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Good Morning Herman, I just wanted to take a moment and personally Thank You, my friend for documenting this build for the Forum Members! While NOT everyone has the ability to dive in as deep as you have on your custom build Herman, I am hoping that this build will inspire the other Forum Members to work on their own bikes to keep them on the road! I find myself checking the Forum daily to see what headway you have made on your latest project. I am excited to hear this bike run, and drive in the near future. Keep up the "Good Work" Herman, I'm sure you will be putting on the miles very shortly! Great Job, Sir!! Earl

Hi Everyone Made more headway on the build. I am working on a bit of everything as time permits in the evenings and put a few hours in this weekend. I was held up on completing the Calipers as I ran out of the Cast Iron paint and it appears it has been a popular color since no one in in Town had it in stock I managed to find some at Napa and they had to bring it in from Montreal. I picked up the can Friday and Sprayed the Calipers and the four rear brackets. I build the new Throttle Cables and installed them along with the new grips. Installed the new Russell Brake and Clutch hoses. picked up some Wire clamps and used these for the Hose and Throttle cable Management as well as the Spark plug wires it looks neater than the Wire loom I had on the Plug wires. Finished patching up the Fairing halves with my homemade ABS filler made up of acetone and ABS chunks (found the recipe in an old post from saddlebum) it works really good at bonding and filling. It is sandable but seems harder than the original plastic. Installed the Brackets on the Rear and also installed the saddlebag brackets and mounted the mufflers and Clamped them no leaks on the exhaust and it sounds really good. Put together all 3 calipers and mounted them on the Bike and connected all the hoses and installed the speed bleeders now just need to bleed them all. Started sanding all the plastic pieces and got through about half the parts I am hoping to finish all the sanding over the next couple nights and Plan on spraying some paint this coming weekend. I mounted the Inner Fairing on the left side so I can finally mount the new fuse box and Ignition Module. since I am not putting the factory radio back in there is all kinds of room in here for these 2 Items along with the relays I need to install due to me changing the controls. It is starting to look like a bike again I will likely go over the entire bike to make a list of what is left to do or what I missed. I have attached pictures of the progress. Good Nite all Herman

She's doing great. I have to tell her to slow down and not over do it all the time!