The Yamaha Road Star Warrior Forum

Joe,

Thanks for the Tach! It looks awesome! I installed it tonight, and took some pics, so others could see your work. Stock is on the right.

Polished on the right.

On the bike...

Turned that ugly hunk of aluminum into a beautiful work of art!!!

Thanks!

jarv:

 Joe

what goes around comes around.... 

Lets hope heh?

Anyway when are you coming to Europe to help us out?

We can't really sample your services based on the shipping costs making it not viable.

Shame - I could honestly get tempted away from black!

Keep up the good work. I hope this "work" keeps the wolves from the door.

Cheers -  

Jarv, I don't know how I missed your post, but I did.  If you'll pay may fare both ways and put me up while I'm there, I'd be more than happy to come over and do some polishing.  Might be cheaper though to pay the frieght on the aluminum bits rather than me heavy *** and I know the aluminum will eat less.  I'd love to be able to come over and see the mother country, long been a dream of mine.

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Justice,  Aw shucks,  t'weren't nuthin'.  The difference that polished cowl makes after it is installed is really dramatic on the bike, and I'm really glad you like it.

Thanks guys,

CAD

Fellers, I've got a couple of sets of front rotors ready to go if any one wants them, these are the 6 bolt ones that fit the 02-05 models (3-spoke wheels).  Normally these run $45.00 a piece, but because I'm feeling generous and I'm still stoked from WFIV, I'll knock $10.00 off and let you have them for $80.00 for a set (Exchange) and you pay shipping both ways.  I have 2 sets ready to go.

CAD

 Added some pics of tach housing page #1, May 03, 2009. 

CADFather:

jarv:

 Joe

what goes around comes around.... 

Lets hope heh?

Anyway when are you coming to Europe to help us out?

We can't really sample your services based on the shipping costs making it not viable.

Shame - I could honestly get tempted away from black!

Keep up the good work. I hope this "work" keeps the wolves from the door.

Cheers -  

 

Jarv, I don't know how I missed your post, but I did.  If you'll pay may fare both ways and put me up while I'm there, I'd be more than happy to come over and do some polishing.  Might be cheaper though to pay the frieght on the aluminum bits rather than me heavy *** and I know the aluminum will eat less.  I'd love to be able to come over and see the mother country, long been a dream of mine.

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Justice,  Aw shucks,  t'weren't nuthin'.  The difference that polished cowl makes after it is installed is really dramatic on the bike, and I'm really glad you like it.

Thanks guys,

CAD

CADFather:

dino98TA:

Those fender stays look awesome!

 How much to buy them outright? Or could we do a deposit deal Via Paypal?

Shoot me a PM bud!

 

Dino

 

I don't have any stays that I could sell all that I have is the core set, that I got from Independant Lemming and when I get to go back to work someday, they are going on my bike.  You could always just buy a new ones from Yamaha for $285 ea. and I could polish them or you might get lucky and find a used set.  But why not take advantage of the exchange program, it's free.

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Randy, 

My stock answer for everything is about a week, but as everything seems to be taking about a week and a half to get done, give me 2 weeks max for triple trees.

CAD

cad daddy call me asap

919 433 0237

 Check your email i sent you 3 last week

 Cad,

I sent you a pm about parts being sent!

Tim

AlanH:

 

Joe, after looking at page one, I must say and comment, that you do some very outstanding work at reasonable and affordable prices.

 

The new and existing rsw membership are lucky to have a vendor of your stature to exchange parts with. I especially like your windowed rear caliper bracket ....

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Besides the obvious excellent quality of this work, what goes unnoticed, unrecognized and not mentioned is that the person doing the polishing is seasoned and intimate with what are the critical mounting surfaces of all the parts being polished on the Warrior.

When dealing with a Job-Shop polisher/chromer or exchanging with a Vendor it's not uncommon to receive your parts back and find out that they are unsatisfactory or unusable because metal was removed or compromised from areas that should have been left untouched during the prep and polishing stages of the process.

Just my .02 here as i've been down this road ....

Gosh, gee,  I don't know what to say but thank you Alan.  Those kind of words mean a lot coming from someone with your history and knowledge of everything Warrior. 

As you know, I didn't come up with the idea for the rear brake mount window and I was far from the first to do one (and if you promise not to tell anyone I'll let you in on a little secret, that one was the first one that I'd done, SHHHHhhh.) 

Thanks again for the kind words and thank you for your help with Vietz2's gas cap snafu, I thought that was the case with that pin, but wasn't absolutely sure.

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Bucky, PM received.

Cadfather , in his letter AlanH mentions a windowed rear caliper bracket . It got me curious , any pics ? did a quick search but that was the only time I saw it mentioned.

Also do you have a prefered sealer for polished parts if any at all ?

duh , nevermind went to page 1 & there it was .Doh , my bad .

 Jack,

No problem, I really like the look of that Brake Bracket, mine wasn't done but it will be.

CAD

Oh, and for everyone I added some more pictures to page one for the 102 Cam Cover.

Joe,

I just can't thank you enough for the polished tach! Here's an outdoor pic:

Truely a great job! and you can't beat the price!

CAD , What about sealers & polishes for keeping things lookin good

 Justice,

It still amazes me that Yamaha decided to hide all the aluminum under a dipped clearcoat finish and not go ahead and polish it out.  I had a former member named Stilleto (Alan) from Marietta, GA see my swingarm and wheels one day when I was out riding and just ran into him.  He wouldn't believe that they were polished aluminum and swore that they were chromed pieces and actually got down on his knees to check.  Yamaha used some good quality aluminum in stuff like the triple tree, foot peg brackets, and risers they absolutely glow when polished.

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Jack, 

The only thing I recommend using for protectant is when you wax your bike, go ahead and polish the aluminum with your favorite polish I prefer a paste called Semichrome, but have also had good luck with Mother's aluminum polish, and just wax the aluminum as you would the paint and chromed bits.  The wax seals out contaminants and provide a level of protection that is not hard to remove when it's time to polish again.  Clearcoat over polished aluminum works for about a year or so but then the aluminum starts to oxidize under the clear and it's a pain to get to clean.  I'm wanting to try some of the Mother's polishing balls for maintenance polishing and see how they work, but alas no money so no research.  

I've pointed to the pictures of my bike in the ad for reference and noted that it had been several months since I had last detailed the bike and that it had spent several months outside right before those pictures were taken.  I took some of it today to show how well the polished bits had held up and with the exception of a few water spots it still looks good not quite show worthy but still good.  Man I need to get this thing back together, it's been 2 1/2 years already.

CAD

Ok ,Thanks . I look forward to sending ya  some business this fall

Jack