royster81 wrote:looking good so far buddy and nice use of the 50mm lens

Cheers. It was shot with the 18/70 though as the 50mm would be too close, but you have now given me an idea :D

viper_biker wrote:And this was rolled around the garage today and ran for a few minutes. I think I'll keep it for another year and look for the 'Blade next year,

watch those 2 ropey fuckers eye'ing it up. lets be honest, Santa and Snowman will need some sort of income until next xmas....

Holy thread revival Batman.

Just a quick update. I'm still waiting on the cans coming back from getting repaired (although I am very annoyed about this now...) But the swing-arm is foam filled, the shock is back in, the exhaust is all sprung up, the swinger is cleaned and hob re-greased and fitted. Just waiting on a set of tyres to fit then the wheels will be going on too. Now I have to fit the bodywork and see if the RLR top rad has any clearance issues now that I've boved it back a little to try and avoid and wheel contact. The rear caliper will need re-bled too, but that won't take too long. So all I'm really waiting on now it the cans so I can start the bike up and see how these beauties sound. Hopefully not long left until I'm done.

Keep it coming man...cannot beat a good old Bike rebuild thread

have you routed the brake line through the swinger then viper? (hence the foam filling)

Im planning a end of winter rebuild, once it starts to warm up hopefully il get a lot of these things done too mine, probably the same time i send my pannels and wheels to painters for to full hizzy looks.

Spike16 wrote:have you routed the brake line through the swinger then viper? (hence the foam filling)

No mate, I don't like that TBH. It doesn't bother me having the hose on view and I use a standard chain guard too. I'll grab a few pics tonight.

so why did you foam fill the swinger? just to keep crap out of the hub?

Spike16 wrote:so why did you foam fill the swinger? just to keep crap out of the hub?

Exactly. There's no other reason to do it other than to keep the stones out and the hub to turn freely.

Spent a few more hours in the garage today again. Wheels now have tyres fitted (a 160/60 fits no bother on a 17' rim) most things are tightened in and locked down. I even got the bodywork back out and gave them a clean and fitted some. Anyway, just a few of todays pics for anyone that cares,



120/70 front. There shouldn't be any clearance issues as both my dad and my gave the forks a good old shove to see if contact is in any way close, but thankfully not (might be to do with the Rick O fork kit that's in there)







Siliconed the swingarm cover in place,



And it's been a long time since there's been 2 eyes at the front of the bike,



New bolts in a lot of places, new disc bolts, new fork-pinch bolts, titanium spindle nut and a set of Gazzah's captive alloy wheel spacers,



Now what could be missing from this side... oh yeah, an exhaust Still no word yet on a completion date after 2 months...

Mate looking good havnt got any slip one lying around have you