So, after a small hiatus, mailny involving lots of travel, beer and food I got back to the garage for some therapy. First off, my parents got me a set of wrenches (I know spanners, but I have spent too long in the US of A). Lets face it, at our age, Christmas is a difficult time for presents as we have most anything we want, which leaves Whisky or tools, so tools it was - a lovely set of metric ratchet wrenches - now thats a mouthful for most every one (Nina Hartley an exception). So I got to organise my metric drawer in th eVidmar - remember the Vidmar, a restoration from my time in Florida, from my best friend Robert Meadows. The result is quite pleasing:
This gave me the nudge i required to get back to my bike build, so to the garage on 01 Jan 25, new year, same build. So my first job was to strip down the the forks, the first one went lovely, cleaned up the lower and a quick service. Oil replacement tbd. The second was a nightmare, Captain Bodge had been at it, the first bolt was a B&Q special, the lower stud being totally absent, and the other stud had been stripped, epoxy resined and nyloc bolt bodged, almost certain death if I had not checked it and riddent the bike - another lesson learnt:
The urge to have a milestone was great, so i test assembled the fromnt end, having cleaned the ignition switch and the key, it now functions perfectly, a happy event. So below is progress to date, the front ens is almost complete, the headlight needing a service and restoration, all else is complete for the front, the powder coating still needing done, but hopefully by months end it should be done.
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