Eagle eye Rad does indeed note correctly that all the hardware on Fred's FJR is properly color coordinated right down to the oil filter and oil fill cap. I’ll leave it up to Fred to defend explain how this comes to be :lol:
That one's easy:
[SIZE=14pt]It wasn't me, I tell ya. I didn't do it!!![/SIZE]
When I bought my bike used, it already had all of that snazzy blue hardware installed all over it.
I even have the photographical evidenciary to prove it. Here's some pictures that I kept from the eBay auction that I bought my bike on.
The previous owner must have bought some kind of "dress up" kit with all the blue hardware. Note also the cool blue billet oil fill plug... I shudder to think how much that cost him. But it is pretty different looking and has been a conversation piece.
Well, in the interest if full disclosure, the cool blue filter I did add. :blush2:
Actually it's just a Purolator Pure1 filter, which is a brand that I like to use on all of my vehicles, not just the blue ones. Though you must admit it is a nice match. They are as good or better than the K&N filters (like it came with when I bought it) for about 1/2 the price.
You know, in retrospect, I should have taken some "before" pics of the bike before I washed it last week. I think I'd have earned back a little cred then. It was covered in mud up to about the bottom of the seat. You could barely make out the license plate in the back. I learned that FJRs don't handle Jeep trails all that well... There was no way the bike wasn't getting washed before the long winter with all that gook on there.
