Unfortunately it coincided with starting chemotherapy for cancer which took the shine off the purchase a bit.
Anyway, with the late decent weather we got when the opportunity arose me and the wife took the bike out and loved every minute of it.
As the weather cooled I decided to give the bike just a small make over, due to current circumstances I never want it in lots of pieces and the intention is/was just a deep clean and return some of the modifications back to standard.
So, the bike as purchased on our last run out, note the rear tail light moved under the tail unit, tidy job but not to my taste.
So the plan is to do the rear end first, do the bits that need doing, put it back together before taking other parts off.
So first mission was to find an original rear tail light bracket, I ended up buying two from Japan, both arrived with the usual snapped indicator mounts, not divulged by the sellers on Japan EBay, beware.
Anyway, I made repairs using stronger gauge steel and it is now far stronger than the original and looks lovely in black powder coat
I know the number plate bracket bolts don't match ....yet
With that sorted it allows fitment of the original full length mudguard, I should add I'm waiting for a couple of new indicators to arrive.
So, although my intention was just to clean parts and refit them I opted to have the swingarm, brake torsion bar and foot rest brackets powder coated, swingarm is now refitted.
What's nice is that all the bolts, chain adjusters etc still have the nice black/dark green coating which is a bonus.
I also fitted a new rear master cylinder purely as I had one spare from the 1000R restoration.
Next on the list is to clean the chain, hub and sprocket before starting to polish and repaint the rear wheel gold, might be a few weeks before the next update.
All the best, Paul
