Sprucing up the old FZ1

[noggythenog]

I have had the biggest ballache going today. Spent a long time just trying to feed the new throttle cables through the space behind the radiator, blind as usual of course. Then it was time to get the cables onto the throttle body pulley.


A whole day later, sore fingers, a walk on the beach with the dog to stop me pouring petrol over the bike & sparking it up & i think i've got somewhere. Im not sure though, i cant quite believe that it is done but i wanted to come inside for the night with positive feelings.


The top cable was ok to do....ish....still lots of bending the cable end round on itself to slip into the nick before going into the hole, still finger achingly fiddly.


The bottom one is a device straight from satans arse hole. 100 times i must have tried it, honestly my finger tips are stinging just typing on my ipad. Say one thing about me say im bloody stubborn & i honestly dont know how i managed it in the end (thats why i cant quite believe i have done it).


The pics show how tight it is, you cant really move your hand due to the frame crossmember above it. You extend the wire as much as poss & then basically fumble in the dark like some kind of evil fairground prize game. The end went in the hole loads of times but wasnt inside the nick which incidentally you couldnt actually see either so as soon as you moved it would jump out of the hole again. The space also isnt big enough to get a finger down inside so you cant really just push it in from behind.


Evil evil evil evil evil




Next to do is connect up throttle grip side & then learn how to adjust the cables, only then will i believe.