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its nice when you see them starting to take shape again

Dazza2910 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:23 pm Got the wheels painted at my work for free, so very pleased with that! Friend painted the forks for free too!

Helped balance out the expensive bits!

Also realised after I'd put it back together that I forgot the little fork seal protector things! Found them on the bench afterwards!

Good excuse to chuck a fork brace on

If you don't want to pull the forks off again there are aftermarket split ones available.

Doesn't take long to get the forks out and back in so will do it at some point. Going to have another look to see if I can find the cush rubbers before I go and order more!

It looks like a little bit of Daz has been used on your bike

The picture doesn't quite show the truth! It's not the best cosmetically when you're close up. The forks and wheels are great as they've been painted. Calipers cleaned up good and there are a load of new bolts. Will sort the cosmetic stuff in the winter!

The other end arrived today. Just waiting on the new bearing then can get it fitted.

Chain & sprockets arrive on Monday too.

Dazza2910 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 6:21 pm The other end arrived today. Just waiting on the new bearing then can get it fitted.

Chain & sprockets arrive on Monday too.

So bike porn is allowed on here
That's a nice looking bit of kit

Dazza2910 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 6:21 pm The other end arrived today. Just waiting on the new bearing then can get it fitted.

Chain & sprockets arrive on Monday too.

Good shock those, I had one for a few years and its now on stormy robs bike


oh and that dark spring makes it look way better than the std blue one.

The bike is black so knew this was the colour of spring to go for!

Chain & sprockets arrived today to, so got pretty much everything I need to get it running. Never fitted the bodywork yet though, so hopefully no bolts missing. Think I might be one indicator short, but that's easy enough to fix.

Dazza2910 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 6:21 pm The other end arrived today. Just waiting on the new bearing then can get it fitted.

Chain & sprockets arrive on Monday too.

If Nitron shocks are half as good as they look they should be well worth having

Chris.

As much as I'd have loved Ohlins, WP, Penske, etc, they were about twice the price.

That would have taken me well over what the bike should be worth when it's finished.

Dazza2910 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:55 pm As much as I'd have loved Ohlins, WP, Penske, etc, they were about twice the price.

That would have taken me well over what the bike should be worth when it's finished.

Just out of curiosity ... how much was the shock and where from ?
If you don’t mind of course

It was £460 direct from Nitron. You can choose the weight of spring and it's colour at no extra cost. Then there are other things like remote preload you can add.

Dazza2910 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 8:30 pm It was £460 direct from Nitron. You can choose the weight of spring and it's colour at no extra cost. Then there are other things like remote preload you can add.

Kind of thought it looked a bit too good to be a budget item