Tear down of my bike for powdercoating

So i am getting a few bits powder coated on my K3 so thought i would post a few pics.

Make shift garage in my garden


Close up


More to come this afternoon.

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Good luck with the refurb. Wouldn't fancy doing it under a gazebo. It was hard enough to work in a nice "dry" garage.

[Jayneflakes]

Originally Posted by srobrien

Good luck with the refurb. Wouldn't fancy doing it under a gazebo. It was hard enough to work in a nice "dry" garage.

A good friend and I built a CB750 Streetfighter in the kitchen when we were students. That upset the other residents in the house!

So wish I could bring my bike into the flat to do jobs like this, imagine how nice it would be to strip and rebuild the bike in the warm and dry next to the HiFi? Oh well, stuck in the cold garage for now.

Good luck with the rebuild

itd just be nice to strip and rebuild a bike when you can kneel down on carpet! or sitting on the sofa while trying to undo a tricky bolt.

id never get the bike between the oven and the cupboard in the kitchen though...........
might remodel the kitchen soon

Yeah using the gazebo and a cold hard floor is not ideal but its the best I have unfortunately. When I move I will def be getting a house with a garage!

Here are some more pics:

Nightime working with my little helpers:



Tea station and entertainment area:



Rusty linkage bolt that took me half an hour to remove:



The rusty dogbones and shock linkage where the above bolt came from:



Time to celebrate the removal of said bolt with a beer! So glad I didn't strip the bolt!



Think I need a new linkage. Luckily I have a nice shiny one that came off my race bike!



I know which one I would prefer going into the bike on the re-build!



Its a bit a of a wirey mess at the back:



I think there is something missing at the back end!



So overall I didn't get done as much I would have liked yesterday but I was out most of the afternoon and with most of the bolts rusted to buggery everything takes twice as long. I also had a bit of a nightmare as my front paddock stand (one that goes into the yokes) collapsed and then I realised that my Abba stand was located on the swingarm pivots and I had to move it to locate onto the footpegs as I a removing the swingarm. Unfortunately I only realised this after taking the shock out and so I had to re-fit it so I could move the Abba Stand. Nightmare!

[Geodude]

Haha your garage is the hi-tech version of mine



and you have entertainment and helpers i just got a cold wet backside

Damn! wish I had a cocktail umbrella to go even less high tech

[Geodude]

Haha hol, you may notice my hi-tech cling 'electric protection' film to keep out the rain too

Is that what that is? nice work, you should rebrand some cling film & double the price

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

A good friend and I built a CB750 Streetfighter in the kitchen when we were students. That upset the other residents in the house!

So wish I could bring my bike into the flat to do jobs like this, imagine how nice it would be to strip and rebuild the bike in the warm and dry next to the HiFi? Oh well, stuck in the cold garage for now.

Good luck with the rebuild

Ex fella used to rebuild his RDs in his living room, had a spare in the hall and used the frame of another as a clothes horse in his bedroom. Plenty of music to your ears on shelves in the living room, a collection the size of a small shop! Few beers, door open, fag in gob on a summers afternoon!

Landlady got rather annoyed at finding the Raptor in her living room (he lived in a granny annex on the side of her house) and the dishwasher filled with bike parts, after her annual trip to Italy