With a nod to Mick

"I see a red door and I want it painted black.

No colors anymore I want them to turn black."

Great 'Stones tune. Maybe I should have added that to my playlist. In fact, I think I will.

Hold please.

OK, good to go. Thing is, that's the plan. If I'm gonna celebrate the motor on this bike, then everything else has to take a backseat. So to speak, of course. I'm not adding that carpet covered passenger backrest ever ever ever. So, everything else gets to be black.

Or something else, but the point will ultimately be to get that motor as clean and shiny and perfectly awesome looking as possible (without actually having the tools, the know-how, the work space or the ability to remove it from the frame, take it apart and clean it and put it back together and still have it run. The first several of those steps I could easily do - but that last may be the most critical.

So we'll do our best and make the most of lump and all it's glory. The best cleaning products and toothbrushes money can buy. And of course Mitchell Moto's famous elbow grease.

But one way or another that motor will be king. Everything else gets to play servant. Me, as the rider? I'll be the jester.