Over this week, I got a couple of goodies in the mail! First with the bad. I received one of my OEM pistons from an eBay purchase, but they sent me the wrong size piston in the correct box. I'm still dealing with the clunky return on this item. I won't feel settled until I get all my money back- shipping both ways and the cost of the part.
Now for the good stuff! The piston rings arrived from Germany, I got Taylor 8mm spark plug wires, a new (not OEM) condenser and stainless steel bolts for the engine case cover- all were good. But the best things that came in the mail were the Ikon shocks! These things are beauties! I can't wait to get them on the frame!
I've also been shopping like crazy for a decent set of rearsets for the bike- easier said than done. Basically there are two different design approaches for drum brakes- 1) You can keep the stock system or 2) you can covert to a cleaner cable activated system, that way you can rid yourself of that ugly heavy passenger peg bracket. For option 1, there's Tarozzi for about $370, an old pair of Raask rearsets if you can get Gary from Spec II to call you back, or a used set of MotoCarrera rearsets if you can find some. For option 2, there's Slipstream (Jim will never call you back) or there's Vintage Smoke and you might as well sell a kidney for that system. Or...you can design your own. There are many good peg and lever manufacturers out there, but they don't make mounting plates.
I think I'm going to make my own mounting plates. I can buy some aluminum from eBay for about $20, then grind them down to my configurations and mount whatever I want on them. In the end, it's going to cost about $350, but I can do a cable pull and it will look (and function) more elegantly than the stock system.
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