What have I done to or with my SS today. Nothing. What have I done for my SS today, now that would be a better question. Nothing would still be the answer though. I did all the stuff days ago...ordering parts for my 900 SS resto-mod.
Today is just the day that all those parts came in. Sorta anyway. One or two came in last weekend. Today my new carbon front fender from RSR Moto arrived. All I can say is, if you were on the fence about ordering from RSR or someone else, RSR stuff is excellent quality. I ordered some Ti bolts and a rear hugger from them previously and knew from that experience that I was going to order my front fender from them too.
Other stuff that arrived is an alloy tube that I'm having machined into an axle spacer in order to fit the wheel from a later SSie bike to the forks set up I already have. Yeah, I could have just ordered set of SBK forks or Monster forks with the 25mm axle, and I may do that down the road in the future. For now though, I'm just going to have an axle spacer machined to fit the 20mm axle parts that I already have.
The reason is, the bearings I ordered for the wheel are the proper OD and ID but the width is 14mm. The stock bearings are 12mm wide. I have 2 choices. Machine the wheel to accept the wider bearings or, just keep the 12mm wide bearings and machine a spacer to take up the difference in axle diameter. A 1ft length of 25mm OD X 19mm ID was just $6 on Amazon. I dunno what it'll take to have the ID machined out 1mm but I can't imagine it would be a great deal of money.
Also, I ordered 10 ft worth of 10 gauge primary wire to wire the start system and grounds. That came in today also.
Toying around with ordering a new shock. Not sure if I wanna do that right now though. I have a shock from an SSie that I'm planning on using, but it is a Sachs. I can't find a rebuild manual much less the parts I'd need to do the rebuild.
Anyone have thoughts on that or a source for a manual...or better yet, someone I can just send the shock to for a refresh? Honestly, all I was planning on was change the oil and service the nitrogen and call it a day.....sean