So, it's been a busy week. Halfords (UK version NAPA), had a reduction on a bike lift, from around £120 down to £96. I chanced searching my Blue Light Discount card for Halfords offered 20% of garage tools. I applied that online and behold! The lift cost a paultry 76 quid, give or take. I was very happy for the 40kg addition to my garage. A breeze to buils, i like the colour too!
650 Kg Lift capacity, happy days. So armed with my new lift, I tempered my enthusiams and got on witht he honey-doo list, making a house for the bins. First up, lay conctete slab, 2nd up - trip to A&E with a shoddy attempt to shorten my left hand fingers by 1/2 inch! All done with a 4 1/2" angle grinder.
Was an ouchy with much sympathy (not) from my gorgeous wife. A pause of 5 days while finger tips healed enough for me to wield a spanner or two.
I them began the teardown, a familiar story, lots of bubba'd nuts and bolts, shoddy repairs and general fuckwittery from previous owners. Got things going nicely, turns out that the tank that came with th e bike was a shoddy attempt at replacing the genuine article, so turns out I already need a new fuel tank, added to my initial list:
Seat Unit, Mirrors, Clocks, Indicators, Exhaust, and now a Fuel Tank. Not to mention a polethora of sundry bits and pieces.
The offending article: 
Mind you I get to eBay the original Indicators, hideous twin lights, fuel tank, plastics that survived the buffonery of previous owners, of which there were 5 before me. Anf the horrendous seat and a box of rust and some unusable pieces were suitably recycled at the local depot. Forgive the poor pictures, was in a hurry to post and update my progress.
And the time with a jet wash also helped with the cleaning of the sled. More to follow this week. My for subscribers are keen for updates.........😁
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