{"id":56846,"date":"2016-06-12T18:29:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=56846"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:44:50","slug":"gsx1100s-yoshimura-step-kit-short-offset-stem-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20160612\/everyday-events\/gsx1100s-yoshimura-step-kit-short-offset-stem-installation","title":{"rendered":"GSX1100S Yoshimura Step KIT Short Offset Stem Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_9480.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9480\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9480-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nOnce you start paying attention to bolts and brackets, you&#8217;ll naturally develop your own style and personality.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/P1590934.jpg\" alt=\"P1590934\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/P1590934.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/P1590934-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nWe roughly sketch out the layout with welding rod, then bend stainless steel round bar using a press.<br \/>\nThere are rules to bending. There&#8217;s a minimum pitch and maximum leg length that can be bent. We pay attention to keep things loose enough to allow some flexibility.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_9484.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9484\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9484.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9484-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nWe skip the plates and collars. Weld it and we&#8217;re done. We&#8217;re running low on argon, so we&#8217;ve been stingy and it&#8217;s pretty scorched.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_9489.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9489\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9489.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9489-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter removing the burn marks and polishing, it&#8217;s complete. Parts that don&#8217;t shout for attention look clean and good.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_9492.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9492\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9492.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9492-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56843\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_9494.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9494\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9494.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9494-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nIt went together cleanly like this. For long-time customers, we do custom work. I&#8217;ll say it again: we&#8217;re not a custom shop, so I think having a shop that specializes in this kind of work do it will get you faster and higher quality results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_9504.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9504\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9504.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9504-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nWe weren&#8217;t asked, but we went ahead and did a little custom work anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_9507.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9507\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9507.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/DSC_9507-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve always wondered why the screws under the screen aren&#8217;t fasteners. There aren&#8217;t many GSX1100S out there, so we&#8217;ve been putting it off, but what do you think?<br \/>\nI think it would be fine to make them all fasteners.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you start paying attention to bolts and brackets, you&#8217;ll naturally develop your own style and personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-56846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-gsx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}