CBRh :: forward progress

Yesterday, Phong and AR stopped by the Future. Phong worked on the paddle rack a little bit, and Aileen worked on her english paper. I did some work on the CBR Hurricane.

One of the main problems I've encountered with this bike is making it look good while still turning a profit when I sell it. It has to be both marketable and inexpensive. Things that I wouldn't care about much on my own bike (ie working gauges and warning lights) are pretty much essential for a good sale. Thus, I had to scrap the idea of the 7" headlight, because the giant gauge cluster looked terrible mounted behind the little headlamp. I decided that I would go with a trimmed fairing stay and keep the square headlight.





I began by mounting up the bar-end mirror so I could cut off the mirror mount portion on the stay. This was a total bitch because I couldn't back the screw out without the bar-end weight rotating in the bar. Thus, I had to drill a hole in it and install a temporary pin:





Then I marked and trimmed the fairing stay with an angle grinder:





GTG, more later.