i sent them an email last week asking if they could do a black or silver centre, and they said their next run of that disc is silver aluminium centre. I was going to get a 282mm yamaha fzr250r front disc from metalgear locally, which has gold steel centres. i cut down another 20mm bearing spacer i had to the right length and bang in it went. I found a later 20mm axle, and i have the captive nut pieces to go in the end of the axle for either and conveniently the tdm850 front wheel bearings as 6303 - 17/47/ are 20/47/14, so all i had to do was replace the original bearings, which were unsealed and had to be replaced anyway. i keep being drawn to this thing, but mainly the motivation was to get the 17mm front axle out of it as it's from my 400ss and i want to start putting it back together soon. maybe just some sticks to plastic filler. but maybe i could just get a plastic tank instead. I was going to use the black fuel injected model tank that is on this bike now on another monster i have, and fix the dented early tank originally from the yellow bike to use on this bike, as the seat shape is being modified anyway and that's the main difference between early and late carby (early efi) model tanks. looks like the 2v model plastic tanks are the same as the 4v ones topside wise at least. the footrests on both are in the same place afaict, although the s4rs had a different seat that is maybe an inch higher than the one on my yellow monster. my knees fit inside it just fine with footrests in front of heel. sure enough, the plastic tank relief is both higher and further forward. Then, after i'd done a road test on a customer's s4rs, it occurred to me that it was different.

so i figured that it didn't really matter so much having my knees poking out. my knees fit under if i have the ball of my foot on the footrest, but that's not a normal suburban position for me. One of my other monsters is back in original trim and almost ready to be sold, and sitting on it my knees stick out past the dent relief with the footrest in front of my heel.

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