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Out for a shake down run on the Sprint this morning. Behaved very well after all my messing around with it. New heavy duty clutch springs don’t feel to bad in Use. You can feel the extra effort but not bad. Absolute joy to ride so far, no mistaking you are piloting a big heavy beast of a bike but enjoying the contrast to my Hondas.

Busa on his way to a hairdresser convention in his miata.....love the hair Rich...it's so luscious...

I’ll put a couple of photos up later. Out and about at the moment

What did you use on the CB forks?

Which paint did you use for the forks?

I'd be willing to consider a pole...if I should stop making these ai pictures...and Ill respect your wishes...but I think this is hilarious has hell...but you Brits lack a sence of humor....Rich do you think Buckster could use some rogain ? Think Pete would be spilling his tea all over his keyboard at this moment...lol

How would you like to join @busabeast in his miata , going to a hair stylist conference ?

Mine is all moss too. I’ve given up fighting it. I have to go round filling up the rabbit holes every other day, although as I’m not having to go in to work for the rest of the week I’ll stay up one night and thin the bloody rabbits out a bit.

A lovely morning here, blue sky, and quite mild outside, I have my gear on, so I will open the shed, and!.... get the lawnmower out.

Hell no...lol But they shop looks nice enough, like I told him a wyll back when he was talking about this endeavor, hope you know your gonna be working for less than minimum wage for sometime...if he's able to withstand and manage everything well enough...it should work...

Just been out and got some fuel and fired the Sprint up. Sounds awesome to my ears. Started up reasonably quickly once the fuel got through. Came off choke and I had to adjust the tickover slightly but that was it. Impressed that my low fuel light decided to join the party with fuel in the tank. Everything is working including the fan. No reason not to ride it now. I will start with a few short trips until I am used to it, but I haven’t felt like this about a bike since I had my 1978 R100RS.

My shed has been named the ‘Healing Shed’ according to Shadow. Her bike is now resident as I am going to tidy it up again. First job is to get these scratches out that were caused by Storm Goretti a few weeks ago. I was given a random orbital car polisher for my birthday several years ago. I never used it, don’t really care about polishing cars that much, plus my car is pretty good paint wise. Today was the day to try it out to see if I could fix Shadows tank. I was surprised how well it worked with just Autoglym polish. Bit to big and cumbersome for a bike really but it certainly worked well. The results aren’t perfect but pretty presentable. Mucky bleddy thing to use though. I got as much polish on me as I did the bike. Tucked away for the night, I am going to touch in the rust sections on the frame and crash bars tomorrow. Loads of little things to do. And I don’t doubt Shadow will want it back then to smash up again. I don’t mind really.

The Sprint is ready to be used, I won’t say finished as it has done 50,000 miles and is 28 years old, there is always going to be something. Only thing left on the list for me though is a wheel refurb and to paint the valve cover but apart from that I don’t know of anything that needs doing. Both of those will be a next winter jobs. Last few new bits for today. I bottled using the black plate so bought a new standard one. Also a new Triumph vacuum line for the fuel tap, I wasn’t happy with the line on it. Also a new knob for the fuel tap as the original one is blobbed up with Araldite or some sort of epoxy. Before refitting the clutch cover I stripped and checked the clutch. All friction plates right at the top of the Triumph spec at 3.8 mm or just above. The plain plates all had no measurable warping. I would hazard a guess that this is not the original clutch. While it was apart I fitted the EBC heavy duty clutch springs. Supposed to be 15% stiffer than standard, couldn’t tell really but the action seems much more positive. Hoping the slip I had was due to the slave cylinder which I have already rebuilt So all back together, just need to get some E5 and take it out for a shake down. Gonna wait for a dry day though and give myself every chance to get used to it before I go on any group rides. I so wanted to give it a major polishing but want to give the engine cases plenty of time to cure before touching them. They will get a satin finish and lose the shine over time, like standard.