It's been a while (a whole week) since I did any work on my bike.
That's as much to do with the rainy weather as anything else. When it's over-cast the light goes early here in Scotland and so, some days at the weekends, I can only effectively utilise a couple of hours. And, as usual, it always seems to be rainier at weekends!
My wheel arrived and it's a good 'un! So that will now sit in the garage until I can afford to get the front end built around it. With Christmas coming up on us like a freight train, I'm not able to go out and purchase the things I need to even get on with re-wiring the bars, never mind swapping the forks.
Which has caused me to have my next crisis!
I've been putting the bars on to the yokes, just to give me some idea of how they'd look and that's got me thinking. That's always a dangerous thing, especially when it comes to customising my bike.
As I'm hoping to buy black, upside-down, Cerianni forks, matched to black billet callipers, I finally decided that the bars would look much better in black. So one evening in an idle moment, I googled and came across a site which sells the same bars as I've already got. The only difference being, they also do them in raw steel. The web-page had a pic of a bike with them fitted. They looked just right until I realised that the ones on the bike were 8 inch risers and not the 10 inch that I bought.
So, now I've e-mailed to get a price and am seriously considering buying them. I can then decide on the height I prefer and if it turns out that I keep the lower ones I'll put the chrome ones on e-bay and powder coat the raw steel ones.
Just as well I hadn't started to rewire the bars, as I would probably have regretted fitting them and only wanted to do the swap anyway!
Why is nothing straightforward?
That's as much to do with the rainy weather as anything else. When it's over-cast the light goes early here in Scotland and so, some days at the weekends, I can only effectively utilise a couple of hours. And, as usual, it always seems to be rainier at weekends!
My wheel arrived and it's a good 'un! So that will now sit in the garage until I can afford to get the front end built around it. With Christmas coming up on us like a freight train, I'm not able to go out and purchase the things I need to even get on with re-wiring the bars, never mind swapping the forks.
Which has caused me to have my next crisis!
I've been putting the bars on to the yokes, just to give me some idea of how they'd look and that's got me thinking. That's always a dangerous thing, especially when it comes to customising my bike.
As I'm hoping to buy black, upside-down, Cerianni forks, matched to black billet callipers, I finally decided that the bars would look much better in black. So one evening in an idle moment, I googled and came across a site which sells the same bars as I've already got. The only difference being, they also do them in raw steel. The web-page had a pic of a bike with them fitted. They looked just right until I realised that the ones on the bike were 8 inch risers and not the 10 inch that I bought.
So, now I've e-mailed to get a price and am seriously considering buying them. I can then decide on the height I prefer and if it turns out that I keep the lower ones I'll put the chrome ones on e-bay and powder coat the raw steel ones.
Just as well I hadn't started to rewire the bars, as I would probably have regretted fitting them and only wanted to do the swap anyway!
Why is nothing straightforward?
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