I will be coming home in a few months and I started looking through my J&P Cycles® wish book to see what I can do to my bike. I don’t want to dress it up a whole lot but I do want to add some functional pieces to it. Here are a few of the items that I am thinking about getting;

Headlight Modulator; This would be a safety item. During the day it will constantly flash your headlight so that it will attract the attention of those drivers who wouldn’t normally see you. You hear it constantly when there is an accident where a car hits a bike. The car driver swears up and down that they did not see the bike. Well this product will help. It also has a feature that allows the headlight to operate normally at night.

Tail Lamp Assembly; I have been wanting to clean up the way the rear of my bike looks for a while now. I  also want to replace the stock lights with brighter LEDs. Well the Radi Tail lamp kit will do both with a nice looking tail lamp setup that has the brake/running light and the turn signals and they all fit under the Bobtail fender. That way I will be able to remove my turn signals from the side and make it look a little better. Plus I won’t have that big plastic piece under my fender for the whole world to see. I have always thought it was ugly and now I will have a simple and fairly inexpensive way to cure it.

Mustang Daytripper seat; I have been thinking about a new seat for almost as long as I have owned my bike. The stock seat after 15000 miles has finally started to get comfortable but with some of the miles that I ride I want something better. Plus the daytripper just looks like it would look much better on my bike. It is a fairly inexpensive seat when compared to some of the others and I have heard that Mustang makes some great seats.

Apes; I have been wanting a new set of handlebars for a while now also. There are two reasons;

1. I want to bring the handlebars a little closer and raise my hands up to shoulder level or just below. Right now the mini apes that are on the bike just don’t do the trick.
2. I like the way the taller apes look on a bike, especially one with a wide front end.

New shocks; The wife rides with me occasionally and the stock shocks just don’t do that great a job when we have the bike loaded down so I have been eying a set of progressive shocks for a while now. Maybe I will be able to get a better ride and I may even try and lower the bike just a little when I get them.

Exhaust; The Vance and Hines short shots I have on the bike right now are a descent set of pipes that were cheap and effective but when it comes right down to it they are not that great when it comes to power. As a matter of fact they may be the worst solution if you are trying to make power. Now if you are looking for loud pipes they do the trick. What I am going to try and buy (this is what I wanted in the first place but they were a little too much for me at the time) is a 2 into 1 pipe from RB racing. They will probably set me back somewhere around $700 but I think they should do the trick for my bike and they look like they will improve the looks too.

So that’s my project list. I am hoping to have all of this done in 2009. With that exhaust being so much it may just take me that long. Plus I am going to need to have the bike tuned. It has never had a professional tune put on the Power Commander and I really think that will be a big help in the power department. We will have to see though.

So what kind of plans do you have for your bike this year? Flash, substance, or a mix of both? Tell us about it in the biker forums.