Ducky....
Yeah dude I have essentially broken my build down into 3 stages. Mostly cuz it's my daily driver and I had to keep it an rolling restore. My bike has only been out of commission for 5 days during the entire process, everything has been planned to keep her on the road.
The first stage was powder coating so I did a bunch of wrenching and replacingrbearings, rubber bits, hoses and lubing stuff and all that fun maintentance/deep clean while parts were at the powdercoaters.
Stage 2 was body and paint...this took a while. I had to teach myself welding and fiberglassing to do the back end work I wanted to do. I actually built a subframe about 2 years ago and was riding it with a Ducati monster pad I had fashioned to fit on the subframe for about 2 years. I had purchased a k100 tank on eBay to replace my dented original tank(from my 2 early drops on this, my first bike). My original plan was to strip and polish the aluminum tank and do a minimal cafe build. But when I got the tank in and saw the oem pearl white paint was pristine I couldn't bring myself to do it, I had to change my plan to keep that pretty paint.
Once I got the powdercoating done it was time to tackle the real for real fiberglassing for that tail section. It took me about 2 months to get the seat shaped and glassed, reshape the radiator shroud for the k100 lines, fix some minor body work.on the engine spoiler and then off to the painter. He did a decent job matching as I was able to track down a few pearl white paint codes.
This brings be up to today. Now I have the 3rd stage of my build left to do.....electric, guages, hand controls. This is the stage I've been dreading the most as I feared this is the stage that will put my bike down for a few weeks while.i sort everything out. I'll probably hold off for the season though so I can ride for a bit.
I'm probably gonna do an m-unit conversion and I already have levers, new master cylinder and switches. Still gotta get a new brake line, cables, guages, idiot lights(none now, yeah so...) And of course wires to build out the new loom...oh and design a new bracket that mounts into the old handbar area on the top tree to hold all the lights and speedo and guages. I have the schematic for the m-unit from.the k100 forums so I'm studying it now.....
Anyway, visually.its about 95% done here, technically I still have 1/3 of the job left to do, it's all just hidden under the pretty stuff. She rides as well.as she ever has, about 40k miles on her. I just have to stay right in top of the cooling system.and oil every ride to make sure all is in order...till I at least get idiot.lights, though I think I'm gonna end up w guages instead.
