Its not a project

So considering its not a project it did take 4 hrs of my time on Saturday afternoon.

Insurance is active as of today so I was trying to get it sorted out to how I want it for now ie minus the massive rear light and indicators plus trying to flatten out some of the nasty scabs on the fork legs in the hope of prolonging the seals.

I also discovered a few more horrors thanks to flattening the battery by leaving the lights on whilst checking the indicators.

This massive ring connecting the live to the battery was barely connecting it and is almost big enough to fit over the bolt, and to boot there's no battery strap so if I hadn't secured it, the damn thing would be rattling round all over the shop. I'll be riding it this week so I hope there's no more horrors.

The seat base has a pretty bad case of tin worm, but should last me long enough to fab up a rear loop and seat base for the Bratstyle look.

It was all going quite well at this point, and I'd done some test fits of the seat to check everything was ok.

But unfortunately I ended up with this, not exactly what I was after, and I'd run out of time to sort it out, as I'd been neglecting my other DIY  tasks and had to crack on with them. Oh well another hours work and a couple more holes in the already swiss cheese mudguard and we'll be there.

Progress

Well there's been progress on a few fronts, after many many many months and visits to the unit where the project bike is, and lots of meters of tube ruined practising and working out all the hows and the why's followed by buying a former and re working out a few things, I have finally got the major parts of a subframe that I could weld together and I'm happy, BUT I'm aiming for perfection in my eyes, and am going to try and make the whole top section from one piece of tube.

There's progress on other fronts too, I have a front wheel attached and centred

But best of all, the footings for my garage are in, and what a monster its going to be, dream garage here we come.