Wanted to practice getting the steering head off in advance of the big paint job. Would have been a lot easier if, ONCE AGAIN, I had checked the excellent notes I had made for myself before just diving in and re-inventing the wheel.
Everything actually came apart pretty easily. Though I did forget that as soon as you remove the steering bolt the bottom bearings are going to start falling out. I think I did lose a few before adding the little rectangular magnets to keep them from rolling away.
But ended up replacing them with the caged plastic bearing and now I really don't see any reason why you wouldn't use the caged ones all the time.
The problem came during re-assembly when the forks came up way too short to reach the bridge. Ended up taking the whole thing apart again to see what I'd done wrong. If only I'd read the old notes, I would have realized that it's easiest to screw in a long 10mm bolt and use it to yank the fork all the way up to the bridge so you can secure it.
Other than that, the only other thing to work out is how to lock the center stand in place so that the whole thing isn't so precariously balanced.
Also added in the recently white painted cushions for a color test.
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