Personalizing a metric cruiser, a Yamaha Star in particular, is no different than personalizing a Harley-Davidson. Riders and owners need the same information thats been available to Harley riders for years and years. How to Customize Your Star gives riders exactly this information, from picking the parts to bolting them onto the motorcycle. Making a bike your own means it has to fit your body. Handlebars and seats are among the first items to be changed and this book shows some of the options available and how to attach those components to your ride. Not everyone has a 36 inch inseam. For reasons of both practicality and aesthetics most custom bikes ride closer to the asphalt that the stock models do. This new book from Wolfgang Publications explains the easiest and safest way to install a lowering kit in the front forks and the rear suspension. The big turn signals and light assemblies that come with stock bikes may meet all the DOT standards, but they're seldom attractive. Smaller, sleeker lights that still put out tremendous amounts of light, are available from the aftermarket. One complete chapter is dedicated to the discussion of lights: whats available and how it should be attached to the motorcycle. Exhaust is another "must change" item for most bike riders. Doug Mitchel offers information on a number of slightly louder and much more powerful alternatives to the stock pipes. He also goes on to show how a fuel injected bike can be modified to run better than stock after the addition of those new pipes and an aftermarket air cleaner. To complete the project bikes conversion from stock to custom, the fenders and tank are taken off, sanded, painted and reinstalled. And each step of the painting process and reassembly are shown so you can duplicate the paint, and all the procedures shown in this book, on your own metric cruiser.

Format: Softbound
Pages: 144
Length: 8.5 x 11.0
ISBN-13: 9781929133659
Catalog ID: 148957

Availability: Not Yet Published - coming 06/01/2009