One of the things I had wanted to do to this bike for years was to clean up the lines a bit by getting rid of the passenger pegs and rearsets. BUT, I wanted to retain the stock plastic. The rearset mounts are essential for keeping the plastic in place. The solution? The "Chop-Mod".

The right-side passenger mount before starting..

My plan was to cut the passenger peg mount off, and retain the rest to attach the bodywork to.

The left and right-hand side after removing the mounts
with a Saws-All.

My plan was to cut the passenger peg mount off, and retain the rest to attach the bodywork to. The DeWalt saw made short work of the mounts, and my friend Dave's air tools came in handy to round them off and smooth them out.

A sticking point, the helmet lock on the right-hand side.

Fixing that! Using the air grinder to remove the helmet lock mount.

Nice and pretty! You never knew it was there.

After pulling off the bodywork and passenger mounts, the helmet lock mount was also in the way, and inhibited the "clean-line" look I was after. I used an air grinder to remove it. The mod was really coming together at this point.

With the mounting bracket in place, and the rear seat rail cleaned up.

All finished. How about that difference?

With everything reassembled, she looked darn good. I was impressed at how quickly I got this done. I used some spare parts I had lying around, so my original parts are saved! How cool is that? I still try and retain all of my original GSX-R parts when doing conversions like this.