Mac sent a load of scabby bits from the Yamaharley project off to the blasters to clean and paint in satin black.

Included in the pile were the fake air scoops off the ‘runaround’ which had an unfortunate liaison with a dripping master cylinder.

Mac  uses BBC (Banbury Blast Cleaning) on the Welsh lane near Helmdon, great bunch of blokes (when you get a word in amongst their p#ss taking) who do a tidy job and don’t take the mickey when it comes to the bill.

Time to get the spanners out – then once the front end is assembled it’s off to Heisenburgs shed to marry it up with the frame to get the geometry right.

Heisenburgs been a bit poorly of late – put his back out unloading a trailer  -although rumours are  that he was actually  lifting a particularly substantial pie . He’s been to see the witch doctor and is getting better – the poor thing!!

Front end nearly assembled – no point  in tightening anything up yet as the yolks will need modding to fit the Harley neck. Discs and lines are next  on the to do list (as they’re so expensive) cause the old ones are knackered.

May look to buck the trend and fit these ‘street fighter’ headlights.

Will cover the upper fork legs with a tube which the headlight mounts will get welded to and utilise the indicators as mounting bolts.  This Bike will have to start life with all the bells and whistles as in all probability it’ll have to go through the whole SVA process as the previous owner of the frame kept the frame number and V5.