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I put up a sensor light inside the garage. Aside from lighting up the bikes it'll help when I have my hands full of stuff for the freezer so I don't have to struggle putting the light on as the switch is in an awkward place.

However Stuart was a bit surprised when he went to get a sneaky IPA out of the beer fridge last night and found himself lit up like he was attempting a prison break out. I forgot to tell him about it.

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Installed security cameras to garage and garden "office/room/bar" AKA the love shack.

So nice photos sent to my phones whenever movement on the drive/back of house detected.

But watching the alert vids is disturbing as 3 so far have included the dog laying an egg on the lawn.

I still need to tune the movement detection as yesterdays rain resulted in over 100 alerts.

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Winter service for the VFR. Have you ever seen so much crap under a fairing? 😄
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That's a bit harsh, I think Honda make great engines LOL

My bro has a VFR 750 and he loves it, mind you the acceleration of my AL7 surprised him a bit, even though he has another 25 ponies they don't kick in till higher up.

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It is a great engine. It's like a turbine until the VTEC kicks in and then it howls like a banshee.

The side rads make it look cumbersome, but i guess after an SV everything looks complicated.

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I'm finding out very quickly just how true this is.Suzuki have done a fantastic job IMHO.My SV has been a joy to work on so far :)

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Well there's plenty of people to ask on this site if you get stuck.

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Even more if you ride a Triumph :p

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Whilst the fairing is off i thought I'd try the Harpic trick on the exhaust headers. I was very impressed. The years of rusty oxidisation just fell off. The pipes are now a nice dull steel colour. A bit of polishing and they'll look like new. I wish I'd known about this when i had my SV's, i could have saved myself hours of slaving with solvo autosol.

the headers were far more corroded than i ever let my SV get due to them being hidden behind the fairing.

There are few versions of Harpic, i bought the power max version in there black bottle.

I'll continue the cleaning on the rear headers and cat enclosure once i get the bike into the drive.

This is just after a few minutes. Compare to the shot previous in this thread.

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The bike is now back on the road and took it for a test ride yesterday. There's always something you miss whilst working on a machine. In this case i noticed that a mudflap in front of the rear wheel was only hanging on by one rivet out of three. I could have just pulled it off but it does keep crap off the rear shock. I managed to pull out the remains of the old rivets and applied new ones with my bargain Aldi pop riveter.

Some new rubber well nuts also turned up in the post. I have four of these on the front fairing filler piece, and they were starting to fall apart. Cheap enough off eBay.