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That all sounds really fun. Is this an occasional thing for you or are you both regular tour guides. I assume the bikes are hired? Id really like to do a circuit of Iceland oneway, maybe once I finally retire ...

How long is your trip due to take. It sounds like fun.

My original thought was a military green, but I’m quite liking the unfinished aluminium complete with filler so I’m not sure. The tanks for these are not easy to find as they almost always rot out at the lower shoulder where the water that inevitably gets into the tank accumulates. I picked up a second one that was for sale near me recently, complete with holes at the lower shoulder, which has been welded up. I need to grind back the welds and see how good of a finish I can get. If it’s ok I could have one painted and one bare and see which I prefer.

Got quite a bit done today, although it still looks like a bag of crap. With the exception of the hazard lights ( need a switch) all the lights work, rad is back on, back brake works, forks back together. Still trying to find a 6.5" old school headlight that I like, then I can burn the £12 alliexpress one that's on there. I might leave the tank as it is ... and I have a second one that I might eventually get painted. Need to find somewhere to stash the ignition barrel, and make a coolant expansion tank. Oh and get my wheels back. Still awaiting the front brake lines. I can't alter the stand, or make the exhaust until I get the wheels back and I can see how much space a have to play with in front of the back wheel.

All the rusty bits would drive me nuts but I guess you get a lot of salt on the roads up there near the North Pole.

I’m using LED indicators and the load from them is too small for the original relay which just goes into meltdown. The resistors in each indicator line allows the flasher relay to work properly. I initially forgot them . When I had wired it all up I tested the indicators and just got a high pitched squeal and nothing else, so had to redo those bits. Will connect up the front ones tomorrow, I have sleeves which goes between the upper and lower fork bridges on each side which have the indicators built in. I was going to put them on each end of the handle bar, and may still do that as well but got the ones integrated into the sleeves used, and cheap so will go with it and see what I think once they are fitted.

I had a free day today to spent it in the garage. I'm on my 4th iteration of the under seat tray to hold the battery, ECU and other electric bits I want to hide. I miscalculated the measurements for the battery connector mount positions so had to re-drill some of the fixing points. Couldn't face making a 5th iteration so filled the holes which were in the wrong place with weld. It all finally fits in place, still need to weld the side plates on, but the seat clears all of the bits and pieces. Indicators and lights all work except the headlight but not fitted that yet. I'll tidy it up a bit tomorrow. If I have time I'll put the rad back on and start on the headlight wiring. Turns out there is a loose connection on the original engine cut off button, couldn't work out why the ignition final stage wouldn't come on, took me a frustrating hour to find it.

Found a hedgehog on my driveway yesterday, poor thing had a massively swollen back leg, was missing an eye and had a lot of wounds around its head. No idea how it got so badly wounded. I found a rescue place near me who has access to a vet, sadly he concluded the poor thing was too badly injured to make it.

Feel free give me a hint...

Where has he gone? Has he got the boot again?

I voted for Alfalfa on the basis that there is an FTR1200 in the background

Nice bike

Just scraped in by the skin of my teeth ...

Just picked our dog up from the vet. He had vomititus at midnight on Thursday which got so bad that he was throwing up blood. No Idea what caused it and it was bloody scary, but £2000 and lots of worry later and he seems OK now thankfully.

This thing is the same, it has the EI box hidden in/under the birds nest of wiring under the tank. If and when I get around to rewiring the thing I don’t think I can get rid of either, which is rather frustrating.