Just Got Bike and Looking for Farkle suppliers

TenereGUY

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Just got a 2017 ST last night. It has the stock hand guards that most likely need an upgrade. Needs a quality belly pan of some kind to protect that. I have a source for aux lights. Who makes excellent LED head lamps. The stock ones didn't seem bright enough to be LED. Is there a forum member who makes some type of dash plate to span the open gap side to side on the horizontal plain just below the vertical dash? Any ideas or suggestions are welcome! Are there good companies out there for suspension upgrades? I usually use Traxxion Dynamics suspension or DMR in Indiana for that.
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Guy

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Just got a 2017 ST last night. It has the stock hand guards that most likely need an upgrade. Needs a quality belly pan of some kind to protect that. I have a source for aux lights. Who makes excellent LED head lamps. The stock ones didn't seem bright enough to be LED. Is there a forum member who makes some type of dash plate to span the open gap side to side on the horizontal plain just below the vertical dash? Any ideas or suggestions are welcome! Are there good companies out there for suspension upgrades? I usually use Traxxion Dynamics suspension or DMR in Indiana for that.
Cheers,
Guy

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Check in the vendors section and you'll find the dash you're looking for. As for LED headlights, send a PM to @deftoner (also in vendors section) and orderr some extended headlight caps and then you can run any H7 LEDs you can find on Amazon.
As for the bash plate and crash bars, Sierra1 is right. T-Rex make great stuff. I've got them on mine and can't recommend them enough, especially at that price.

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Just got a 2017 ST last night. It has the stock hand guards that most likely need an upgrade. Needs a quality belly pan of some kind to protect that. I have a source for aux lights. Who makes excellent LED head lamps. The stock ones didn't seem bright enough to be LED. Is there a forum member who makes some type of dash plate to span the open gap side to side on the horizontal plain just below the vertical dash? Any ideas or suggestions are welcome! Are there good companies out there for suspension upgrades? I usually use Traxxion Dynamics suspension or DMR in Indiana for that.
Cheers,
Guy

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The search box is your friend because the list would so long.

After 12 years of what is essentially a single model (Gen2 started 2014) we have threads for every accessory you can think of and some you haven't yet.

Note that I've moved your question to a sub-forum all about accessories. Click around here and on the other sub-forums.
 

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Cyclops has the most expensive LED kit, I’ve tried a different brand that was pretty highly recommended here but my opinion they weren’t worth crap so I switched back to the far superior and much more expensive Cyclops brand.

I have the TRex crashbars and skid plate, my opinion they are much cheaper to buy than most other brands and the quality is better, installed them myself without much trouble and I’m just a rookie mechanic.

i have been perfectly happy with the plastic Yamaha handgaurds for the past 90,000+ miles, but it does seem like lots of folks switch to something else.
 
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Personally run Barkbusters, their bar end weights and their large Storm guards to keep the 30 degree blasts (and Tusk shields) on the cold early morning commutes. Honestly the OEM guards aren't bad, what I didn't like is they're attached to the levers. I personally like to keep my levers rotated down as I stand alot offroad and that effectively rotates the OEM guards down and away from your hands. The BB bolt to the bars.

Everyone else gave you top advice on the other stuff.
 

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I run the Barkbusters also, the first time I dropped the bike offroad the OE guard on the right side broke.
The OE guard have great wind protection and will survive a tip over but if you offroad they may not. While the Barkbuster may break or bend the idea is to protect the levers as much as possible from getting broken.
 

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here is a link on suspension adjustment that is very well done on this site you should see before you start replacing parts.
after readjusting mine per this link I am very happy with the stock components.

 

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T-Rex racing; $495 for both pieces + free shipping.

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Bought the belly pan... really liked the bars too. This bike has the lower AltRider bars so I bought upper AltRider bars. The T-REX protection of the lower engine casings had me thinking hard about swapping them out though.

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Check in the vendors section and you'll find the dash you're looking for. As for LED headlights, send a PM to @deftoner (also in vendors section) and orderr some extended headlight caps and then you can run any H7 LEDs you can find on Amazon.
As for the bash plate and crash bars, Sierra1 is right. T-Rex make great stuff. I've got them on mine and can't recommend them enough, especially at that price.

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I definitely will check out those extended caps! I really like Electrical Connection headlight bulbs. But I have another source too that's suuper bright. Both are sooo much brighter than what's in there now.

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Personally run Barkbusters, their bar end weights and their large Storm guards to keep the 30 degree blasts (and Tusk shields) on the cold early morning commutes. Honestly the OEM guards aren't bad, what I didn't like is they're attached to the levers. I personally like to keep my levers rotated down as I stand alot offroad and that effectively rotates the OEM guards down and away from your hands. The BB bolt to the bars.

Everyone else gave you top advice on the other stuff.
I rotate my levers too and I noticed that they were attached to the levers. I didn't know that the BB attached differently. That just moved there importance up the list. Thanks!

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Bought the belly pan... really liked the bars too. This bike has the lower AltRider bars so I bought upper AltRider bars. The T-REX protection of the lower engine casings had me thinking hard about swapping them out though. . . .
Another option, if you wanted to add the uppers to the new pan, sell the Altriders on here. There are plenty of people looking for Altriders.
 

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Another option, if you wanted to add the uppers to the new pan, sell the Altriders on here. There are plenty of people looking for Altriders.
That had occurred to me! Maybe in the future...

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