Parenting has been gobbling up my project tinkering time!!
So this has taken ages. Also, I am very slow. The fork slider I got from Steff, via SteveH wouldn't take the paint I bought. So I rubbed it back (Again) and primed it, before painting. It still looked gash. So I rubbed it all back (bare), then primed it, and hammerited it with a brush. Looks crap, but at least its black.
I then built and unbuilt, then rebuilt the forks. Partly due to puncturing seals with a screwdriver on insertion. Then inspection of the one old slider showed that it was rather lumpy, and so the seal was getting stuck on the way in.
3 seals later, I took it to the bike shop who initially f'cked up the first slider.
The bike is now at least rolling again.
This started out as a service. Oil, filter, valve clearances. Then I thought I'd clean the whole thing up. Then, tidy the old crap wiring under the old crap seat. Then I thought about fitting the old race seat I had, with a flash of black paint. But I decided to get it painted with the tank and front guard. And I needed to fabricate a little subframe for the silly race seat. And come up with a fixing mechanism.
Here it is. The body work is just placed on, as is the front guard. Now the latter is fixed on, but I need to mount the headlamp properly, and put tank rubbers on etc.
And the photos made me realise that I need a small neat back light, mounted on to the fibreglass. So that means Ebay again for more nice, waterproof AMP connectors and a little rear lamp.
Then back to the paint man to get it flatted back a bit. I think I want it a bit more matt...
It is still ugly, but maybe a bit less ugly than it was.
Cheers
a
ps. Thanks big time to Steff and SteveH!
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