Damnit spring is here.

So......

My buddies went for a ride yesterday...
The first ride of the year....
In the sunshine...
Leaving me in the garage with my disassembled bike....

And because the budget is really stretched at the moment it will most likely be another couple of weeks before I can put the whole thing together. and when the temperature is currently over 10 degrees Celcius around here every day that goes by woithout being able to ride is a real agony.

So at least I got some stuff done while my buddies where away enyoying themselfes.
I got the flapper-mod and PAIR-mod done and it feels nice to finally have a bike that isn't limited by some stupid enviromental restrictions. And I probably shredded about a kilo of weight of the thing as well.
Now it's jusrt basic service stuff left, changing the plugs, airfilters and checking the valveclearance and because the bike is ripped apart already I reckon that it will take just a weekend of work to get it done.
After that it's time to install the PC3 and getting a basemap loaded into it until I van afford a proper mapping at a dynocenter.

So progress is happening just not fast enough.....

Haters gonna hate!

What the hell are you doing? You can't put those cans on a Honda! It isn't a f*cking Duc! 

Well if I had the money for some Satos or HRC style Ackras I would have bought those no questions.
But now the situation is that I don't have any money and these cans where butt cheap so they are staying, and I can always liven things up with my ghettostyle 2-1 LeoVince system now and then.

So I finally got some time with the bike today so I changed the oil and oilfilter and swapped the cans. I was supposed to do more stuff but parts that wasn't in stock when I layed down the order so I hade to settle with the oil and cans this time. I was going to shoot a video when I was working on the bike but the SD-crad for my GoPro is currently gone for some reason but when it turns up some moving pictures will find its way to this blog.

Prepping and more prepping and then some.

I must admit that I love prepwork. Half the fun is in my opinion to make out how I'm going to execute my plan in the most organized and effective way. So I have booked two days later this month when I will do nothing else than work with the bike and until then I will make sure that as much as possible is sorted out so that I won't be standing there with for example missing parts or tools.

When I get filthy rich some day I will have my self a really nice garage/workshop with tile floor and colourcoded and labeled shelfs and storage units everywhere and a cleaning rag for my handtools. And in the middle of the room I will have a small barstool that I can sit on and just look around myself and just feel the atmosphere. And now and then I will probably do some work on my bikes (I will have a lot more bikes when I'm filthy rich).

So parts are being ordered at the moment, OEM parts from David Silver and some fun parts are finding it's way off eBay. Storage boxes are being labeled and tools are being prepped. The final thing will be to prep the garage and make sure that there sisn't going to be a lot of other stuff going on there simultaneously.

Season three

If you watch a lot of tv-series you can tell that when the show enters its third season it usually takes a radical turn to keep the viewers interested. I'm aiming at that my bike also could follow that pattern. 
So the plan for this winters mods: Servicing with oil change, filter, air filter, sparkplugs, fluids and checking the valve clearances. Further enginework involves getting rid of the PAIR-system and the flapper valve. Also I will investigate in if there are some posibilities that a local high school can take care of some boring bodywork for me. 
I have been able to snatch up some fun parts during this winter. A pair of Termignoni slip-ons and a home made 2-1 leo-vince "full system", these will be accompanied with a Power Commander 3 USB. I'm thinking Termignoni pipes and stock fairings for those nice cruise days and deathgray fairings and the Leopipe for those murder and mayhem moments.

And here's a pic of my current toilet reading. 

 

Starting to see the end of the tunnel, winter and the project for this time.

The good news has been pooring in this week. First Niklas told me that he had found a lump of aluminium so the caliper brackets isn't going to be steel as first intended.
Second I found a really cheap left side fairing on ebay so now I will have a complete set of trackday fairings.
And thirdly if things go my way the next couple of weeks a steering damper will find it's place on the bike also. Cross fingers.

In the next post I will try and put up a video of the bike.

Coming together

Almost new tank, got it real cheap to.
Brakes are almost done, they are currently going trough the final polish.

Real racing exotica parts.

Yup, turns out that some spares that I got with the bike was used in some real racing events.
Probably not WSBK level but and perhaps not in the most fashionable manner.
The spare tank turned out ( not that surprisingly ) to be just as dented as the original unit.

Under the very most race-spec black paintjob I found a very impressive job that consisted of about 5 mm (!) of bondo. No use in stripping this tank of it, I'm just going to sand it to a descent shape, paint it white and use it on trackdays.

Now on to get a nice original tank then... eBay here we go....

Peace