Jim2's Blog

Date Fuel Type Litres Purchased kms km/l
28/04/2006 Shell 96 16.2 241.3 14.90
8/05/2006 Shell 96 15.9 239.3 15.05
23/05/2006 Shell 96 16.1 235.9 14.65

Date Fuel Type Litres Purchased kms km/l
28/04/2006 Shell 96 16.2 241.3 14.9
8/05/2006 Shell 96 15.9 239.3 15.05
23/05/2006 Shell 96 16.1 235.9 14.65

NM came over this afternoon and we dismantled the front end.

Everything came apart OKish and there were only a couple of things that ended up burred due to age and corrosion.

The fork seals were indescribable. Even the circlips were corroded and the fork "oil" was a light grey coloured mud. There was also significantly more than 150mls per fork leg too, more like 400mls per fork leg. The dust seals had turned to concrete as well and looked like someone had tried to

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I've taken the fairing, tank, and front guard off in preparation for painting. The condition of the plastic and rubbers tends to support the mileage, but it looks like it has been stored near the sea at some point. I'm going to rip the front subframe off tomorrow and send that off for powder coating, as well as the fork brace and the bracket that holds the front centre of the fairing together.

I'll need to do brake lines as the banjos are knackered (the new lines will have stainless

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