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The makeover of Miss America was completed today . At last I found a yellow tank , it's a Clarke tank from USA. Now she's all yellow, much better than boring grey

We now have another RedNeck to piss & moan about....only this time he's from YOUR side of the pond....

Are you pining for Marcel

I've just been pulled over by a Police Officer. He saw my licence and said I'm supposed to be wearing glasses. I said I have contacts. He said he didn't care who I knew.

I had a free day today to spent it in the garage. I'm on my 4th iteration of the under seat tray to hold the battery, ECU and other electric bits I want to hide. I miscalculated the measurements for the battery connector mount positions so had to re-drill some of the fixing points. Couldn't face making a 5th iteration so filled the holes which were in the wrong place with weld. It all finally fits in place, still need to weld the side plates on, but the seat clears all of the bits and pieces. Indicators and lights all work except the headlight but not fitted that yet. I'll tidy it up a bit tomorrow. If I have time I'll put the rad back on and start on the headlight wiring. Turns out there is a loose connection on the original engine cut off button, couldn't work out why the ignition final stage wouldn't come on, took me a frustrating hour to find it.

Already immortalised on the front page, the world press will be going wild!

Popped up to Lanson bike night. 70 mile round trip with Steve and Martyn. About 30 bikes or so.

you could always change the Resistors for an LED relay.. sold on many E sites and the Bay of E,s

You should put some in the busa seat.

Congratulations @busabeast.

Is she away then?

I need you here

Just been out on the loop to get petrol and thought the CBF was looking scruffy so got the suds out. Still looks tidy when clean .

Miss America arrived yesterday and after sorting the swap and quick cup of tea Sarge headed off on the T700 for his homeland (Wales) for the night........... I had a couple of hours getting au fait with my new (to me) Donkey. First thing to come off was the O/E seat which I replaced with my 15 year old corbin......... I also fitted my sacrificial side panels as the O/E panels are too tidy to leave on and get rubbed by my luggage. Then I removed the O/E rack and pannier rails and fitted my Scaggs rack and copy pelicase...... and last job before it got too late was to fit the JNS headlight..........

Very Coldplay

It's Triggers broom.

Check list for Donkey work today…..

Resisting loads.... the clues in the name

Time to vote for your favourite Picture, some classy entries this month. Poll Closes 23:59 on April 30th. Mays BOTM submissions will commence on the 23rd with the vote starting on the 28th @Pedro BMW R1200 GSA @Saul CBF600SA @busabeast Gen 2 Busa @alfalfa BMW R1300 GS @Nute Indian FTR1200

21c here today at 3pm..very very unlike Welsh weather..bet it will snow weekend

I voted for Alfalfa on the basis that there is an FTR1200 in the background

So with the forks back in it was time to see if I could remove anything to shave some weight. First to go was the luggage support rails , I can always fit these back on if I need them later. I dug out the original tank for this bike but it had the locking cap fitted and I never got the keys with the bike. I tried a few tips to remove it but in the end it needed drilling out ........... Then I needed to flush the tank as it had 9 year old fuel in it and now a load of swarf .............. I left the tank to dry out for a couple of days and ordered a new cap , once it arrived I fitted it to the tank. The Suzuki comes with a Mikuni BST carb and a fuel tap that has a vacuum line so I had to block that to get fuel to run from the tank to the carb Johnny Jiggler was employed to run the fuel from the oversize Acerbis tank to the Suzuki item .............. Next I fitted the original side panels in place of the sacrificial panels I'd been using, now it was time for a short run to check everything ................ By time I got the end of the lane the fork seals were leaking which didn't really surprise me, so they came back out and I fitted the Cogent forks by moved them up through the top yoke by 50mm. I will strip the other forks in time now and see what needs repalcing . Today I rode it into work and was well chuffed to find out that it handled fine. I'm chuffed as I really like this bike , it gives good performance for a single and is one of the best carburatting bikes I've ridden .

I think that's probably it for quite a while now, I hope I've got it as I want it now

Heat and WD-40 wins again .................... and loud FMF silencer removed Tomorrow I'll try to fit the new Delkevic system

Miss Australia got the pannier rails as I don't want them...........

And no Subs to pay either! Why can't all forums be like this?

It's only been there for two years!

Keep posting Alan Partridge gifs!

Absolutely, less enticing to the thieving scroats

So your first job was to make it look scruffy? WHAT?

This morning I rode it into work so we could see if the header bolts would free up as I have a new exhaust system to fit, I think we caught them just in time before they became welded to the head........ We replaced them with some Ducati items (temporary fix) as we will fit studs and copper nuts when the new exhaust system goes on .............. The bike rides really well, it has a strong mid range with the TM40 and the suspension soaks up all the pot holes nicely

Found a hedgehog on my driveway yesterday, poor thing had a massively swollen back leg, was missing an eye and had a lot of wounds around its head. No idea how it got so badly wounded. I found a rescue place near me who has access to a vet, sadly he concluded the poor thing was too badly injured to make it.