Tonight I made a couple more improvements to the rex.  The first of which was replacing the stock radiator supports that I’ve been putting off for a month now because of other work being done on the bike and most recently spending too much time riding to do anything else to it.  When I picked the bike up at auction a month and a half ago the right side radiator support was broken where it connected to the frame so there wasn’t any support other than the bolts it was hanging from on that side.  Not to mention the horn and it’s mount was missing from that support as well.  So I finally broke down and swapped the stockers out for the shiny new ELS mounts.  Here is a side by side view of stock versus ELS.  I also had to remove my one remaining horn for now because I don’t have a place to mount it.  I need to look into a horn relocation kit or figure out something to fab up to re-mount it around the radiator area.

Next up was installing the RAM mounting system for my phone.  That way I can use it for navigation, GPS speedo since the stocker is around 10% off or music.  Though I will say that not having music hasn’t been an issue thus far riding around town as I am just enjoying myself too much to miss it.  However, if I make a long trip on it over boring interstate I am sure it will get some use for tunes then.  I used the threaded hole on the left side that the stock mirror was in to mount the base in then their medium length arm connected to the universal X-Grip phone holder.  As you can see from the picture, the arm turned out to be entirely too long putting the phone too high off the bars.  I had thought the shorter version was going to be TOO short but by being 1.31″ less than this arm, it would likely be the perfect height.  I will probably go ahead and order the shorter arm to replace this one along with another mounting ball to go in the other empty mirror mount hole in case I ever want to mount anything else on the bars.

Another item that I added was the Omni-Cruise throttle locker.  It does a decent job of holding the throttle at a set level, though it does slowly slip no matter how much I tighten down the set screw.  But it does a good enough job so that you can flex and shake out the throttle hand some when it starts to bother you.

One day next week I really need to work on getting the suspension configured.