Hey guys, it's been a while.
First off - tho I havent posted in a loooong time, the project is still on. I've been busy with my studies for the last few weeks and fell into a deep demotivational bender with the bike. But now I'm starting to pick it up again (don't hold your breath, it's still going to progress slowly).
I needed to take the front end back off, because I couldn't help but look at it and think to myself "somethings definately wrong", and something was. It appears both my yokes are a bit twisted, hence forcing the wheel to steer right. As they are alloy and soft cast iron - there's just no way to make them 100% straight once bent. So I did the next best thing. I twisted them back "straitish" by hand. Tho I'm sure they arent 100% straight, theyre close and I'm going to roll with this and see how the bike steers. If the steering is still sh*t, then I'll find replacements for them.
Here's a pic of some freshly blasted/polished 25 year old parts:
The fork braces and the rear sprocket will be painted black using just plain aerosole. The front disk will get some heat resistant black on it. The polished fork tube is a disaster - I don't like the look and hence didn't bother being too picky with the end result, but now I need to polish the other one too. I might end up painting them next year. The headlight brackets turned out beautiful - I shortened them about 20-30mm to get the headlight tucked a bit more closer to the forks and also drilled holes for the LED front blinkers.
It feels good to be working with the bike again - hopefully I'll get a bit more done this spring. To be continued.