Installed the rear shifter. Tried out these safety wire pliers. Could have routed the wire a bit better but it is pulling the bolt in the right direction so it will work. The shifter is 20mm longer than stock, had issues with the stock one being to close so this will be a nice upgrade.
I need to service the Clake clutch and rear brake setup so I removed the lever set first, cleaned and lubed everything. I want to do some fine tuning here so I have a email into the owner and will probably be getting some different cams to try, well be back here later.
Polisport makes a bracket that allows the fenders from the 2017-22 bikes to be mounted to these 12-16 bikes. not only does it update the look but it also allows me many options for headlight upgrades, here is the bracket installed:
The fender has these nice collars where the bolts go through. however bolts without washers makes for a sloppy fit and I didn't have any washers that fit inside the recess nice but I found some flange bolts that are a perfect length but the flange was too big. I turned about 20 thou off the flange so they fit in the recess nicely:
Next I wanted to install the rear fender so I could mount the tail light/signals for the electrical. It took some trimming and adjusting but in went on eventually. At this point I thought perhaps I should mount all the new plastics encase I run into a fitment issue its probably better to find that out sooner than later. I was going to save this for the end so it kinda feels like I'm skipping to the last chapter of a book before finishing it but here it is:
I did run into some fitment issues that required some minor trimming but nothing too serious.
Also on the airbox cover these pins screw into a formed post. The first one I did split on me, I will fix it up with epoxy. The second one I heated up with a heat gun and no issues.
Now the curiosity was killing me about how the decals are going to look so I moved onto that.
Did the front fender and mask first:
Its crazy how time consuming decal application is, took 1.5 hrs to do those three parts.
That's all for now, I will probably get the decals finished up next.