With this 99 CBR that I got, I'm really leaning towards going naked with it. I have always liked the wide open naked look where the bike is really seen as a bike (rather than a big plastic thing on 2 wheels) and since all the plastic for my bike is trashed anyways, no point buying new. Over the past days I had been searching for inspiration (mostly with the headlight) and came across the 2011 CB1000R.

[ULR]http://2wheelmotors.info/honda/new-nakedbike-2011-honda-cb1000r/[/ULR]

So I'm leaning to that right now. Figured I'd post it up in case others were not aware of its existence.

Also came across a street fighter forum where some guys used gas masks over their twin lights and I thought it looked pretty cool as well (I'll hold on to that idea for a future bike project).

 

Goin' fighter-ish aye? ;-) Proceed w/ vigor! Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

At the speed you seem to be attacking your rebuild, it shouldn't be long! ;-)

 

Yeah, I have always had a thing for the fighter style. Don't want to go WAAAAY overboard/mad max style with this bike (which is why I'll restrain myself on the gas mask for now), but it is certainly tempting. There is a how-to for carbon fiber wrapping a tank on here and it was an instant "I know what I'm doing" moment.

I know I'm dead set on a small turbo. Plan to hang it off merged primaries right behind the front tire (partially why I'm going naked.... what's the point of a turbo if you can't see it?). HP isn't the big goal of the turbo, I just think it looks sexy. The fab work myself as I have the equipment, it will just be parts collecting that takes time. So the thing that will slow me down will be the funding. The strip down is cheep/free, funding the back together might take a bit more. ;-)