12-30-08....Couldn't help myself

It went up to 56 degrees here yesterday and the bike was in pieces...So I put it back together and took it for a ride today, it went up to about 50 degrees. I guess my illness is obvious. Since all I have is a mesh jacket with a quilt liner, I layered a little and was fine. I really like the new Bridgestones, a good investment at a good price. I had no tach or brake lights during the ride, so I'll have to go through all the connections I broke down during disassembly, apply dielectric grease and get things in order. No problem......other than having to remove all of the upper fairings.

The final paint work has to be completed, but I'll wait until March when we string some balmy days together to do that. For now the bike will be ready for me to get my "fix" on those occasional warm winter days. I also did a tape job on the seat fairing to try out a number plate configuration. I'm up in the air about it.

12-15-08....New(er) upper fairing

Scored a complete upper fairing, including turn signals and headlight unit on Ebay for $20. It arrived today. There are NO cracks or broken mounts, but it does need refinishing. The headlight and turn signals are mint. I should be able to sell what I don't need for what I paid for all of it (note. sold headlight unit and covered all costs including other side fairing i purchased earlier). Good stuff and a distinct upgrade for parts that had been fixed/glued/bondo-ed.

Maybe the old fairing can be used as a basis for the RC45 replica fairing I wanted to do.

12-07-08....Repair, Adjustments

Disassembled the cluster because it was damaged in a previous fall. Turns out that the mounting bosses had been broken and repaired poorly, so I did them right and they should be good from now on (Lower housing costs $200 from Honda). The upper fairing stay seems to be tweaked a little, too, so I spent some time un-tweaking it. It's better now.