Few more pics of assembly

I have been doing a bit here an a bit there which didn't seem like I was making any real head way when I noticed I had actually moved the project on a fair bit. So I thought it was time for an update and a few more pics.
I have still to polish any of the alloy, truth be told I am saving that job until near the end as if I get busy again the bike will be shelved an I will only end up having to do it again but what I have done is degrease, clean an paint all the horrible little brackets and start assembling some bits an pieces.
The headlight I bought which can be seen in the pictures was fitted then duly taken off an put back in its box to be sent back, I got it all bolted up stood back to admire my handy work an their is a dirty great crack in it!!!!! I have put the wheels in at the moment as I need to be able to move it about so I can get easy access to both sides of the bike, I did ask swmbo about getting another garage to ease congestion but was told politely To cough or at least that's what it sounded like!
The loom is on and the freshly painted battery tray is fitted so my next job is too make some spacers so I can fit the shortened rear mudguard, do a bit more wiring and then see if it will start, I dread filling those carbs up with petrol as I stripped and cleaned them out so I just know there going to leak like a sieve.

Kenny Robert's Indy mile

This is just an awsome clip!

Poxy choke lever!

Why is it that I have had loads of bikes with the choke mounted on the carbs and never been a problem but when i decided not to refit the Fireblade choke lever to the handlebars I kept forgetting to shut it off? It seemed like a good idea at the time, and would have been one less bit of clutter on the yolk, but alas I have had to admit defeat; drilled 'n' Tapped the yolk and bolted it back there for all the world and most importantly me too see!!!

Although I had one last act of childish defiance left in me!

A bit of Cb750 progress

Pleased to finally get a bit done too the old girl, next job will be cleaning and fitting the wiring loom.

Few pics

A few pic's I took last time out

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The cure

The wheel bearings checked out okay, and the head bearings were dry but possibly reusable but i thought I ain't come this far to put it all back together again and find out that there is still a problem, so I fitted new head bearing's and a new front tyre, and a massive improvement straight away! No more wobbly front wheel at low speed (always a bonus in my book) but still not holding a line like it used too, so what i did was dropped the forks through the yolks another 5mm and this seems to have cured it.

Time will tell, I need another good run on the bike to know for sure but tbh I am lacking on the motivation front, every time I get the chance to go for a ride I would sooner do something else, dunno maybe it's the pre-birthday blues that I get every year and with this one being a biggie I find myself doing a lot of recollecting and soul searching at the moment.

Long time no see

It's been a while since my last blog so i better bring you up to speed on recent event's of the fireblade.
For a start the initial test ride didn't go well! the bike felt like it was riding on knife edge and the front end was very unstable so back to the workshop and a bit of a loosen and a tweek off i went again and this time it felt better but still nowhere near right. I upped the pre-load on the rear shock and this definitely made it feel better and I thought at the time with changing the seating position i might have to try to get it to sit down more at the front, she certainly felt like the tail was wagging the dog, but the changes I made had made a vast improvement so I thought the old gal would be ready for a proper shake down, Wrong! by god was I wrong, the trouble with my earlier runs was the road is a bit of a one trick pony, its not going to throw any surprises up and its pretty uniform, also I was running her low on fuel so that I could change the petrol tank ( which I have done by the way) when I went too meet up with Al I filled the new tank and straight away I was fighting to keep her on the road, every bend the bloody thing wanted too pick itself back up as soon as you tipped it into a corner and then as the day went on the steering got progressively worse meaning that when i slowed for roundabouts it wouldn't steer.

So after a bit of discussion we narrowed it down to: wheel bearing's, head bearing's, the step in the front tyre although the con census was that this should make it fall into corners not make it harder to get it over or the bike was still sitting down too much at the rear.......... to be continued