Very definition of Masochism

Alright folks I couldn't wait any longer. I had to show you JUST how masochistic I am. Photos below are the before and after comparison of my fork lowers. One of the left is raw after hacksaw, files, and rough emery cloth. The one on the right is after wet sanding BY HAND with 220, 400, and 1000 grit sandpapers and an application of Mother's Mag and Aluminum polish.

It's taken me nearly a week of coming home after working and sanding that bad mama jamma!!! While it was excruciatingly painful to do, and I'm NOT looking forward to starting the next one, I believe it's worth it.

I plan on trying to get the other finished and both of them fully assembled and ready to go on the bike, along with my new seat fiber-glassed this weekend. We'll see if I'm being a little over ambitious. Till next time.

Little update (no photos)

Morning everyone, sorry I havne't been making any updates once again. I have a bad habbit of starting something on the motorcycle, getting REALLY into it and forgetting to take photos.

In my last post I mentioned cutting/shaving my front forks. Well, that's what I've been doing for the past week. It's been an EXTREMELY laborious process of hand wet-sanding the lower tubes in an effort to get them to a near mirror finish. I'm hopping to get one of them completely finished and assembled by sometime this weekend. I'll post a comparison between the new and old once I get there.

Bit of an update

Once again it's been a while since I've written an update. Here's a short and sweet update. It's getting cold here in Maine and an uninsulated garage make it sort of unpleasant to work on steel. Regardless I installed a propane heater in the garage to help with that. Here it is....

Now as far as the bike goes I fabbed up a head light bracket.

I cut the ugly chain guard flappy thing off of the left side cover of the engine as well as eliminated to old mount tabs/flanges for the mid controls that were no longer being used. Here's an before and after photo for comparison. No it's not the same side cover because I didn't want to ruin a perfectly good cover if it didn't turn out right.

I also have on order just over $500 worth of parts. Thing like carbuerator parts, fork seals and caps, seat mounts, etc. I also had an extra set of front forks which I shaved all unused caliper and fender brackets off of. I'll post and update with some pics of them once they are assembled again. The parts for assembly are in that parts order. Well till next time...