I guess winter is done...but I still have parts in the mail.

So what I ended up doing and what I wanted to do were two totally different lists.

What I ended up doing;
-polishing my front forks,
-polishing all of the polished parts on the engine
-getting forward controls (awesome story, see below)
-fixing my turn signal; it broke again today so **** it.
-put a CD over my air filter because I can
-putting a DK products tank lift on it
-getting drunk in the garage a ton
-putting new front brake line on
-putting new grips on
-finding out Jameson is my new drink of choice
-losing/finding extra parts that I guess aren't that essential.

...not necessarily in that order...






before:




after:
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So I called the Harley shop to see if they had the forwards for my bike, they did so I scheduled a pickup date; blah blah everythings fine. Come the day they said it was gonna be done I call them and see when they're gonna deliver it back.
"Oh yeah we found your shift linkage was about ready to snap and you had a broken *something* seal so we have to replace all of the seals in your differntial."
"ok well how much is that going to be?"
"About $400 with parts and labor"
"Alright, whatever just do it."
"Alright, let me put this in the system....OH! I found a screw in your tire."
"What?"
"Yeah I was looking at it and there was a screw in your back tire"
"I just got those last August; I dont think I have but 500 miles on them."
"Well let me text you a picture of the screw."
*gets text*
"I'll be damned, alright ****ing do it then; theres nothing I can do."
Somehow a cement screw became lodged in my back tire just so that it wasn't leaking. A $600 job turned into a $1200 job. And to top it off they threw 10 wheel weights on my back tire. Sure its balanced, but it looks like hell. So I got permission to buy some new wheels.


Heres how it looked as of yesterday. (Still have polish everywhere; haven't put the lever back on the spicket to give anything a bath).



I'm debating to leave the front fender off or not; I'll have to see what it looks like when the new wheels come.

 

Put on the front fender. Everything looks good but that. Of course that's just my opinion, you do what you want, it's your bike.

 

Try to avoid riding that till the salt is off the roads and the snow on the side of the roads quits melting down and leaving humongous puddles. The salt spray will play havoc with the polished aluminum, the covers on the engine/trans are not coated.