Reply To: Adventures With Rosie

[ZiggerZag]

It’s been quite an exciting week for Rosie.  On Wednesday we rode down to the office in Northampton, okay it was only about 90 miles round trip, but that’s further than she’s gone in some years.  However, today she was reunited with some upper fork covers having had the replacement headlamp restored to ‘original’ (actually it’s from a GV125 but identical parts) so I could get rid of those awful brackets and the black plastic headlamp.  See pic above for the old Rosie.

While not exactly a very big job it’s not a single handed job to drop out the forks, and persuade the rubber seals to stay in place while the fork is reinserted to the top yoke.  Even with the benefit of a YouTube How-To video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZJn4kXlrdc.    My thanks go to Geoff, the chief spanners wrangler at Fosse Riders MCA, and his mate (sorry, I didn’t quite catch the name).  I’m pretty sure if I had attempted this on my own then tonight Rosie would still be in pieces on the garage floor.  Again I would recommend that joining a local motorcycling club pays dividends in finding contact with people who can help with jobs like this one, as well as being a source of encouragement and advice.

Just reviewed the video and I note that Zorba’s only did the offside cover – to do the nearside/disc brake side it was necessary to take the caliper off the fork leg to allow it to drop down the 8-9″ necessary to fit the cover in place.  Altogether this took about an hour to do, but that was with quite an extensive workshop at the Fosse Riders MCA.

So here she is now, nicely blinged-up with shiny air filter covers, an Hyosung original headlamp, and complete fork covers in place.  Ready for a summer of riding with hopefully a lot more sunny weather just like we had today.

Whether the windscreen will go back on is debatable.  I think Rosie looks better without it and I don’t mind a bit of wind in my face.

Meanwhile, I’m considering getting one of those 360 degree video cameras.  Watch this space.

All the best
Zigger Zag