1098 Mod: SpeedyMoto Rearsets from Desmoworks

Ho Ho Ho the Holidays are here! Boy have they snuck up or what? Seriously, it feels like just yesterday it was June or July… Yet here we are, lickedy-split fast… LA is freezing and the wet weather season is about to begin and everywhere you look there’s a red and white Starbucks cup…

What’s a Moto-nut to do?… Buy parts of course!

Being someone who fully subscribes to acquisition therapy, after wrapping up holiday shopping for friends and family, I decided it was time to treat the bikes to something nifty too… So I dialed in the website of Desmoworks, the parts-supplier where earlier this year I picked up a Bitubo steering dampener for the Monster. Their proprietor, Anthony Creek, had provided such killer service the last time I went moto-mod-shopping, it just seemed like the place to go this time around too…

Of course when it comes to bikes, sometimes there’s an odd sense of cosmic-karma coming back around — Anthony’s blog happened to be where I’d first spied some picts of SpeedyMoto’s beautiful rearsets. Ever since, on every ride I’ve taken on the 1098S, I’ve felt this lingering “you know you’re going to do it eventually, so why haven’t you done it already” sentiment cross my mind… Fait Accompli…

The final straw… Anthony happened to have one last discounted set available — in the perfect color combo… Seriously, sometimes it I even wonder if I’m actually making decisions or the decisions make themselves…

So this weekend, when the rain comes, it’s gonna be time to do a little wrenching