I had some free time today and I needed a good way to mount a couple of switches out if the way on bike. Here's what I crafted....

Oh hey! This looks like a good place for a couple "discreet" switches...

Cut, formed, and filed into shape all by hand...

Fits snug as a bug...

Switches mounted and painted. Ready to reinstall the plastics...

Final product...

The button could have been a little lower but it will be easy to find without having to look for it...

* Last updated by: nasty on 4/3/2015 @ 8:24 PM *

Nice work, you did a great job! Ok, I give up, what are the switches for???

lol both are for the onboard air compressor...the toggle switch activates the automatic pressure switch I mounted to the tank to automatically kicks in the compressor when the air pressure is low, it keeps the tanks at 120-150psi...the momentary button is there as a fail safe incase the pressure switch ever fails I can still operate the pump.

Nice custom piece. That idea will be copied by many I'm sure.

Great idea, especially having the override.
1. Where did you find a small enough air compressor?
2. Where did you mount the air compressor?
3. Where did you mount the air tank?
4. What the hell do you use it for? LOL

I ask out of curiosity due to how tight space is on a ZX. I had a hard time finding room under the seat for a tire repair kit with CO2 cartridges, I'm impressed you found room for an AC and tank!!! Awesome!!!

Looks great, nice fabrication and engineering there!

Still don't understand why a Ninjee needs an ejector seat.

Absolutely way cool!

Neat idea. There's a lot of cool stuff you can whip up with a few tools. I'd take the removable lower fram out and make that the plate even smaller. I don't think you need that at all if your riding solo.

Nice shop by the way!!! Very organized!

Great idea, especially having the override.
1. Where did you find a small enough air compressor?
2. Where did you mount the air compressor?
3. Where did you mount the air tank?
4. What the hell do you use it for? LOL
I ask out of curiosity due to how tight space is on a ZX. I had a hard time finding room under the seat for a tire repair kit with CO2 cartridges, I'm impressed you found room for an AC and tank!!! Awesome!!!

1. MPS makes a small onboard air compressor meant for squeezing into tight places on the bike...

2. I temperaily removed the center seat latch and zip tied the sucker in its place. Also I use a catalyst step seat which is made of fiberglass and has no padded seat and is hollow. I'm basically sitting right in the tank as you can see in the pics. It also provides shit tons of extra room in the tail section. The compressor is temperaily mounted where it is because I was in a quick pinch and need to mount it somewhere ASAP; I was supposed to go to the dragstrip last Friday but the races endup begin cancelled because of rain. I will do something different because I still want to be able to use the stock seat without having to reinstall/remove a bunch of parts every time I want to switch seats.

3. The air tank is built into my swingarm...problem solved...lol

4. I use the air tank to operate my airshifter for drag racing.

One thing I did to make a little breathing room under the seat was to remove the toolbox..

Right now since I have the time I am unwiring everything I have under the seat to rearrange and organize a bunch of shit and clean up the wiring to make room for a more semi-perminent location for the air compressor...

Here's what it looked like before I started undoing everything. You can see the air compressor in the center of everything there and you can see why I'm redoing the wiring...

That is way cool, thanks for taking the time to answer my curiosity!

When I used to do a lot of serious off-roading I used the tubular front and rear bumpers as air tanks, worked really well. Would have probably NEVER thought of using the swing arm for an air tank, but why not?

Fantastic idea!!!