Disassembly

One of my favorite activities as a young boy was to take things apart and to put them back together again. Worked great with LEGO, not so good with alarm clocks and worms. This week, it continues anew with my motorcycle. My list of things to do include replacing the instrument cluster and replacing the handlebar. The easy part was removing the fairing, which took me all of 2 hours to do. Unfortunately, the screw holding the bar end on the handlebar is totally stripped down, so there will be much drilling and gnashing of teeth to come later this week. I've already committed about 3 hours this past weekend installing new lights - incidentally, I spent a lot of time splicing wires together, only to find out this evening I had to cut them apart to get the fairing off. :(

There is no interesting personal anecdote here this, I just had to vent how I need to spend another fricking 2+ hours to drill the bar end off. Could be worse though, grinding my fenders on my car to make my aftermarket xenon headlamps fit took well over 10 hours total.