sell the vetter fairing and bags to fund a whole brake overhaul

[SovietMike]

The bags are frozen to the frame any idea on how to unlock them without breaking the lock or the key?

[TNTbefree]

The bags are frozen to the frame any idea on how to unlock them without breaking the lock or the key?

This is where that gorilla I was talking about would come in handy.

[230Rocket]

Sagebrush is completely correct, we strip them down, make them good, then we plan trips to ride them far and meet up we soon realize that some form of luggage carrying device is needed... even if it's just for beer!

Keep the bags when and if you eventually get them off!

cheers
Dean

[SovietMike]

Actually had some time to work on the wing today! Started fabbing up my turn signal brackets and mounting them here's the progress so far...

[SovietMike]

Got the brake lights mounted have to clean up the brackets and repaint them. I'm making progress though! I hope to paint and wire them up tomorrow

[robin1731]

Your bike but I would have made the tail/brake lights also the turn signals. As is it may make it a bit difficult for someone to see the turn signals when the brake lights are on. At least looking at them in the pics.

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[SovietMike]

Yeah I was also thinking about putting the turn signals in the rear of the seat too