plans

I've spent the last few days going over in my head what I'm going to do to the bike this spring and how I'm going about it.

Firstly I need to sort out the leaky seal in the left hand fork. I've bought a new (cheap) right hand fork lower as the threads are stripped in the axle clamp on the one that's fitted. Pity it's the left hand one that's leaking as I'll need to strip down both. The new one needs powdercoating so I'll get the rack and the pannier supports done at the same time.
I've made my mind up that I'm going to fit a dished tank and have decided on the Lucky F*cker one. It's one which has a deeper tunnel so rather than buy the mounting bracket they supply, I'll make up a brass cover to hold the tank and protect the wiring which runs under the frame tube. In order to give myself a bit of practice at bending the brass sheet,  I've started to make up a box to cover the electrics on the rear mudguard. All I need to do is solder the joints on that.

Then it will just be a case of fitting the small black headlight I've had in the garage for months, change the oils and tidy up some of the wring and that will be all for this winter's rebuild.
All of these plans will be subject to changes. I've still not ruled out buying a spoked rear wheel but that's going to be big bucks so will need careful thinking before that gets put into motion. I may be better using that cash to pay for a pro paint job.

Will post as I go along as I'm needing some dry sunny weather.