Just purchased Sidi Strada waterproof boots – used $40! + Technic leather pants
Looks barely worn Sidi Strada black waterproof boots. Apparently they are made of “Lorica” a duPont manufactured synthetic leather that Sidi uses in most of its bicycling shoes and moto boots. The are incredibly comfortable and light.
Completely opposite from the MX motor cross AlpineStar boots I bought last week. I quickly resold them a few days later for a $10 profit. I wanted them to work, but they were thick, heavy as hell, thick, and I couldn’t shift in them or at least no feel, had to reposition shifter to drive bike with them, and then could not feel up shifting whatsoever. Not good on a 46K bike.
I also scored a pair of Teknic black leather pants, I’ve never owned a pair of leather pants in all these years of riding. I also go one for $40 and they have pucks / knee sliders that I’d hope to get down sometime this year – drop my knee in a turn.
Ordered a New set of Dunlop Q3 racey hyper sport tires. They arrive tomorrow! And I plan to install them myself! Which will be a first and probably pretty tough. Gonna use the “zip tie method” but have hacksaw, tin snips, drill and box cutters on stand by to aid the removal of old tires in case… That seems to be the worst part of job.
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DIY rear rack for ZX6e Ninja bike V2 completed!
Version 2 just finished today!
I used 1/2″ steel EMT tube. A 10′ piece costs about $2.50 at Home Despot. (in electrical aisle). It’s that metal conduit for garage / basement / outdoor wire running. It has some sort of coating on it too to make it ‘waterproof’ and not rust – although the cut and drill points remain to be seen how they hold up.
This is a pretty cool solution if you’re like me, and like cheap.
It’s stronger and better looking than V1. (steel vs aluminum)
I also only drilled through the lower part of EMT at the front mounts by the seat for this version. Cleaner and stronger. I used spare battery bolts and nuts up there – c’mon you been riding more than 2 years you know you have extras of those kicking around!
This version looks a LOT nicer. The crossbars in the back I integrated more into the design. Cleaner, lower profile for bags on top, and less nuts to shake around and loosen up riding.
This bike already does a good enough job shaking my own nuts around. 
I drilled into the inside portions only this time for the ‘crossbars’ at the rear. It was donor metal I scrounged from a metal rack I found abandoned on the street (that’s how we roll in the city here, or really how people and hipsters etc… do when they move here and move on). I measured and cut them to size with a hacksaw.
Oh and I should have mentioned it, I more or less followed the crutch double bends. I bent it a little more custom to raise it a little higher and dip the angle back lower a little.
But what I did with the EMT is bend the back two bends first with an EMT pipe bender. I have a tiny kink on the inside edge of one, but it’s not a big deal.
Here’s some updated measurements I made in 2015 of the same rack:
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