Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater
(By the way, that's pronounced "ecksmass".)
I arrived in the office today to find my mailbox overflowing with packages. A huge wave of parts off Ebay have arrived. I now have:
I'm particularly excited for that last one, as the shocks on the bike now are really crusty looking, and completely devoid of damping oil. The Redwings were almost scandalously cheap, just $63 after shipping -- I paid about $400 for a new shock for the Ninja 250, and the next cheapest shocks you can still get for the CL175 start at $194 (or presumably even more as the dollar falls further against the pound). Suspension parts can get ridiculously expensive. I could probably pay over $1000 just for a pair of shocks for this bike, if I were so inclined.
I also got a call that my front wheel is done, so I can go pick that up soon, and I'll have the bike back together, and nearly rideable! I'm still waiting on a replacement sprocket after the first one wouldn't quite slide onto the countershaft. I'm excited to check out the new brakes. I'm hoping they'll be an obvious improvement over what I felt before, and I'm sure that between the new cable and the fresh pads, it'll be like night and day. As good as the disc brake on the Ninja? Probably not. But way better than they were.
I've probably got enough video after making Part 1 that I could put together Part 2 pretty quickly, with minimal new footage, so that's a potential upcoming project. If I do that, the editing will go a lot faster, as I've already got all the footage on hard disk, and capturing from the camera takes a lot of time. I definitely need More Disk, though. My poor little laptop's running perilously low on free space. I'm not sure where it all went.
With all those new parts in my hands, I definitely know what I'm doing tonight: workin' in the garage!
Posted at 11:34 permanent link category: /motorcycle
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater