Which is OK in a way, since I did manage a couple small things I had 'started' a while ago. And I say 'started' as in I decided on a direction of something and had just hand-tightened this or that to see what it would look like- or if would look good- and then sort of went on to something else. I guess at some point in the ownership of this bike, I had billions of ideas and there were miles and miles of changes to traverse. So these small things were sort of little dreams of weird things or designs choices, or, well whatever they were, they were unfinished in a the truest sense, and would need to become a checkmark in the 'completed' column eventually.
Even the exhaust pips are not fully mounted and tightened up yet, since I have to mount the rear sets first, and I don't have them yet, so... on it goes.
So one of these little silly things I thought of a while back, was to mount that Guinness bottle opener I picked up in Ireland, somewhere on the bike. Not that I'll likely entertain the concept of drinking and riding (not a proponent of such things) but the concept of chilling in the garage and talking to one's own motorcycle and keeping each other company... well that one I do appreciate, and so having a bottle opener handy would, well, come in handy.
Plus it's my bike and currently there's only my inner voice telling me yes or no, so there.
And this bike could use as many interesting and semi-distracting elements on it anyway.
I also stopped putting off addressing what to do about the other broken Fury emblem thing. 'Cause sometimes it's so much more productive to just ignore a problem and not take care of it, said no one ever.
Well, I may have said that statement a time or two in my lifetime...
Ultimately, I just eased both halves into enough of a curve to mount and made them get along and went with it. In the end, it is what it is, and it's a story. And in the end of it all, that's all we have anyway- and I do love a great story.
I did also take care of the permanency of the tank mounting issue, too. Since originally this tank would sit flat on the mono frame center section, to get a more sporty and cafe look, the subframe came with a tank mount which rotates it up in the back (front still mounts as before). Lifts it up about 5 inches in the rear, which creates it's own list of problems to solve and makes all the carb and vent hoses too short, too. So now that the tank is painted and the emblems are mounted (for now anyway), the tank is also mounted and tightened down and all is good there. Can still be removed easily, since until I get to the wiring it's gonna have to come off again.
So ultimately it was a good day in the garage, even with just some smaller things being addressed. The last thing I would want is the bike to be cruising down the road and remember I never did tighten X or correctly mount Y and start seeing things fall off. Which, if there's one thing I've usually taken fairly seriously (yeah, maybe more on that part later), it's having a bike that's solid and road-worthy, since it's only two wheels on the ground at any one time.
So I'm sure that will all be taken care of and made whole before we hit the highway. Like all these things... one small step at a time.
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