That is my new driving buddy and life coach, Alt Highway Overshort:
[From MAAP, I guess…?]
You possibly can inform that he has an interior energy, and I do every part he says. However we don’t have time for him proper now. Nor do we have now time to handle the assorted the reason why this man could be placing sand down the again of his personal shirt:
Why? As a result of once I begin one thing I end it–rapidly, and in a half-assed manner. And as you understand I just lately began overhauling the ‘Noner. Right here’s the way it seemed once I returned to it as we speak:
Tearing the outdated crap off a motorbike can really feel onerous and demoralizing, however from right here it was all placing new stuff on, and so I used to be full of optimism–however not sufficient to strip the bars of their outdated residue. See, this isn’t that sort of restoration, and I’m not that sort of particular person:
Additionally word I went for behind-the-bar shifter cable routing, which I already surprise if I could remorse.
However not less than I took the time to file and poke the cable housing ends:
And every part seemed fairly tidy once I was achieved:
I’d give myself not less than a B- in cable administration.
Then I put in the brand new chain, and earlier than reducing the cable ends examined to see if every part labored:
The whole lot appeared to work:
Between my very own ineptitude and the situation of the tools once I obtained the bike, this appeared nothing in need of miraculous:
After I’d made the same old changes and was glad I’d be capable of shift, I trimmed the cables, and at last I wrapped the bars, which after a full overhaul (or not less than the half-assed course of i take into account a full overhaul) usually appears like bandaging a affected person:
With the cables minimize and crimped, the bars wrapped, the shifters re-hooded, and all fasteners checked, it was time to journey it up and down the road to see if it could crumble:
It didn’t crumble.
Off to take it for an precise journey now. When you don’t hear from me in every week ship assist.
