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Washed and polished then removed all the plastics. Resprayed the fairing mount at the front. Then fitted Hel lines all round brakes and clutch. Stuck the race lines on the front carbon look with black ends on. Looking good just need to put it all back together now, MOT will be shortly.
Bring on the summer

well as i had no work today and the roads were dry i went for a quick 20 mile run out, first go for about 3 weeks. it emphasised how worthwhile the trickle charge battery thing is . started on the first prod and ran nice and sweet. not ideal biking conditions as the roads were part dry and part wet. also the low sun at about half 3 was a bummer.

i was also wearing my new leather trousers for the first time. didnt we have a thread on here regarding best e bay bargains ? . i cant find it ? . any way these trousers are hein gereicke brand new without labels ( does that mean nicked?) and i got them for 60 quid plus 12 for p/p. current equivalent on their website looks like about 240 quid!. they seem like nice quality.

I put in some bright shiny things!!




Just the headlight to uprate again as the bulb blew and I'm back to using the OEM one.

Stripped, serviced and cleaned the rear master cyl, fitted new venhill braided hose and bled the back brakes through with nice new fluid

Hoisted it up stripped out the wheels, attacked fork lowers with nitromores! They did look so rough it just had to be done!





Other things are planned.........tbc

Jester666 wrote:I put in some bright shiny things!!




Just the headlight to uprate again as the bulb blew and I'm back to using the OEM one.

Very, Very Similar to mine this

Just connected up the cig lighter socket and Optimate 4 socket, painted and tidied the front fairing stay.
All ready to have the clutch conversion finished and put back together for now, pending a couple of days off for a complete engine out, strip and rebuild with new mains and big ends refreshed.
Oh, and some new head porting work, ideas stolen form the SP1 heads I bought and sold recently.

Put it back together after cleaning up the fork lowers & that terribly rusty front down pipe!

Shiny forks, rim tapes, black mudguard & new grips

looks good mac, are you coming to the essex workshop in april fella?

bigspanishmarty wrote:looks good mac, are you coming to the essex workshop in april fella?

Oh I'll be there alright...........

Changed my oil and fillter today wasnt to bad a job. Bought a plastic basin oot of ASDA for 96p made a good drip tray also got a set of funnels for £2 made life easier to get oil down the hole. Had an old container to stick the old stuff in.

MacV2 wrote:

bigspanishmarty wrote:looks good mac, are you coming to the essex workshop in april fella?

Oh I'll be there alright...........

good man, i'll meet you north of the thames then

AMCQ46 wrote:Nice polishing work there mac

Yesterday I finished the top end rebuild on this one



And today i went out for competition on this one, very icy in the bomb holes and ground as slick as an ice rink in places. But good fun

Where do you ride trials? - I'm not good but have a Scorpa 250, tend to ride only at Earl Shilton and Clifton (near Ashbourne)

cleaned the R1, put her on fleabay, soon to be back on VTR! welcome firestorm 5, watch this space!!

marravtr wrote:cleaned the R1, put her on fleabay, soon to be back on VTR! welcome firestorm 5, watch this space!!

the yellow and white one?