Making Repairs In The Sauna

Parts arrived after 1pm and I rushed into the city to get the bike, which was getting new tires, inspection, and fork skins at Cycle Therapy. Everything was delayed. The traffic was slow, the train was delayed an hour. Finally I rode it back to the New Jersey school and began working at 6pm. I installed the new saddlebag mounts and 12v outlet, built a new toolbox from scratch and installed it, and gave the bike the final once over. There were some snags, such as a Givi mount tab broke and the rear brake wasn’t seated properly by the last mechanic that checked it. Nothing too hard to get around, just took more time. It didn’t help that the temperature inside the room was about 98 degrees. I was working in just a pair of shorts and literally dripping sweat the entire time I worked, a total of eleven hours with a 45 minute dinner break. I finally finished and closed up the school at 5am. The befores:



And the after:

posted by goat hill dreamer @ 4:20 PM