Saturday, February 26, 2011

Bike Progress

The bike is nearly back together again after lots of not getting much of my attention for a couple of months ... I was working on renovating my basement after it was left in rather bad condition by the previous tenant.

Housework aside, here are a few update pictures...



The new mufflers in the back of the bike but with the "undertail" plastic fender removed...




But with the exhaust pipe so close to the plastic body panels and with no air flow in there to keep it cool, Im worriedt that it will melt the pannels... So, I decided to wrap the pipe in some insulating webbing...




So, I then had to make a new substitute "undertail" out of a couple of pieces of aluminium... and it seems to work pretty well after a couple hours of cutting and bending and drilling and filing :)




And now I can put the rear set of body work panels back on and then work on the front end... Side note, Im really having a hard time figuring out which screws and bolts and nuts and bushings etc. go where in this reassembly process because its been a couple of months since I did any work at all on the bike.