Stuff has been dropping through the door, and some very little stuff has been happening in the garage on account of my nipples growing bigger than my nob when I go out there. On the plus side, I've been keeping the already fucking loaded Exige's coffers full, as this must be the third or fourth kit I've ordered off him now.
The bike has got some gratuitous charcoal tat to get sprinkled upon it..
The forks and yokes were taken off, and then replaced with a nice front end from a 749r. The dedication plaque came off nice and easily too.
Interestingly even in it's road setting, the 749R yokes have a different and unique to the 749R offset to the stock everything else yokes, I didn't know that.
To be fair its just nice having a set of yokes with a hole in the bottom again for a front lifter stand. Mudguard will get replaced with some charcoal fibre snotter I had lying around in the garage.
I was going to put it on the banana but the frikkin thing doesn't flex enough to put in without front wheel off, so it never went on it in the end.
The back end has had some tarting as well..
And a caliper was replaced for the same but in ponce tint
because why? - well because it needs to match the calipers which needed a pretty good clean up to free up a couple of the pistons and bring them up to my standard. I've got a set of 1098 masters as well which were blessed with those horrible pissy shorty levers which took many hammer blows and heat to remove the pins from. Fucking things. Proper levers going in - unless I decide to use the RCS ones I've got stashed away.
and I know you bunch of deviants like a bit of pegging.
Now, interestingly, I was talking to
@Andyb about throttle conversions, and on investigating one of the previous owners had done a conversion on the throttle.
I thought it a 916 family throttle as it has a single not dual cable, but it can't be as it's got no fast idle nubbin. However it has a shorter twist, 70degrees or 80 degrees or something like that, definitely not 90. I can see me cutting the locating bit off, as it interferes with the banjo on the master cylinder.
Since it started life at laguna cycles in Kent, the workshop manager at Laguna Performance has kindly sent the previous owners he knows of a mail to see if any of them are in possession of the red key and code card. Fingers crossed. If not I've got a whole lockset complete which I'll send to scorpio electronics for mileage correction and install it on this one, as I do like it to have all the stuff it should do. The clockset I have has 4k on the clock and this old lass has 12.
last bit of stripping and cleaning to go and then I can start throwing stuff back on there.
Inconel link pipe has gone off to the inconel doctor to be cloned to fit the ballymoney silencer
The back end still needs to be installed. I bought a rear shock and linkage off a man on the DF who had some time back broke his 749r. That was christmas. At the time of writing, there are only 349 days left till christmas 2021 and I hope he shifts his arse and gets it to me before then.
Annoying as I said I'd have half of that bike at the beginning of last year and when lockdown 1 came I said the same again. In the intervening months apparently he sold it all. People are strange.
I've got a 749R tank for it, which to be fair, looks a bit shit shape wise vs the RS or the regular tank, and an RS seat unit I'd like to fit. The bloke who sold the tank still needs to come and unlock the bloody thing. I've also got a monoposto subframe which I will be keeping in silver, as with the black subframe there's nothing to break up the sea of red.
I'm possibly thinking of making a road bike friendly mounting for the RS seat unit, as the 749RS fitting kit although ideal for a race bike is poo for a road bike, and after forking out 400 bones for the thing from Speed Carbon, buggered if I'm punching two more holes in the back end of it when there are two there already. Maybe a heatshield that incorporates all of the mods and the mounting will be in order.
Failing that I modify and remould the front of the RS seat to accept a road bike seat unit. Dunno.
I'm also looking at making a rad shroud infill panel as well because I've got some charcoal airtubes to fit on there, and the OEM air tubes were really good with their wee rad shroud bits, so I'd like to keep the same thing going.
Its got some BT021r rubber on there, which I'm trying to decide whether to keep and just change the rear for a 190/55 as it's a 190/50 currently - this will go on a 5.75 rear I have for the bike. if I was keeping the stock wheels on it I'd stick with a 180.
So as always with these things, we wait.
