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Reason for editing: Last Edit: March 03, 2014, 17:09:11 PM by CDNRatMan

Just had a call from the guy doing my seat and it is ready and can be picked up next time I am down that way, he said it was going to be lower and a bit narrower then it was and has a decent amount of foam still in it and a layer of gel foam too.
  Also found out this morning, seems that Dave the mechanic who was going to help me with the valves went down south for a back operation, and is just gotten back and seems his now ex wife has moved and left no messages for him or who has been calling, so need to see if and when he will be working again, so valves will be on hold for a bit. Going to start my hunting of parts and pieces for the next list over the winter......lol......

#1. Replace both set of brake pads, this will encompass, rebuilding both calipers and checking all hoses and cables involved in the operation of the brakes, [color=red]DONE[/color]  
#2. Bike now has 33 some ks on it and not knowing if the valves have ever been checked or looked at that is in the plans for after xmas, [color=yellow]waiting[/color]
#3. Seat is getting new foam and gel foam, sculpted and formed, by a local custom seat-maker,[color=red] DONE[/color]
#4. Replace front springs with 1500 Progressive springs and new oil, remove and check triple tree bearings and parts, [color=red]DONE[/color] 
#5. Replace rear shock, remove all the pivot points and bearings, grease fittings, check and replace as required, grease, [color=red]DONE[/color] 
#6. Add what will be black bumperettes to the rear fender, First coat of gloss black and drying, [color=red]DONE[/color] 
#7. Replacing all the chrome bullet heads with black ones,  [color=red]DONE[/color] 
#8. Build the nacelle' paint it black and install it, have the parts here, [color=green]decided to forego this mod because of the windscreen[/color]
#9. Replace handgrips,[color=red] DONE[/color]
#10. Replace rear sprocket with 38T 0ne because of 0hi0 barn said to  [color=red]DONE[/color] 
#11. Rear passenger folding floor boards. [color=orange]Waiting for GreenBarn to find me the parts for this[/color]
#12. Rectifier cover at the powder coater [color=red] DONE[/color]
#13. Mystery project, [color=green]project might be out because lack of finding correct parts required[/color]
#14. Second mystery project, [color=green]still hunting up the parts[/color]

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Posted by CDNRatMan

- February 24, 2014, 20:08:25 PM

Nice try but please do not involve Mr. Troll into your screw up......trying to throw a nice guy like Mr. Troll under bus is not good karma for you. I do have a birthday coming soon so a nice set of black floorboards would be nice, and living in the land of everything, a simple task for you.......bet you 49 would do it if he did not live in Sasquatch country........and he would never throw Mr. Troll under the bus.......now D1 ..........

Posted by greenbarn

- February 24, 2014, 19:52:17 PM

Quote from: CDNRatMan on February 24, 2014, 17:59:55 PM
ok let me be gentle here, let me be really good about this post.........how can we help , I have been after you for over a year now about project #11 and you have gotten me no place......so 13 and 14 are now on hold actually because they can not be done over the summer.

I thought when Troll and I found those boards for you we were doing our part.... If I had realized you wanted me to BUY them too, I would have done it, man, and had 'em mailed up to you! I would have then had my man TROLL fly into North Bay and put 'em on for you, as well. Next time.....

Posted by CDNRatMan

- February 24, 2014, 19:11:11 PM

ok now that you switched the pictures, it is the lower mount that you are having issues with then. Because they both look like the top mounts are to the holes in the frame fro the seat bracket. Think it is Ted's that they use the bars as the passenger foot pegs too.

Posted by Drift1

- February 24, 2014, 19:02:57 PM

No sir ratman . Ted's goes from the rear peg up to the seat itself .

Posted by CDNRatMan

- February 24, 2014, 18:55:31 PM

is that not mounted to the same place? Hard to tell really.

Posted by Drift1

- February 24, 2014, 18:53:13 PM

Thanks 49 , I saw Ted's however his won't work with a sprung seat being the mounting point on top is to the seat bracket , I believe ? I'm looking for a set like this

Posted by CDNRatMan

- February 24, 2014, 18:51:26 PM

problem with the boards is I saw a set and really liked them but have never seen them anyplace, and to top it off could never find the picture again, so it is a matter of just waiting the right ones to fall in my lap or at least to hunt them up......I have the time.......

Posted by Troll

- February 24, 2014, 18:47:32 PM

There was a set of rear boards for a vn800-1500 on eBay for a week, the the price went straight up in the last hour...They were chrome, though.....

Posted by 49Reo

- February 24, 2014, 18:46:24 PM

Hey, D1, check out Ted Struble; he makes and sells bars; he's on the home page.

Posted by Drift1

- February 24, 2014, 18:34:33 PM

That's a good start to 2014/2015 winter projects there my friend . Seems your having the same trouble finding those rear floorboards as I am a set of rear crash bars . Maybe GB would make me a set or handy man 49 . I'd ask Troll , but one doesn't want to shake the bear

Posted by CDNRatMan

- February 24, 2014, 17:59:55 PM

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So, Ratman, did projects #13 and #14, the "MYSTERY PROJECTS" ever pan out? If not, you gonna let us know what they were, or just keep us waiting another year? How can we help you, if we don't know what you need???

ok let me be gentle here, let me be really good about this post.........how can we help , I have been after you for over a year now about project #11 and you have gotten me no place......so 13 and 14 are now on hold actually because they can not be done over the summer.

so my list for winter 2014 are as follows

1. rear folding floor boards, ps no help from GB....
2. mystery project 13
3. mystery project 14
4. black braided brake lines front and rear with colour matched fittings and red banjo bolts

that is the start.........

Posted by greenbarn

- February 24, 2014, 16:54:04 PM

So, Ratman, did projects #13 and #14, the "MYSTERY PROJECTS" ever pan out? If not, you gonna let us know what they were, or just keep us waiting another year? How can we help you, if we don't know what you need???

Posted by CDNRatMan

- February 24, 2014, 16:23:19 PM

posted a similar thing in the pub......lol.....

Posted by 49Reo

- February 24, 2014, 16:19:07 PM

Don't feel lonely and left out, Troll; it's an epidemic....seems to be everywhere.....

Posted by Troll

- February 24, 2014, 14:51:32 PM

Everything is done on my list except for this little problem keeping me from getting to the street....

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