Did a few odds and ends on the CBR today. First thing I did was put back the front wheel to lower the bike. Then I removed the front intake assembly. The agenda was to gut the insides of the air intake. I didn’t take a picture of the before, but Honda included a bunch […]

I continued progress on the CBR today, going through a few tasks. I’m purposely going slow with all this, not only to be meticulous, but also because I’m still waiting on some key parts… I received the body fairings last week, but I got sent the wrong stuff: ’09 upper and lowers instead of ’07-’08, […]

Next up, it was time to get a bit more dug in. I decided to tackle the PAIR system removal. What is the PAIR system? Honda CBR’s have this valve that opens at a certain RPM and injects the exhaust port with atmospheric air. This essentially masks the real emissions coming out of the exhaust, […]

When I returned home from Virginia, I was greeted with a nice box from SuperBikeSupply… and its contents inside: There’s still a handful of stuff I have not received yet, but this will keep me busy for a while. I decided to get the tire situation taken care of first, which meant taking off both […]

I’ve been eagerly waiting this moment. Today, I got to do some wrench turning again in the garage. It was almost therapeutic because thankfully nothing went wrong. Here is my bike. Here is my bike after only an hour’s worth of work. Abdicating the nonessentials. I posted those parts up yesterday on a local Motorcycle […]

I’ve been searching feverishly for a while now for a suitable middle-weight bike, and especially so since I sold the Ducati. A lot of searches yielded results that were either sold already, or too high in price. I think I was too tight with my budget because I wanted a deal. I’ve been looking for […]