Hi everybody

[ANDYGEE]

Just bought my first Firestorm four days ago, gonna need a lot of work to get it pristine , so there will be some ear bending very soon lol.

[Virt]

Welcome to the forum, best of luck with the firestorm work. Hope it's not too difficult and nothing breaks in the process. Quite a few of the members here are mechanical minded and will be of use to you (so don't listen to anything I say, I'm not one of them !!! )

Have you ridden it yet? And feel free to add your location to your profile, if you ever need help and words don't convey the meaning enough to inspire confidence there may be someone local to you to be of use

[Kev L]

Welcome to the club mate. Best place to get sensible answers to your Firestorm based questions is here.

[Flatline]

Welcome aboard buddy

[ANDYGEE]

Thanks guys, I've ridden it to work and back all week, love it, 02 plate yellow 20000, for £1500, needs cosmetic work , paint doesn't match, so I'm gonna have it resprayed. I'm from Dunstable ill add it to profile.
Thanks for the welcome.

[Hairy biker]

Hello

[lloydie]

welcome and have a good read through the workshop knowledge base sticky section for hints and tip and some worthwhile mods .

[darkember]

Hi there & welcome

[ChrisC]

Greetings and welcome from a piss wet Lancashire

[agentpineapple]

welcome to the forum fella........

[AMCQ46]

Hello and welcome to the yellow team

[VTRDark]

Welcome post some pics up so we can see. What sort of work do you think is involved.



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[ANDYGEE]

Good Morning everyone, thank you all for the welcome, I will put some pics on when I figure out how to do it, I'm going to start with the paintwork, I have been quoted £300.00 for a complete respray, with me stripping the panels and taking them to him. My first job is to put handlebar raisers on, I read some posts on here and seems by raising them I will ease the pressure on my wrists. I aslo have a shim for the rear shock to enhance the handling, but I'm thinking that if I raise the rear of the bike wont that put more pressre on my wrists, oh by the way if you havn't realised it yet I have wrist problems lol.

[Wicky]

Greetings

How to post pictures > http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 10&t=11049

You might save some spondoolies if you also do your own preparation on the panels, removing old decals (make a note of measurements & placement if you want to replace them after), filling & rubbing down - basically all the unskilled labour intensive stuff.

Fit the handlebars and see how it goes riding it for a while to see how it feels. Add the shock spacer test & repeat - it'll be relatively easy to remove the spacer if it doesn't help you out.

[ANDYGEE]

Thanks Wicky, thats good advice, to be honest I cant wait to get started.