In what is now a fairly rare event, I'm not seeing Sarah this weekend. She's at a hen party thing, so I have decided to make good use of the time. This morning, I took the Ninja out for an hour or so, which felt great especially after last weeks lack of riding. Despite its age, its still a fantastic road bike and I doubt I would have enjoyed myself if I took the Ducati out instead. She felt good, sounded good and apart from one moment where she popped out of second gear, ran good as well. Tomorrow I plan on taking her up to Oxford where I'm meeting a good friend for coffee. I don't get to see him nearly often enough since he moved North out of London and its a great excuse to spend most of the afternoon on the bike in the process.
I started installing my Samco hoses as well today, which was interesting. I had to take off all the front body work, including the right ram air duct, which then gives unrestricted access to the rad cap. Whilst that was off, I took the opportunity to inspect the air filter, which was fine but then proved to be an absolute shit to get back in place. Eventually, and by that I mean about an hour later, I managed to coerce the blasted thing back into place. Ha take than inanimate object. Man 1, air filter 0.
I managed to replace about half of the hoses, but got to the point where I needed to take the tank off, but the light was fading (I've got terrible lighting in my garage), it was getting cold and I didn't want to make a massive mistake and regret it. I had planned on changing my levers to, but there's no hurry. The road conditions aren't perfect and my next track day isn't until April.
I started installing my Samco hoses as well today, which was interesting. I had to take off all the front body work, including the right ram air duct, which then gives unrestricted access to the rad cap. Whilst that was off, I took the opportunity to inspect the air filter, which was fine but then proved to be an absolute shit to get back in place. Eventually, and by that I mean about an hour later, I managed to coerce the blasted thing back into place. Ha take than inanimate object. Man 1, air filter 0.
I managed to replace about half of the hoses, but got to the point where I needed to take the tank off, but the light was fading (I've got terrible lighting in my garage), it was getting cold and I didn't want to make a massive mistake and regret it. I had planned on changing my levers to, but there's no hurry. The road conditions aren't perfect and my next track day isn't until April.
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