Now that the weather is finally decent occasionally for riding I’ve started to put a little into getting my motorcycle up and running a bit better.
Here’s what I got last weekend:
- Rear Seat back/luggage holder
- New seat
- New chain tensioners
- New left engine side cover (near the left foot)
- Plenty of stuff to clean the bike with
I had a little issue mid last week before I did this. I was riding near Fenway and my left chain tensioner for some reason broke. The allowed the axel to move, the chain went slack and popped off. In the process it broke some metal off near the front sprocket. I replaced the tensioners and left panel that broke a bit and its good to go again.
I just ordered a few new parts:
- New clutch plates
- Front and Rear sprockets
- New chain
- New air filter
I still need to do and get a few more things though:
- Carb rebuild kit (the carbs aren’t bad, but could be better I’m sure)
- Top end gasket
- A complete valve job. I don’t think I can do this myself unfortunately.
- Repaint the gas tank
- New exhaust (I’ve found some Harley ones I’m going to try to fit on there but I’m open to ideas)
I’d also really like to figure how to make the front brake more powerful. I’ve heard replacing the lines with kevlar/metal ones should help a lot but I’m unsure.
