Am Happy with That.........

     So, the clocks turned out alright, I hope they work, once connected and the bike working, the pudding will be proofed.

     In a quirk of fate, i was on the GS Owners Forum (fannybook) and noticed one of the gurus not only lives down the road by 3 miles, but i used to work with him. Happy days, i dropped him a line, and his absolute forte is bike electrics and GS motorcycles! Not only that, he had a fuel tank tha i could have for a very reasonable, best price, one time only, never to be repeated, so said tank was snapped up!

     Hear is a picture, it is from an earlier model but that is a smoother look, something i like, so the bike is evolving, the FrankenGS is being born.

     Not only that, the lock set that had siezed due to the amount of detritus ingressed and general shite it was stored in, was freed up - with a little WD40 and careful cleaning it now functions luverly! Even better than that - the fuel cap, that resembled a block of sandstone with rust was cleaned. A copious amount of elbow grease and a light addition of NASA's water displacement product cleaned that as well, and made me a very smiley person when the key from the ignition also worked the fuel cap, that fitted the tank! I was very very content.

     The mounting lugs on the frame need relocating, to fully secure the tank, a small job and will be done post Christmas when the frame gets tackled. All in All a good purchase and, with some degree of luck, the ancilliaries for the tank fit, a forst on this build.

    Now to the final installation of the clocks, yokes, bars and headstock etc.

     More to follow after Christmas