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Progress!!

Spent a few hours sorting the wiring, soldering, heat shrinking and wrapping. I decided to reconnect the alarm. My get out of jail is 2 scotch locks that I'll keep under the seat. If the worst happens and the alarm shoots its bolt, I know where the starter cut and ignition cut is so I can bridge the...

I'm tempted to bypass the ignition cuts so that if the (now old) alarm packs up I can still ride the bike. Or fit a hidden toggle switch somewhere. (:-}) Old skool security!! I was thinking about an on/off toggle on the ignition cut, and a push to make/release to break switch on the starter cut, bu...

2 long stacks and extra slide holes =bad. In fact extra slide hole don't work at all AFAIK DJ needles have a different taper than standard and DJ mains flow at different rates to standard mains eg a 180 DJ flows at a different rate to 180 standard jet. I reckon there's too many variables to take int...

Good progress tho I wouldn't fill the coolant till its ready for starting up . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Just thinking aloud really. She's tilted up at too much of an angle to fill properly, and I cant really drop her down until the forks come back, so oil and coolant are pretty much the l...

In case you decide to ply with shimming the needles again, you need to remove the stockshim from the front needle and replace it with a 1mm thick shim, and epoxy one of the slide holes. Then put a 1mm thick shim under the rear needle but leave the stock shim in place. I used dynojet needle shims whi...

I'll be there as long as my bike is built. I have quite a collection of tools, if there's anything specific anyone needs post here and I'll see if i can help out.

Got my steering bearings in today. Fitted the rear subframe properly and corrected the routing of the wiring loom. Front subframe and Clocks on and fitted ancilliaries such as the ignition coil and HRC coolant catch tank. Next purchases will be tyres and chain and sprocket kit Next jobs-clean the br...

As I thought. Thanks

Photos soon...