Ok, so. I FINALLY got my hands on my bike. She's a '09 Kawasaki Ninja 250. A salvage job, but I'm enjoying working on her. Yes,that's right. I'M working on her.
Dummy tells me what to do, and I do it. He get's yelled at if he even comes near it with a tool in his hand. The previous owner bought it new, rode it for 95 miles, then let his buddy have a go on her. Yea...his buddy crashed within a mile.
I'm going to have to rebuild the entire front end. New forks, new plastics, new instrument cluster, entirely new exhaust system etc etc etc. These are the forks I pulled off her:
Yeahhhh....Those are sposta be straight.
I'm having great fun, getting greasy and dirty.
This is her after an entire day of me tearing down.
I decided to wait on giving her a name, till she's reborn into the bad ass lil machine I know she'll be. But in the meantime, I've been calling her Toy. (I hope MastersToy don't take offense =P)