Today has sorta been teh suck, but for every sucky thing that's happened, Paulages had an answer, so it's not all bad.
The seat that came in is beautiful. Unfortunately, in Taiwan, apparently their goddamn CL seats are the same as their CB seats. Here in the States, though, my cafe seat underwent some shrinkage and doesn't come close to touching the tank like it should. The bracketing is wrong, too, and it won't even bolt up right.
For $200 I would have expected a
little better. That's what I get for not going local, I guess.
Paul said there was a cb tank sitting around that was in good shape on the inside, with just a good ding/dent on the side. It was pretty affordable (no, I won't tell), so it'll get the same masking job the CL tank got, and if I'm visualizing it right, might look even better than the CL tank does... oh and the damn seat will work. This is how I hope the CB tank turns out... (photoshopped guess...)
on this bike:
heres a really bad mockup just because I don't have a CB tank of the same type at the same angle... but think of the lines on the CB tank and the 350 on the side...
The DMV laughed in my face when I came in without a title. They said I could get a 21 day trip tag, which will allow me to at least ride the little bastard around and get the feel for it.
The question was- do I go to the PO who didn't (and may never) have the title, or the PPO, who was the original owner as well? Well, the PO is in another state, too yet.
SO.
While I was dicking around with the seats, I opened up the doc compartment and (!) the old registration from 1989 was still there. Paul and I conferred on this and I'm going to head to the DMV again with that registration in hand, so they can contact the PO and get the titling service rolling.
so yeah. victories and defeats. Lola pissed all over Paul's lift overnight, and that's pretty much my day.
