Where's Gixxer? Part two.

On Sunday I rode 548km in Northern Thailand, riding in some rural areas (where I caught the incredible Mexican Sunflowers in full bloom. A sea of yellow in a steep and fabulous mountain route). One lo...

First step was to build the dust excluder assenblies. This is really just installing seals and O rings. Apparently some time during '71, there were two seal designs. One was a conventional pressed-...

Some kinda sketchy downhill that was a lot steeper than it looks on camera...

The morning turned out to be sunny, but then the clouds quickly ran up and a heavy rain started, so at some point I had to make a stop for dressing in a waterproof suit...

Beautiful day up the north east of England. Beautiful bike to match!...

I sandblasted the frame and ther parts a few weeks ago, and can finally start putting some of them together.  Once set up, sandblasting is a quick way to get down to bare metal, especially in har...

I started by completely dismantling the motorcycle into spare parts, taking into account the convenience of their subsequent maintenance and painting. This was not difficult and was done almost with m...

I've been working slowly on the forks for the past few weeks. A lot of distractions lately, but things are still moving. From an appearance point of view, I knew I'd be repainting parts, but the cur...

The side covers were decided to be painted in graphite, and the fence paint did an excellent job – I really liked its color and texture. This paint took quite a long time to dry, after which, using th...