My wife and I had a free week, which we decided to spend for a short trip around central Romania. Fortunately, it is not far to go there from Varna and the distance between the cities is small, so you...

This history proves that there are motorcycles that you do not want to sell, but want to keep and ride for many years. This happens rarely, but......

Stock rear shock....

Needed to make up a new kickstand. As I said before I got a shortened one with the 17" wheels. But that one was too short....

This was the card board template from the last post, it was traced from the cut down plastic panel I had a bunch of posts ago....

Figured I'd do this in a separate post. I think a lot of people run into this problem but I don't see too much talk about it here....

Wanted to do something that didn't involve the rear of the bike for a quick break....

So remember when I said I didn't have a plan? Well that was really dumb.......

Had to move this stuff around....

With both sides goobered on both edges this is how they are looking all mounted up!...

It's time y'all......

That is the result of my work.......

The discs are sand-blasted, painted into black matte, the brake disc is drawn and made ventilated and scraped with a metal brush and a circular saw....

I give you a redesigned seat release, no key but retained the lock housing. Chinese lever adjuster repurposed. The anodize should last longer down there....

Oiled the K&N filters and stuck them on for a look....

Brake line retainer stolen from my XX arm and trimmed, I just had to sneak a Honda part into the build :P...

4 cans of brake cleaner, 1 can WD40, half a dozen rags, 2 toothbrushes, a Scotch Brite pad, 6 hours labor and my last few squirts of S100 to detail this motor....

See if this helps......

Exhaust finished. Tidied up the mount tab, welded the can to the mid pipe, cleaned up the mid pipe and ran over the previous welds with the tig torch to dress them up....

Cleaned up and partially restored my gauges....numbers are still a bit sunbaked.......