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He lives in Spain ............... but don't get involved. In the words of Pete............... he's a cockney w*nker

Swing arm is out, pain in the ass it was, it has a bit of rust but it is in great shape for nearly 60k miles, the powder coaters will just need to sand blast it and paint it. It is bloody heavy.

Got mine through, increase of £66 but that includes £64 of unwanted breakdown cover, time to shop around before I tell them to take the breakdown cover off.

Old design Vs new isolators.

As @boboneleg said, Spain. Right down in the bottom right corner in Murcia province.

In between rain showers I got the bearings and bushes out of the swing arm. They were in pretty good shape but I have new ones including much higher quality bearings, there is definitely signs of the isolators collapsing, the new setup is significantly different. There are various videos of aligning the motor while fitting the rear axle but having examined it it can only fit one way, there is no left and right alignment other than allowing the rear of the motor to slight shift depending on the front upper and lower alignment mounts, once it is bolted up it will assume a neutral position.

It is spoked and has a fair bit of corrosion, I really want to go tubeless.

The famous 55mpg Busa

While your there you might as well .

Didn’t we used to know someone with a busa?

I just pressed them out.

Swing arm is pretty good but powder coating will mean it will not deteriorate.

I love this sort of shit , putting stuff together

Come on Rich , what happened on the drag strip ? show your face and bring the numbers with you ...........

Mmmmmnnn, Dear Boy alway had to have the best numbers, I remember his weight lifting numbers . Born olympian

Rude !!

No one from civilisation is called Tyler.

I am going to pull everything off the old wheel then take it down the arches and get the tyre swapped onto the new wheel by @boboneleg’s American buddy.

At a steady 300mph

I’m wondering if I should swap everything over and put the new rear wheel on.

I don't get it.

Melting. That’s what I’m doing today, just fecking melting. It hit 30 Celsius by 0930 this morning so it was always going to be a warm day. Cleaned the flys off the Benelli in the shade, went out and did some shopping as the missus is laid up with aching back etc and got home to find it was then 39.8 Celcius in the fecking shade. A tad too warm to do anything other than browse the interflugal, drink water and generally be lazy.

Terribly sad today, Sofia’s puppy, Lea, passed away yesterday night. I knew her for 9 years now, and we were very dear to each other. It was a rough night and we now have a dog that doesn’t understand why the favourite thingin his world is not around, it’s heartbreaking.