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Memphis | Can anyone (hopefully from Ness) tell me how much trouble it was to get the custom Hell's Angels badges made for Sonny Barger's bike? I think it would be cool if we could contact that company and have our own badges made up. The Vision-Riders logo, Vision Pilot wings or even markh's Batman logo for blacked-out bikes (see his gallery) would be over the top custom pieces. Any leads would be greatly appreciated. |
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Pittsburgh, PA | I think thats a cool idea. but i dont see that being in high demand for someone to put the R&D for it. like i said it would be cool. I bet it would be expensive too! you might want to contact someone like this. http://www.customdynamics.com |
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Linwood, MI | My first thought would be to just try a local sign shop. The lighted badges aren't really anything more than a piece of plastic with a picture on it and a light that shines through it, aka a sign.  |
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Rockford, IL |
Um....could Racershawn do something with this? Not much different than the console wraps he is already doing. |
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Hampton Va | give me a cpl days and i will look into it....just not sure how the badges are installed on the bike ...but i am sure i can make the insert |
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Arkansas | Just make sure you don't put anything like the HA badge on there; you may bite off some trouble you you don't want any part of. ( Yes, I realize you said "your own custom badge"; but can you imagine if someone DID put HA's on there? Don't even wanna think about it! |
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Hampton Va | anyone evre take it apart or know how to? |
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O'Neill, Nebraska | The badge comes off very easy once you've got the inner fairing off. From my experience it's getting all of the body work off that take a few hours. You might be able to reach it from the top or from the front if you have small hands. It's held on by two screws/small bolts. |
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San Antonio, TX United States | I have a burned out badge setting on my tool box at work. I will look into how it could be taken apart tomorrow. I know the back section is sealed LED's. I am not sure if it is a fully molded/solid piece. |
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San Antonio, TX | dwhite28,
If you get it apart, please take a few pictures.
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Hampton Va | dave if you can just call me and let me know david has my # thanks |
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London, UK | I had a go at getting to it but might have gone a bit to far.
(a bit tongue in cheek if the picture comes out otherwise i will just look stupid)
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Rockford, IL | Jacques - 2008-12-16 3:41 PM I had a go at getting to it but might have gone a bit to far. (a bit tongue in cheek if the picture comes out otherwise i will just look stupid) You are NAKED !!! Go get dressed !!!! I'm almost afraid to ask.....why is your Vision in such disarray.....???
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London, UK | She just loves it in the dealers workshop, any excuse to go back there !!! . Got hit by a car, my left foot took the impact to protect the gearshift and cost me one toe and a couple of months in hospital but both of us (bike and me) are on the mend and my dealer promised i'd have her back for Christmas. Insurance company not to happy....very expensive plastic panels.
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New York State | Glad to hear your well. Hope you have a Merry Christmas
What color was your Vision and are you going to keep that color or try another?
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San Antonio, TX United States | I have not forgotten the photos of the lighted badge. I got busy at work today and forgot to bring it home. The badge can be seperated from the LED back plate. It is all hot glued together, so once you break it apart, you can easily glue it back together. I will try and get the photos up tomorrow night. |
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Memphis | Jacques, Your dealer has learned more about Vision's than nearly any dealer in the world, thanks to your bike. Sorry you've had such a rough first year. Get well soon and keep us posted. Great hearing from across the pond but want to get the good with the bad.
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San Antonio, TX United States | I have the photos of the badge as it is taken apart. The main assembly can be taken out of the chrome ring and the top layer (logo) peeled off and then you can apply anything you want.
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San Antonio, TX | dwhite28,
This looks like quite an opportunity for customizing.
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Hampton Va | I am on it. Any ideas guys wana see? |
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Linwood, MI | racershawn - 2008-12-20 10:52 AM
I am on it. Any ideas guys wana see?
well, duh. Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods? Of course we do! :P |
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O'Neill, Nebraska | dwhite28 - 2008-12-20 7:47 AM
I have the photos of the badge as it is taken apart. The main assembly can be taken out of the chrome ring and the top layer (logo) peeled off and then you can apply anything you want.
What is the trick to getting the two screws out of the main assembly? Could you reach them from inside the fairing?
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Hampton Va | I dont see any way to get around removing the fairing....the fuel tank in the way...... |
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, FL United States | Well, what about flames? Could you do that??? |
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, FL United States | Flames that light up...
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Hampton Va | yep!!! Flames it is then |
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, FL United States | Cool. |
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San Antonio, TX United States | What is the trick to getting the two screws out of the main assembly? Could you reach them from inside the fairing? Thanks! The only way i know of to get the badge off is to take the fairing off. If i remember correctly, shop rate to get both fairings off is around 75 minutes.
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San Antonio, TX | dwhite28,
What does the lighting assembly look like? You said it is an LED but I was wondering if a multicolor LED array could replace it connected to a controller. Then one could change the color on the fly and have the LED vary its brightness in many ways.
The picture you posted looks like it had a defuser just before the image. Is this true? |
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Savannah, GA -Year round riding!! Yay! | How about....
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| radioteacher - 2008-12-21 11:18 PM
dwhite28,
What does the lighting assembly look like? You said it is an LED but I was wondering if a multicolor LED array could replace it connected to a controller. Then one could change the color on the fly and have the LED vary its brightness in many ways.
The picture you posted looks like it had a defuser just before the image. Is this true?
Oooh! Now there's an idea! Flames graphic with a variable light intensity LED display in the back. Actually have the flames "burn"...
(don't mind me lurking/posting boys... I'm still living vicariously through my old man's Vision 'till I can save up some funds / win a lottery) |
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Woodland Hills, CA | GAgirlTrixie - 2008-12-21 8:23 PM
How about....
Love the Star Trek one! |
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Hampton Va | here are a cpl
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Richmond, Virginia | uhhh BEFORE Shawn gets going on YOUR projects he needs to complete mine that he was ...s u p p o s e d l y working on for the last 3 weeks.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz hint hint..... where are my center console designs buddy? |
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Hampton Va | I have the book in hand and looking at page 17 ....................... |
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Linwood, MI | Pretty cool Shawn. Have you actually made one and tested it to see how it looks? Got any pics?
P.S. don't forget to make a right-side American Flag, also. |
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Hampton Va | think I am going to take mine apart this weekend and try it......... but I have printed them out ...so that part works..... |
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Litchfield Park, AZ | Cant wait to see the R&R detail. THanks. |
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Richmond, Virginia | ugh flames are sooooooooooooooooo 10 years ago.... how about something more contemporary that matches the style of the bike. The Vision is not a "flame" kinda bike. It needs to be text not a picture. The reason it lights up is to see that it is a Victory.
To have an oval that lights up "flames" is kinda silly and doesnt make a statement (not picking on flames, just more an example)
Something cool in the way the word VISION is styled would be pretty sweet. |
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Simi Valley, CA | I am looking for something like Warp Drive |
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New Bohemia, VA | Cometman, you need one of those "motion" lights behind your badge to simulate passing stars like in the Star Trek series, that would be cool. |
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Simi Valley, CA | Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh dude..... already downloaded the Star Trek sound effects (10 minutes of bridge sounds) to my iPod. The geekness is on high. Who will come up with that for the light? |
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New Bohemia, VA | Sadly I was thinkin on how to make the trunk look like the engine's on the enterprise. from a profile view it is much like that and you could have long running tubular molding with the lights on the tail....now that would be geekness. There's a motovation poster of a trike that looks like the enterprise over in that thread.... ideas are a spinnin'
"Darn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a engineer, that's Scotty's forte" "Aye captain, give me 48 hours and we'll have 'er as good as new."
I really like what you did with the front of your bike too. You need to get that on Shantner's raw nerve,... |
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San Antonio, TX | Cometman - 2010-01-08 10:41 AM
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh dude..... already downloaded the Star Trek sound effects (10 minutes of bridge sounds) to my iPod. The geekness is on high. Who will come up with that for the light?
I hate to ask but...Where did you get the "Star Trek sound effects" I have the Theme and some other music but no other sounds.
I love the way that you can leave the Vision in ACC on the switch and remove the key. You can set it to play and walk off.
Ride safe! |
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Memphis | I still have my bike taken apart, getting all the aluminum pieces either color-matched or swapped out with chrome. I've got the side lit badges off and if I had thought of it earlier, I'd pop them open and be the guinea pig to make "infinity" lights out of them. Here's a pretty cool video of the concept: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2659027/make_a_infinity_mirror_amazing_optical_illusion/ I'll bet a 12 LED/4.7" strip of Stingerz would curl into a nice oval inside the housing. (I'd go with red Hot Lava.)http://www.customdynamics.com/stingerz_led_accent_lights.htm Get some reflective window tint for the back of the stock glass, cut a small oval mirror for the back side of the Stingerz (notch it for the wires) and it should be pretty simple. Since the Stingerz have three sides of VHB tape, you should be able to keep the whole thing together with some superglue and the VHB. The badges have a short pigtail coming out of them that plugs right into the bike so you could just cut the pigtail off the stock LED, figure out +/- wires on the Stingerz and pigtail and solder/Posi-Lock them together. Plug and play. Of course, nothing is that simple but it would be pretty cool if someone pulled it off. |
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Simi Valley, CA | iTunes has the sound effects.... kinda scary... Did that once too, killed the battery.
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So Cal | dwhite28 - 2008-12-16 9:33 PM
I have not forgotten the photos of the lighted badge. I got busy at work today and forgot to bring it home. The badge can be seperated from the LED back plate. It is all hot glued together, so once you break it apart, you can easily glue it back together. I will try and get the photos up tomorrow night.
If it's just hot glued, is it necessary to remove the light from the panel? Can the badge be removed while it's still on the bike? |
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Pittsburgh, PA | Is there any instructions on how to change the light(s) inside the badge? one of mine is burned out. or just not working.. |
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San Antonio, TX | Go back to the first page of this post and you will see a picture of the front part of the assembly.
http://www.vision-riders.com/bb/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=2434&sta... |
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Oregon | How do you open the lighted badge up? I see a small hole on the bottom, where the chrome frame meets the black housing. Does the frame pop off?
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2 mi from Jim Beam n KY | Hmmmmmm.....the infinity mirror, then rotate flashing LEDs to create a black hole effect?????????? |
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Pittsburgh, PA | I hate to point this out but the pope has not been polish for awhile now but I'm pretty sure the bears still does shit in the woods. |
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Rancho Cucamonga, CA | Got to figure out how to mount these in that spot. . .
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Tri Cities, WA | Now that would be freaking cool to see. |
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, FL United States | VaParadox - 2010-01-07 9:20 PM ugh flames are sooooooooooooooooo 10 years ago.... how about something more contemporary that matches the style of the bike. The Vision is not a "flame" kinda bike. It needs to be text not a picture. The reason it lights up is to see that it is a Victory. To have an oval that lights up "flames" is kinda silly and doesnt make a statement (not picking on flames, just more an example) Something cool in the way the word VISION is styled would be pretty sweet. I LIKE FLAMES!!! |
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San Antonio, TX United States | The badge can be carefully pried apart. Its glued together. you have the chrome frame and the L.E.D circuit card and a backing piece. The actual Victory logo in laid over the L.E.D. card. I thought i had posted pictures at one time back at the beginning of this thread that showed the disassembled parts.
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Saskatchewan, Canada | Too funny that there would be a jetson badge for the front of these. My son in law says my 2010 sounds like something of the jetsons Tv show when gearing down coming towards him. Obviously he's not the only one |
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Simi Valley, CA | Hummm I need a warp core in that spot... |
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Apopka, FL | When the geeks get really fired up, they could make the oval a little LCD screen and have pictures scroll across the screen. Kinda like a slide show. Pictures of the riders choosing from his iPhone. Or maybe even video! Now that would be the shits!
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