[Zedbra]

Started stripping my bike apart at the end of November with a long list of maintenance items I wanted to attack. First on my list was to rebuild my front end as the old springs were sacked and the lowers were looking a little haggard. After stripping the forks apart, I hand sanded, then polished the lowers, and afterwards I had them Cerakoted with their new polished aluminium coating; I have had a lot of my guns coated with Cerakote and I know how much abuse it can take, so I am looking forward to seeing how it works on my fork lowers. Starting this morning, I reassembled my lowers with new bushings, guides, seals, and Progressive HD springs (full disclaimer - my local one-man Indy shop helped with the fork tube assembly as it is really a three hand job without jigs); by this afternoon it was all back together. I wasn't even done my second beer after all that work getting here; that's just the way it is.

Tearing the rear swing arm off next to replace bearings and bushings.