Yet another CX500 update

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Are you feline it now Mr Krabs?

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Holes drilled, seat is now bolted on! I ziptied the seat center support (which is the part that holds my weight) in place for test fitting and also ziptied the rear fender in. I have no clue how I’m going to mount that fender for real.

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The footpegs for the CX are offset towards the front. However, left to right they are perfect mirror images so if I swap them left to right I get footpegs offset to the rear. I’ll need to hack some length out of the brake pedal and re-weld it, and then add that same length into the shifter for super ghetto rearsets.

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View from the seat

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The seating position with the slimmer cafe style seat is way better. I can actually tuck in and hug the tank if I want to, plenty of control and room to stand up, and it’s not TOTALLY neck breaking for cruising.

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Tacked the seat support

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It’s been a while since I welded. Meh.

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Nice.

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Cleaning up some wiring sins. Need to find a decent starter button but I had other stuff that needed doing tonight so I had to stop for now. Hopefully tomorrow my engine gasket will get here. Later tonight I need to split my carbs apart and replace a few o-rings to hopefully stop the gas-tastrophe that has occurred.