Christmas come early

As promised Andy duly arrived at my house on Friday bearing gifts. I was as excited as a very excited thing as we shifted all the parts and boxes into the garage. Below are pictures of the filling of the vacant garage space:

BEFORE


AFTER


So now, on top of the already impressive list of stuff, we have :- two sets of wheels (slicks and wets, with discs), a full exhaust system (with cut-down Hyabusa cans), spare discs for front and rear brakes, a lovely pair of rear-sets, spare brake calipers, complete set of body work (including dummy tank its actual alloy petrol tank), a lovely but unusable alloy petrol tank (the green one above soon on eBay), a selection of sprockets, a broken White Power rear shock and tons of other odds-and-ends. All-in-all a pretty fantastic amount of stuff, and a real treasure trove of racing booty!

Andy and I also had a long chat about the project, and although we thought we were making very good progress, we fully realised that time was not on our side. There was just so much to do before the February deadline. With that in mind I started straight away by taking our box of shocks, two salvageable KR1S's and the badly broken WP, to Racing Line in Derby for a service and set-up. I was pleasantly surprised by their enthusiasm for what we were doing and the fact that they gave very sound advice. The first bit being "Don't bother with the WP unit, as we're scared to even contact them let alone wait for the price!", and secondly that there they could make a pretty good shock from the KR1S bits. It will take a few weeks to get it back but will definitely be worth it, and all for seventy five pounds!

Won't get much done tonight as I'm off to see Bill Bailey in concert at the Nottingham Arena, but promise to roll my sleeves up tomorrow and crack on!

Boyd