Sunday, January 8, 2012

S90: Handlebars Coming Together

Put in a nice long session today full of odd jobs, but mostly centered around getting the headlight and handlebars back together after waiting on new parts, painting, and cleaning.

The newly painted plastic headlight case goes back into place.  Painting this piece was more an excuse to start figuring our my rattle can techniques than a serious painting effort. 



Next the headlight assembly and speedo go back in.  You'll note the rough edge at the bottom of the speedo's chrome part.  Normally you'd crimp that back into place but I purposefully left it that way so that it would be easy to take apart again if I need to.  I'm not 100% sure that all the fixes are complete to it, so I figured I'd leave it easy-to-open until I'm sure it won't need to come apart again.



The switches go back on, both with new levers (the old left side was bent, the old right was broken at the tip).  New throttle and brake cable.  New cable adjusters.




Unfortunately, the throttle holder on the new cable didn't quite fit the dimensions of these handlebars, so I switched it out with the original one.  This is a shot of the old one, which was just a tad too small.


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