Winter time means upgrade time. Here are a few [mostly] aesthetic goodies I have on order:
CF clip ons with secret mounting solution

Samco hoses

CF preload adjusters

and I'm still shopping for a CF...

A few summer updates:
A friend of mine who races in the WERA series and is sponsored by racetech offered to have my forks and shock revalved/rebuilt/tweaked for free. The difference is very pleasing. The spring they included with the rear shock was purple and a pain to repaint a more sensible silver. Its rate is also based on a 550lb wet 12r, so I had to do a little preload tuning. In the words of Ferris Bueller "It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking...

I've been working on having my gauge cluster rewired with LEDs and getting a set of custom gauge faces. I don't care too much for any of illumiglo's offerings so I'm going with these:

The tic marks will be chrome and everything will be backlit by blue LEDs.

All done for now!
It's been a long winter of trolling ebay, translating Japanese, waiting for the UPS/FedEx/USPS/EMS/DHL man to arrive with my goodies, and lots of tinkering. Here's what came of it all:



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I calibrated the speedo today with my yellow box and finished off the install of the CF inners. It took some tinkering to get everything just right. I also used the PC3R to advance the timing 4 degrees higher in the rev range.

It still needs a bath before I can take any sweet shots. I took it out for a short ride this afternoon and I am very impressed with the new levers. They're extremely comfortable simply...