> A short summary of what I’ve done on the Suzuki the last couple of days: I painted the swingarm, reinstalled it and the fender (sorry for the blurry pic). Added a carter ventilation filter (not sure if I’ll keep it (there)) and I made the rear end nice and smooth (gave it a base Read More …
> Found some time to work on the Suzuki again. To keep the battery clean and prevent the rearwheel form slinging dirt straight into the airfilter I still needed to make a rear fender. So that’s what I did: loosely mounted: Also took out the swingarm and painted it. It should be dry enough to Read More …
> …. to my bike-building shoes. It was about time Haven’t been able to do much on the bike. My study’s been taking up a lot of my time lately. Didn’t order a head gasket yet either. Did replace the mesh of the seat on both sides for metal plates though. Also been experimenting with Read More …
> Ok, test ride report would be a better dexcirption. The good news first: The ride has iproved a lot after some modifications (mainly on the gear shift mechanisme). The bad news list is a bit long unfortunately: – Pretty sure the head gasket is leaking. A lot. That’s not something I can solve easily Read More …
> Conditions were far from ideal, but the bike was ready for it and I ran out of patience . So what was it like? Slippery… Wheel spin everywhere, on ice (obviously), wet road and in the grass. Had LOTS of fun though. It’s impossible to say anything about the handling, it was to slippery Read More …
> Yep. Bought a chain. Also moved the lower shock mounts forward so the suspension is stiffer and (more important) the clearance has increased. Had it running and the rear wheel spinning to test everything, but it’s not really ideal to take it for a testride. Something to do with snow… Besides, I still need Read More …
> Spend yesterday afternoon and tis morning on making a wiring loom. Apart from the indicator part I’ve now finished it. That means: time to test if it starts… As you can see: it does. What you don’t see on the video is that I spend the 15 minutes before that getting really tired while Read More …
> At least, for me: Electrics. I’m making the wiring loom from scratch. Extra challenging for an electra noob like me, good thing is that the wiring loom is relatively simple (very simple). I moved the bike into the kitchen, it’s freezing outside. Gotten pretty far today, pretty sure I’ll have it finished tomorrow.
> Didn’t work on the Suzuki yesterday, I picked up work on the bike this morning. I planned to work on the wiring loom today (and I will), but I had to make a bracket for the ignition key first. I realized that a finished wiring loom would mean that I’d be very close to Read More …
> I want to make my own wiring loom since there’s a lot of stuff on the original one that I’m not going to use and I want a totally different routing. To make it easier to find faults I wanted to have the bike running with the original wiring loom of the SP that Read More …
