Hello everyone.
It seems the weather has been getting colder and I have too much time on hands lately, so....
I might as well do a nuts and bolts restoration to the bird!
I want to upgrade a few things on it, such as suspention, brakes and the motor a bit and more or less paint the whole bike...
Plan is to powder coat matt black the frame, swingarm, hangers, top yoke, bars and bar risers and forks along with the wheels...
Paint is still debatable, may go custom, may go factory blue (Phoenix Candy Blue) may even go mad, we shall see fairly soon..
I'll put new wavy disks front and back, along with nissin pads and prolly braided hoses, while retaining the fantastic CBS.
Suspension overhaul with Jaws' riser pre-load adjusters, new seals and oil up front with prolly a new spring for the back.
New fairing bolts all round with a few more bits from pro-bolt (such as reservoir caps etc). I am missing a lot of fairing bolts atm and the clutch reservoir cover is cracked etc etc etc...
I allready run an Akra 4-1 system which is in good condition, and have a K+N filter in the post. I am looking at fitting a Dynojet kit on it too. Oh yeah btw, its a propper one - a carbie...
I also got a new headlight for it, as the old one had a piece missing and some more bits n bobs...
Anyways that is the plan. I am held back a bit by a lack of unlimited funds on this project, but its should get done in time for spring and traveling! I already got a full Nonfango pannier set for it and touring is what it will be used mostly for, two up with the gf...
Started stripping the bike today. The plastics are in a sad state. The bike has had various slips and falls over the years before I got my hands on it.
There was like 10 layers of paint on them and a fair amount of cracks and repairs.. I got them to my mate who does plastic welding for a living, so they should be nice and solid when they are back. I allready peeled most of the paint of them, using a scrapper and 80grit sand paper. They will be sanded some more, filled, and primed, ready to be dropped of to another mate who is a painter for a living. As you can see there is a pattern forming here, where I blag mates for favours more or less and get it done cheap. I aint a rich bloke (yet...) so its the only way forward atm. Thank god I have a few mates happy to help, but I should be doing most of the work on it (80%+....)
Anyways, some eye candy for you lot. Just got the camera so please be patient with the quality. It will get better...:rotfl:
It seems the weather has been getting colder and I have too much time on hands lately, so....
I might as well do a nuts and bolts restoration to the bird!
I want to upgrade a few things on it, such as suspention, brakes and the motor a bit and more or less paint the whole bike...
Plan is to powder coat matt black the frame, swingarm, hangers, top yoke, bars and bar risers and forks along with the wheels...
Paint is still debatable, may go custom, may go factory blue (Phoenix Candy Blue) may even go mad, we shall see fairly soon..
I'll put new wavy disks front and back, along with nissin pads and prolly braided hoses, while retaining the fantastic CBS.
Suspension overhaul with Jaws' riser pre-load adjusters, new seals and oil up front with prolly a new spring for the back.
New fairing bolts all round with a few more bits from pro-bolt (such as reservoir caps etc). I am missing a lot of fairing bolts atm and the clutch reservoir cover is cracked etc etc etc...
I allready run an Akra 4-1 system which is in good condition, and have a K+N filter in the post. I am looking at fitting a Dynojet kit on it too. Oh yeah btw, its a propper one - a carbie...
I also got a new headlight for it, as the old one had a piece missing and some more bits n bobs...
Anyways that is the plan. I am held back a bit by a lack of unlimited funds on this project, but its should get done in time for spring and traveling! I already got a full Nonfango pannier set for it and touring is what it will be used mostly for, two up with the gf...
Started stripping the bike today. The plastics are in a sad state. The bike has had various slips and falls over the years before I got my hands on it.
There was like 10 layers of paint on them and a fair amount of cracks and repairs.. I got them to my mate who does plastic welding for a living, so they should be nice and solid when they are back. I allready peeled most of the paint of them, using a scrapper and 80grit sand paper. They will be sanded some more, filled, and primed, ready to be dropped of to another mate who is a painter for a living. As you can see there is a pattern forming here, where I blag mates for favours more or less and get it done cheap. I aint a rich bloke (yet...) so its the only way forward atm. Thank god I have a few mates happy to help, but I should be doing most of the work on it (80%+....)
Anyways, some eye candy for you lot. Just got the camera so please be patient with the quality. It will get better...:rotfl:
