going up and down (safely)

I tried out the bike lift today for the first time and it works a treat.

I'll need to think up some method of holding back the bar when lowering the lift. Either that or grow an extra arm! The bar which lifts the safety supports needs to be held back, to allow the lift to lower, while the relase knob is turned at the same time. I just wouldn't feel safe lowering the bike on the lift without having a hand on the bike at the same time. Just in case!

I was considering what to do to the bike while it was up on the lift and was just about to start the job of replacing the rear turn signals when I had a brainwave.
I think I will move the turn signals forwards a bit on the fender support. This will mean I'll have to drill new holes in the fender support to take the signal mounting bolt. Hopefully, I'll be able to run the wires along the underside of the support to the hole in the fender and from there follow the original route to the tail-light assembly. Because of the drilling I will have to consider carefully how it will look and more importantly if it will work. I will strip the fender down and see where I'm going from there.

I also removed the Harley badges from the tank and am going to leave the tank bare and black.