Hello again!!!

Alright, so yeah it's been a while. Sorry. Been a lot going down between family stuff, work stuff, winter storms, and a car accident. No injuries...besides my pride and my poor truck. Here's a photo of her weather the storm. She looks so sad and there's nothing I can do. Still feel pretty damn shitty about the whole thing.

But anyways...onto the real purpose of this blog. Posts about the happenings in my little shop while working on my bike. Here's the brief....

Moved all (well most) of my tools down to the basement. Couldn't stand sub-zero temperatures in the garage anymore. Down here it's a steady 50-60 degrees. Plenty warm for working with a sweatshirt on. Good thing in the summer too as it will stay nice and cool.

Got myself a larger compressor from home depot. My dad came up one day and helped me haul it home from the store, haul it into the basement, mount it to the floor, wire it up, and plumb it. Only took a couple trips back and forth to the store to get it all figure out. Working like a champ so far. I can now actually run my air tools. Air tools are so gosh darn nice when doing metal work.

The steering stop on the bike was cracking off the frame and getting twisted. Nothing that can't be solved with the trusty TIG welder. Here it is all welded up and fixed.

 No idea if I posted this already. Lengthened the kick stand back to a stock length. For some reason the previous owner shortened the damn thing. Bike would have fallen over if it was that short. While I was at it I installed a custom foot for it too. Hopefully the bike wont sink into the pavement like stock 650's do with their damn small ass kick stand feet.

 Finished up the forward control linkages. Here's a shot of the shifter control...

 Here's the shot of the rear break control. You can also see the new master cylinder installed as well. This master cylinder is off of a 2004-2005 Kawasaki ZX10 or ZX10R Ninja. Hoping it works out. I might have to do something more about the direct linkage. Worried that engine and road vibrations might shake the linkage bolt loose. If it does then the linkage arm from the control and pushrod of the master cylinder can get out line and wont work. We'll see...

 Close up shot of the rear front stay welded to the swing arm. That was a fun little adventure.

 Shot of the rear master cylinder reservoir mounted. This one was fun too. Almost melted the damn thing and caused a fire. Good note for anyone welding near plastic/rubber/synthetics...DON'T DO IT!!!

 Close up shot of the electronics box mounts underneath the rear swing arm. No box mounted due to the fact it's sitting in my computer room being thoroughly neglected. Not having too much fun working out how all the electronics will fit.

 Here's the current state of my custom front blinker mount. Decided to do a little modification from what I posted SOMEWHERE earlier in this blog. You'll see in a little while what I'm doing. Hard to explain and MUCH easier to just post a finished photo.

Well that's all for now. I'm going to go down some advil now for the whiplash from the accident. Hopefully the house doesn't blow away during the storm. I am quite impressed by the fact that my yard is still practically bare from all the damn wind. However, there is a 4 foot snow drift in front of my door. That's going to be fun to shovel through when the storm is over.

Till next time....