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A cruiser that corners like not-a-cruiser.<\/p><\/div>\n
It has been gloriously vinyl-wrapped by RIP Graphics<\/a><\/strong>. The magnificent Dennis Foran<\/a><\/strong> has caused it to sing the song of its people with a custom-made stainless exhaust system, and George Metzekis<\/a><\/strong> has recovered the seat with the skin of a blood-python I personally slew in single combat in a nearby swamp.<\/p>\n The thing turns heads everywhere I ride it. Not a day goes by that some tattooed beast-man sticks his head out of a ute window and asks me what kind of bike it is I\u2019m trying to squeeze past him in traffic.<\/p>\n They expect me to say \u201cHarley\u201d.<\/p>\n I say \u201cYamaha\u201d.<\/p>\n They are amazed.<\/p>\n \u201cLooks awesome, mate. Sounds bloody good, too.\u201d<\/p>\n And of course, they are right. It does.<\/p>\n But it was being let down by the stock handlebars, which are wonderful and effective examples of their kind. But they are stock and they need to be custom.<\/p>\n And so my search began.<\/p>\n I knew what I wanted, and that was not being forced to change any of the cables by fitting 24-inch apehangers to it, which was what one part of me felt needed to happen.<\/p>\n That being the case, I decided instead upon fat drag bars, risers and some sexy mirrors and grips.<\/p>\n My good mate Peter, who is the sorcerer who rules in the cave of Kenma<\/a><\/strong>, came to party with some fat Ventura (one and \u00bc -inch) black drag-bars, and the next day I was at Motorcycle Accessories Supermarket<\/a><\/strong> in Auburn looking for the other stuff.<\/p>\n Ready to hear all the swearing there is to hear.<\/p><\/div>\n Mirrors were no drama. Scorpion had what I wanted and Avon had the grips I needed.<\/p>\n But the risers\u2026well, if it wasn\u2019t for Daniel behind the Harley spares counter, I would have run screaming into traffic.<\/p>\n Do you know how many different types of risers there are for Harleys?<\/p>\n About 6,876,634, that\u2019s how many.<\/p>\n Do you know how many risers there are for a 2014 Yamaha Roadliner?<\/p>\n Fuck-all.<\/p>\n But Daniel is a man of great wisdom and boasts a familiarity with the various phone-book-thick parts catalogues that beggars belief. He found a pair of risers he reckoned would fit, and I paid my money and ordered them in from the States. They are LA Chopper-brand five-inch Hefty risers. And they weight about forty kilograms each.<\/p>\n I took all these bits out to the techs at Yamaha, dumped them at the loading dock, along with the bike, and ran away.<\/p>\n I should have stayed and taken photos of their faces when they discovered they are now fitting blingy cruiser bits to a Roadliner instead of fooling around with race bikes, but I am not that foolish.<\/p>\n Love your work, blokes. Please don\u2019t be hating on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can I tell you how difficult it is getting meaningful bling for a 2014 Yamaha Roadliner in this backward country of ours? Probably not. And who cares, right? Well, I do. And I have cared ever since Yamaha gave Bike Me! their flagship cruiser. It has been gloriously vinyl-wrapped by RIP Graphics. The magnificent Dennis [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10525,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521\/revisions\/10525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_1529\"](\"http:\/\/bikeme.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_1529.jpg\")