Jonno.

Well I finally got off my ass and did some more.
I took the forks apart and changed the fluid because the front felt a bit so so. What a difference. Previously it felt like the bike wanted a fight when going around every corner. Now it goes where I tell it.

I took the flaking paint off and gave a good shine with a scotch pad left to right until I got the finish I wanted (not mirror) and then clear coated (can't be bothered painting).



So now it's all good, I get my brake lever and I take it for a spin. Only to look in the gas tank and find rust (which was hiding because I looked ) so anyway after a few days of electrolysis I got fed up and got some rust remover from mitre 10 mega for 15$ which worked. I snapped the fairing brace by walking into a mirror also .
I removed the hanger from the exhaust because it was all scratched, bent and I didn't have a mount for it (also held on by pillion foot peg so no biggie); you can still see a little bit of the welds but it looks a lot better.





Still debating whether to paint the fairings but I managed to get drunk and attempt plastic welding with a soldering iron, and I can say it was a huge sucess. Previously broken parts close to breaking in half were quite strong (here's a particularly bad one after)
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So now I'm going to spend all night taking the calipers apart because they don't want to release the disc

As soon as that's done and I glue the rad guard back onto the fairings I'll have a half decent looking bike. All that's left to do is get a new chain and sprocket, fairing brace, bar ends (fuck they are expensive), and get fairings painted and rims powdercoated (when I can finally decide on a scheme).