MM Bike Build: 1999 Honda CB600 F4 (56k Warning)

[Ginger]

I made some progress today... actually, a lot.

Big thanks to Gerald for letting me borrow his front stand - it's very useful. I'm going to have to go buy my own now.

I took care of the windscreen a couple weeks ago and never really posted anything about it. Well, yep, it's done.. and a little dirty:



I was tired of the bike pulling to the right, and the clip ons being misaligned. The left clip on was bent, so the plan for the day was to replace the forks, realign the triple trees, and throw on the woodcraft bars. The Woodcrafts presented a problem in the past because Honda designed a very strange anti-rotational device for the throttle assembly that nobody was able to remove (the count was up to like, 6 people that were baffled). A tech gave me some advice and I thought I might be able to tackle it today. No luck on that front, actually, which is no big deal, because the OEM bars aren't actually bent more than a centimeter. Also got the forks and triples punched out.

Success! The old buggers:



No pictures of the work on that, but I promise that it was pretty boring.

... and then there was my chain. It was so loose that it... yeah, alright *sister joke*.

It actually wore this into the poly-slider bolted to the swingarm:



It ground pretty well into the swingarm itself, too. It was very hard to photograph, though, so you can just take my word for it. I don't imagine compromised the integrity of the piece... but if I ever feel like taking on a silly project I'll put a Pro-Link back end on it.

I bought myself a chain breaker and press, and got to it.



Off with the old. Huzzah!



And man... it was old:



And in with the new:



I meant to do an oil change, too, but I ran out of time. I'll take care of that, and hopefully the clip ons, later this week. Oh, and just for fun -
I like to work on my motorcycle in the house: