How I bought it around septeber time last year:
Then took off the fairings, tank, rear sub-frame and exhaust (you'll see why eventually) until it looked like this:
To start off with I decided to take the brake calipers apart to re-paint and re-build them.
It took a lot of faffing about to get the pistons out, mainly due to my lack of planning ahead lol, I split the calipers before removing the pistons(thinking they would slide out easily - big mistake). But eventually I got them out after putting everything back together, bleeding the brakes, then pumping the pistons out.
So then I wire brushed them back to metal.
Then painted them satin black with the writing done in white.
So thats the calipers done, I'm going to re-use most of the pistons and buy a couple of new ones because some of them had seen better days. Not putting them back on the bike yet as there is still much to do.
Next up is the clocks. I've decided to change the arrangement a bit to allow more room for the front fairing i'll be putting on.
Attempt 1
I made this from a thin aluminium sheet, which I think was too thin (about 1mm) and also too tall. To make it shorter I am modifying the temp gauge which is where I'm up to now.
I re-soldered those blue things (don't ask me what they are!) because they were positioned on the side of the body - making it bigger than it needed to be. Now I'm making a new plastic casing to hold it and a smaller face.
