Remember what I said about riding? I changed my mind, got talking with Verslagen and Lancer and ordered a new headplug + cam chain adjuster plus a Stage 3 cam shaft and 97mm Wiseco piston.
The head plug and adjuster should be here soon, but would still need to send the cam and barrel out for treatment and boring. So decided to work and get the performance mods mounted and running so I can start breaking in the new bits before winter. Quick decisions!

At the building where I live we have an old gardening shed out back, so set up shop there this afternoon and got in a few hours work on the bike.
Got the tank, carb, exhaust, belt and battery box off, and am more or less ready to lay the bike on its side tomorrow to get the motor out. Love working on bikes like this!

Dave wrote on 08/25/15 at 11:09:32:


Haha yeah! In a head wind you shouldn't expect to hit anything above 50mph  
Legislation dictates that a motorcycle number plate this side of the pond be the same size as car plates and at a near vertical angle.. Some days I envy your fancy tiny american number plates.

Dave wrote on 08/25/15 at 11:55:35:


Looks familiar enough. Here in Denmark a trailer has to have it's own separate registration coupled to the cars, but that board looks like what you have have mounted when you have a bicycle hitch mounted behind your car.  Quite common around here.
Very proper and all, but you'd never get away with building your own trailer here in DK. If you lay even a single weld bead on a structural frame member you risk some nosey MOT employee giving you a hard time.  

I put my bike through MOT with some dumbass big plate and then change it straight back to what looks good. Never been pulled over. It's pretty lax implementation of the license plate size regulation on the street here.

strang wrote on 08/25/15 at 13:15:37:

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Same here, my MoT (annual inspection/test) was due the other week and I had to revert to using the huge 'standard' plate.
Luckily, when I bought the bike it came with both a small and standard plate.
My bike has a side-mounted plate, and with the standard size it looked ridiculous.
I've never been pulled over, either  

Anyone know how to clean of that carbon so I can use this honking piston as a candy bowl?  

this thing is gonna be good  

Flint wrote on 08/26/15 at 20:00:25:


Flint - I think your asking me?
So as not to hijack Ferous's build thread I'll answer over on my build.