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That all sounds really fun. Is this an occasional thing for you or are you both regular tour guides. I assume the bikes are hired? Id really like to do a circuit of Iceland oneway, maybe once I finally retire ...

How long is your trip due to take. It sounds like fun.

My original thought was a military green, but I’m quite liking the unfinished aluminium complete with filler so I’m not sure. The tanks for these are not easy to find as they almost always rot out at the lower shoulder where the water that inevitably gets into the tank accumulates. I picked up a second one that was for sale near me recently, complete with holes at the lower shoulder, which has been welded up. I need to grind back the welds and see how good of a finish I can get. If it’s ok I could have one painted and one bare and see which I prefer.

Got quite a bit done today, although it still looks like a bag of crap. With the exception of the hazard lights ( need a switch) all the lights work, rad is back on, back brake works, forks back together. Still trying to find a 6.5" old school headlight that I like, then I can burn the £12 alliexpress one that's on there. I might leave the tank as it is ... and I have a second one that I might eventually get painted. Need to find somewhere to stash the ignition barrel, and make a coolant expansion tank. Oh and get my wheels back. Still awaiting the front brake lines. I can't alter the stand, or make the exhaust until I get the wheels back and I can see how much space a have to play with in front of the back wheel.

All the rusty bits would drive me nuts but I guess you get a lot of salt on the roads up there near the North Pole.

I’m using LED indicators and the load from them is too small for the original relay which just goes into meltdown. The resistors in each indicator line allows the flasher relay to work properly. I initially forgot them . When I had wired it all up I tested the indicators and just got a high pitched squeal and nothing else, so had to redo those bits. Will connect up the front ones tomorrow, I have sleeves which goes between the upper and lower fork bridges on each side which have the indicators built in. I was going to put them on each end of the handle bar, and may still do that as well but got the ones integrated into the sleeves used, and cheap so will go with it and see what I think once they are fitted.

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.

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.

Feel free give me a hint...

Where has he gone? Has he got the boot again?

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

Nice bike

Just scraped in by the skin of my teeth ...

Just picked our dog up from the vet. He had vomititus at midnight on Thursday which got so bad that he was throwing up blood. No Idea what caused it and it was bloody scary, but £2000 and lots of worry later and he seems OK now thankfully.

This thing is the same, it has the EI box hidden in/under the birds nest of wiring under the tank. If and when I get around to rewiring the thing I don’t think I can get rid of either, which is rather frustrating.

You might be right, never ridden this bike or any other K100. I do kind of enjoy doing this sort of thing though, and I’m learning a lot as I do so. This is the first bike I’ve ever done anything significant to. If I hate the end result I’ll just flog it . These things are by no means good looking bikes but I do find them interesting.

I'll also get all of the new steel bits power coated at some point. I'll get the frame done too next winter.

Managed to connect up the new clock, all the wiring will go under the tank. It looks like a birds nest but next winter I will rewire the whole thing and replace lots of the bulky original stuff with a Mo Unit Blue.

The new lithium battery will go in front of the ECU and the other electrical stuff can go either partly in front of the battery and /or under the ECU.

The stupid ECU doesn't quite fit between the frame bars so I need to mount it high enough so it will fit. I can then use the space under it for the battery connections and some other electrical bits like the indicator resistors etc. The original ECU supports had AV mounts so I guess I should do so again, although the whole thing will be mounted upside down. I made up a plate which will hold the ECU over the new tray with enough space under it to accommodate the other electrical bits. The seat will be mounted higher than the original so I have a plate each side to infiltrate the gap between the frame and the underside of the seat.

Finished work a bit early today so had a while to think about how to accommodate the big ugly ECU that I cannot get rid of, and the battery, the original used to live in a big box on top of the gearbox housing. The plan is to try to tuck them away under the seat position. The ECU box is the aluminium thing resting on the back of the frame in the two photos above. I made up a tray that hooks onto some existing frame fixings at the front and screws to the underside of the bar which supports the back of the seat.

I can’t help noticing something different about your roads …. ….the nice even smooth surface without potholes or gravel and sand all over the place… more than 10m2 of tarmac without a hole in it could become a tourist attraction for us Brits

The EUC the guy is sitting on reputedly will do 78mph, tho I have my doubts...and you'd have to be certifiably insane to try it, and 300nm claimed peak torque. A new one is 4.5K. It's currently the most powerful one available but give it a month and something will supersede it.

Just for you Busa ... https://www.facebook.com/reel/902932269230730

I have a railway line on the other side of a field behind my house. I tried to do my normal dog walk up the track beside the field and over the railway bridge a few days ago but lots of police/ambulance/fire engines up there so went a different way. Turns out some poor soul decided to end it all by jumping onto the tracks in front of a train. Walked up there today and lots of people have left flowers on the path over the bridge. I cannot imagine what circumstances would make someone take their own life and I that way. Made me very thankful for my life and family, and even the work things which have been weighing on my mind a bit recently. Sorry to be morose but every so often you have to think how lucky you are.