have you had a week like this before?
...crazy work schedule, married with children, chores, honey-DOs, way too much to do...so you decide that you urgently need to spend time in a garage and start a new project?
Here is some plastic surgery I performed for no good reason, at all.
Zee MODs:
1. New Rizoma bar (wanted something more narrow to split lanes)
2. Rizoma tank reservoirs and brackets (all 3 in silver)
3. Clear plastic tubing from kurveygirl (?) on fleabay
4. CRG levers, standard length. Did not want to increase the pull effort, and prefer symmetry for brake and clutch. Black and red.
5. Rizoma grips. Just liked the design and motostrano gave me a discount incentive
6. Evoluzione 30.5 clutch slave in silver (as long as I am bleeding the whole thing, might as well help my carpal tunnel, right?)
7. I had the Aprilia mirrors, plus the original mickey mouse ones from Ducati, which caused one of the posters to say in an unrelated thread:
"Do you think you have enough mirrors?"
I took this very personally and immediately ordered aftermarket Ducati mirrors with integrated LED blinkers. I meant to get the carbon fibre ones, but they were probably fake, anyway. Also fleabay.
Lessons learned, perhaps of interest:
1. Yes, bleeding the rear brake absolutely requires taking the caliper off. And while bleeding....do not forget to put a shim between the pads. Yes, I bled mine twice. One also needs to remove the plastic cover for the brake cable in order to have room to hang the caliper on the frame with a zip tie. Do not forget to put this back on, or your chain will eat your brake line (did not have to learn this lesson)
2. I used electrical tape on the bar to help secure the 2 control pods (having pulled out the plastic tabs), but I did drill a hole in the bar for the throttle cam enclosure. I did not need to re-adjust any of the throttle settings after swapping grips, but getting the old grips off required some patience.
3. Mounting the mirrors on the clutch and brake perch via adapter was an option, but this made them stick out too much for lane splitting. I used new clamps, mounted further inboard. A little more busy, but more functional.
4. Side outflow reservoirs are the most flexible config with the rizoma brackets. The factory bracket for the reservoirs looks home-made fugly, sorry. It had to go.
5. Mirror electrical is not logical. Aftermarket mirrors with LEDs had red and black wires, while to stock wires were green and black. Black does NOT go to black, btw.
6. Blinkers in mirrors still blink a little fast, but I will either find the right resistors from a local vendor, or my hidden menu will finally switch to "LED". Or i will get used to it.
What is next? Painting the subframe red, a new and lighter shorai battery, finally the bigger tank? All of these would still be cheaper than recreational drugs or a shrink.
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