When the shadow arrived I knew I had some work ahead with the petrol tank. No surprise there says you, but aside from having to re coat the thing I had to look at the dodgy looking growth on the left hand side. And also […]
Feb 132021
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Honda motorbike projects
Dec 222016
Loud pipes save lives after all. I am, as it happens a believer in the mantra that loud pipes save lives. But that aside, I had no real choice when it came to the exhaust system on the shadow. The stock exhaust […]
Jul 082016
To be quite honest I didn’t realise when I got the bike that there was a rear fender “b” to be missing. Fender “b” it turns out is a plastic piece of the rear fender (the main more visible part of the rear fender being […]
Jun 212016
In this the first post of it’s kind for the Shadow I am just going to draw your attention to what would have been a small detail when I was fitting the coolant reserve tank to the frame but because I didn’t have the foresight […]
May 192016
Just in case you had forgotten from this post, the swingarm for the Shadow had not done well in the initial coating process. In fact it had shown how little metal was left in the bottom of the cross member when it was subjected to […]
Feb 022015
Part 1. The left hand side casing. So, given that Bikerbabe had requested the Shadow be made black as much as possible, I had allowed that the now just barely silver/grey engine side casings would have to be removed and powder […]
Oct 242014
As I mentioned before and will probably mention again, the Shadow was in a right old state for a still running bike. All of the painted parts where showing I suppose what would be an expected level of wear and tear for a bike it’s […]
Oct 172014
This isn’t a long post, nor do I have enough good pictures to show/prove how effective a cleaning trick this is (apologies for that) but I still think it’s worth a mention because I was so very impressed with how simple and effective it is […]
Oct 102014
With a very similar approach to the gamma probe test, I checked out both the temperature probe (temperature sensor) that came with the bike and a probe (sensor) that came with some parts I bought second hand. I’m not going to repeat an explanation of […]
Oct 032014
The fuel pump. After spending what seemed like forever pulling apart old bike, I had reached that point where it seemed like every piece opened or removed just served to give me even more of an insight into just how unexpectedly bad it all was. […]