I am storing the biggest parts that are new or has been finished on the overhead shelf in my garage.

Drove to Brønnøysund today for a job interview, witch went very well I think. After the interview we drove north to a place called Vevelstad to visit an old friend. It turned out that her boyfriend had a similar love for SUZUKI’s and he showed me a Norwegian brochure of SUZUKI bikes from 1983. And [...]

This padding is made of plastic. It is kind of like the old Tupperware plastic where the plastic was pealing of in flakes. Will check to see if this can be refurbished. If not, buy a new one.

Replaced the sand in the sand blasting cabinet today. This time I filled it with glass sand, that is small glass pellets. For blasting aluminium, sand would dig pits in the soft metal, glass however is said not to. In the picture you see my brother blowing the last bits of sand out of the [...]

Drove up to Fauske to get the frame that had been powder coated at IL-AS. A quick cuality check revealed only one flaw in the paint and one error they made when masking the frame. The flaw is that some fluid has been left on the frame before covering it with powder, causing a small [...]

Today I delivered the tank, front fender, side covers and the rear cover to paint. This was too important to get right for me to do it myself.

Today I started polishing the front forks and as you can see, they are getting much shinier.

Draining the oil from this thing is much easier when mounted on the bike, too late now. Luckily for me my oil draining plastic box was very suitable for this. I just pushed the rear axle back into the gear and hung it in the box as in the picture.

Found this on the internet, that’s where I find most of my information about stuff. You can clean off rust and dirt with electrolysis. And it’s magic, I am testing on some bolts I have had lying around, and so far I’m impressed. The springs that secure the oil gaskets on the front dampers was [...]

I am having trouble getting the decals for my GS1100G. I have sent some request to some shops that make vintage decals. No answer so far. I have been at several paint shops for a cost estimate on the job with painting the parts with decals. One local paint shop would use one red and [...]