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Decisions, Decisions So I bought this scruffy matte black Special tank last June at the Paris swap meet and I have a dingey spare set of...

Another Few Hours of Enjoyment Proper exhaust is on properly; footpegs installed, some cleaning done. Next are direction lights, horn...

Just Showing Off And on the first calendar day of Spring. Now back to brakes, indicator lights, clutch adjustment and so on.

Mock Up for Inspiration There's a lot to do yet, for sure the exhaust back to stock etc., but nice to see a rendition in the sun.

It's a Roller All afternoon and all gets done is basic front end install? Yes but changing this, borrowing that redoing something else...

Balancing Needs The forks have come in the mail, so today I spent a lot of time putting the rear end together, chain guard, plastic...

My thoughts too, but the pipes are pretty close together, you'd have to have an offset to the megs or some sort of staggered mount sort...

It's a Runner! But it won't go, lol. Sorta anticlimactic, though, don't these always start? Not really, I am battling with a BBK and a...

Good News Today I was running the starter to circulate the new oil and figured I would check compression at the same time. All orifices...

Thinking more about it, I am guessing someone decided to grab the threaded cable boss, loosened the set screw, took it. Had that person...

It had been slated to be a parts bike for a cafe build and I think a guy was just taking stuff apart.

Lucky Today! I changed the bottom oil screen and mount plate, nothing remarkable there, the gasket surfaces were fairly easy to clean...

Today was title day. Drafted an affidavit that fulfilled Service Ontario's requirements (you may know that place as a licence bureau or...

Looks pristine now! That's one of my jobs for tomorrow, I am going to lay the Special over on its side and let my knees complain instead...

Magic Button Works! Another few hours this morning and then this afternoon and great progress. Got enough wiring connected to get the...

For now, it's going together with existing parts. Trying to empty some shelves.

Ya Won't Get Far Like That! Spent a happy afternoon mocking up the front end (worn out fork tubes are there just to align headlight...

Frame Rub a Dub; Engine Install Today it was a couple degrees above freezing, but sunny, so I sprayed and scrubbed the frame and then...