Bike Update
April 30, 2008 by John in 2002 TBA
The bike is officially back on the road for Riding Season ‘08.
Last weekend I put the front end back together after swapping my right lower fork leg and front master brake cylinder for the same parts off a Speedmaster (which comes equipped with dual front disc brakes). My dual disc spoked front wheel isn’t ready to go yet, so I’m still running my original stock single disc wheel. That isn’t all bad because I still have the floating rotor and metallic brake pads that I installed last Fall. The Speedmaster brake cylinder seems to give a little extra boost to my stopping ability.
As part of the front end rebuild I had the lower fork legs powder-coated semi-gloss black. I also had the upper fork shrouds (metal tubes between the two steering yokes or “triple trees”) powder-coated semi-gloss black. The yokes are still silver. I replaced the lower shrouds (below the lower yoke) with black rubber fork “gators.” The front end looks dead sexy now.
This evening I rode over to Sherri’s house for dinner and video games with The Boy. On the way home at 11pm it was 37 degrees. However, my other recent acquisition is a Gerbing heated jacket liner. And it definitely works well. I was very comfortable on the ride home.