Re-baking my ST1300 (Almost-full-redoing)

[SMSW]

You are correcting and R & R-ing (remove and restoring) a lot of what I would call neglect and abuse on a motorcycle. Routine maintenance would have kept the bike in good riding condition and things like the brakes and clutch would never have deteriorated to the condition you are seeing. I'd be willing to bet none of your bikes would ever reach the condition this bike was in when you bought it.

 

[leondante]

You are correcting and R & R-ing (remove and restoring) a lot of what I would call neglect and abuse on a motorcycle. Routine maintenance would have kept the bike in good riding condition and things like the brakes and clutch would never have deteriorated to the condition you are seeing. I'd be willing to bet none of your bikes would ever reach the condition this bike was in when you bought it.

My world is what surrounds me, people and objects. Being spiritual is good, but even a nice forest needs care and not littering, in spite of being something that could bring you a "spiritual" experience. I'm creating MY nice world around me when I take care of everything around me. The Universe will be as I do, mine at least (most of the time, bad luck is there everyday too).

There's something out there I baptized as "The Law of Chaos". It's not the mathematic theory of chaos. What I mean with this is there is this factor in the universe and its laws imposing that everything will cost you double the effort most of the time. I'm really prepared to FAIL GREATLY ALL THE TIME. I know about this chaotic law that's out there getting horny with the idea of a thread going mangled, a hose breaking out, my dog eating my special-sized o-rings, myself losing some special, unique screw that costs 70€, whatever that thing can get to make my life worse. And having that in mind is basic not to go really deep into the apathy abyss.

So, I work at least double to get things nice, and that makes my life itself a nice place.

And that's why I like to work my stuff like this, it makes my life nicer and easier, even costing two or three times the expected effort.

 

[WNCST1300]

NEXT STUFF, the wheels.

The dude painted them wheels with spray black paint. A pretty bad neighbourhood paint. My very friend of a substance that acetone is did the trick. So I was able to take out some neurons of mine and the paint too, sniffing some acetone for a while. First I washed them with that pink alcaline workshop floor degreaser I told before (which is impressive to take out the weird brown grease that the rubber of the tires sweat, making them full black again). Then I cleaned them with acetone and paper towels.














I was so excited about the results that I forgot to take pictures of the front wheel cleaned from the paint.

I used a chinese cheap paint pencil for the letters. It's some specific oil based paint for tires, so I hope it last some good time there. Anyways looks great and rebranding them again wouldn't be anything but easy and kinda fast. And it can be cleaned with (of course) gasoline if something turns bad.

FFW the final result. Also, new special bearings and seals for my nice wheels. I plan to paint all the bike later but not for now.













Slow and steady my body is getting ready to test this massive piece of art, but my hair is getting gray doing all of this job. I just want to use it before retirement.



Cooler stuff is coming. I'm saving the brakes and wiring for special and specific posts, as they were the most worky stuff here. And I did not properly the wiring stuff yet on the bike (alarm, GPS tracker, etc).

Thanks for sharing. I’ve been wondering what my ST looks like naked.