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I'm just not sure how I got here. What started as a simple get-it-running project has metamorphosed into something else entirely. The beast within has reared it's ugly head and keeps chanting in my ear...."if some is good, more is better, if some is good, more is better, if.......".
It seems like everytime I do something (eg try to roll the bike into a different position with locked calipers), it leads to something else (front brake overhaul) which leads to something else (take off the forks to have the lower legs powder coated black (and while I'm doing that I might as well do the calipers in a nice copper color for contrast)) which leads to something else (new fork seals, dust caps and replacing that axle pinch stud I stripped, anyone got a spare?) which leads to something else (polishing and painting the wheels which someone on this site so graciously reminded me are going to look like crap next to the pretty forks and calipers (and ss brake lines of course)) which leads.... (well, you know how it goes, I don't want to preach to the choir)
And that's just the front end!! Where does it stop?!! I'm not sure how much more I can take!!! (sure is going to be nice when I'm done though!)
Other than that I am fine and actually enjoying this journey into creative expression and I have all of you to thank for that.......I think!!?
So with all that said I thought I would include a couple of pics to let you all know where we are at the moment.
I've got a stack of parts to be powdercoated, prepped, primed, painted, polished (and all the other p's) but there is a decent list of things that are already done:
clutch extra plate mod completed, carbs reworked, seat recovered, mid/final drive fluids changed, new tires ordered, et al.
The reward: a nice bike and that nice little inner glow you get after doing something you didn't really think you could do. Thanks again and I'll post progress as it occurs.
It seems like everytime I do something (eg try to roll the bike into a different position with locked calipers), it leads to something else (front brake overhaul) which leads to something else (take off the forks to have the lower legs powder coated black (and while I'm doing that I might as well do the calipers in a nice copper color for contrast)) which leads to something else (new fork seals, dust caps and replacing that axle pinch stud I stripped, anyone got a spare?) which leads to something else (polishing and painting the wheels which someone on this site so graciously reminded me are going to look like crap next to the pretty forks and calipers (and ss brake lines of course)) which leads.... (well, you know how it goes, I don't want to preach to the choir)
And that's just the front end!! Where does it stop?!! I'm not sure how much more I can take!!! (sure is going to be nice when I'm done though!)
Other than that I am fine and actually enjoying this journey into creative expression and I have all of you to thank for that.......I think!!?
So with all that said I thought I would include a couple of pics to let you all know where we are at the moment.
I've got a stack of parts to be powdercoated, prepped, primed, painted, polished (and all the other p's) but there is a decent list of things that are already done:
clutch extra plate mod completed, carbs reworked, seat recovered, mid/final drive fluids changed, new tires ordered, et al.
The reward: a nice bike and that nice little inner glow you get after doing something you didn't really think you could do. Thanks again and I'll post progress as it occurs.
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