Horse on a Hog

I had grand plans to get lots done on the bike over the weekend, despite still waiting for the belt. And then work intervened.

Managed to fit in a small twiddle tonight, which makes me feel vaguely accomplished. Had a go at fitting the new Jiffy Stand spring, but the new spring doesn't have much stretch, and it was starting to look actually tricky. I've got to take the left side floorboard off anyway when I pull the primary apart, so I'll leave it to then as at that point I should be able to loosen the jiffy stand bracket and move things enough to easily fit the spring.

Was more successful removing the left side exhaust. It seems to be possible to replace the belt without pulling the exhaust off, but in my mechanical noobishness I wanted to do it by the book, and it was actually fairly straightforward. Pull the heat shields off (one of the worm screws was a bit tricky to get at but perseverance and a small spanner did the trick) and then undo the TORCA clamp and the bracket mount and it all just came apart.

And in the process I discovered that the small bracket holding the crossover pipe was broken. That'll be another part to order, I wonder how long it's been like that?

The manual seemed to suggest that getting the crossover pipe off the rear header would be a mission but a touch of CRC and some elbow english and it was off in a flash.

And that was it for the evening - can't really blame anyone else, I spent too long inside chatting with my friends. But this Saturday should be more productive!