{"id":2509,"date":"2011-08-07T19:39:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T02:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2012-06-03T20:21:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T03:21:29","slug":"the-darkside-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2011\/08\/the-darkside-is-better\/","title":{"rendered":"The Darkside is Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hammered out the remaining tasks today and finally got the bike rolling. After piecing together all the fairings and bodywork, I can really appreciate the amount of detail Honda put into these things. There are so many intricate pieces and snap-on points.<\/p>\n

I undertook cutting new holes for the Woodcraft frame sliders in the morning. I dreaded doing this the entire time, hence saving it for the last day… I did the whole laser pointer deal and made a pair of 2″ holes in the lower fairings. Unfortunately, these holes ended up being off. In other words, I basically just ruined perfectly good fairings. The surface wasn’t flat, otherwise it would’ve been easy… instead the holes needed to be cut where the fairings have angles and bends. <\/p>\n

To remedy my situation, I went out and bought another full set of Black fairings. Just like that. It only took a couple phone calls and a meetup at a local Walmart, and I got what I needed. I love it when things are easy. <\/p>\n

I decided to omit the Woodcraft frame sliders for the time being, until I figure something else out later. I won’t be cutting any more holes, that’s for sure. Alas, a few more hours later, I was done with the bike’s transformation. <\/p>\n

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Black is the predominant flavor of the stable.<\/p>\n

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I also picked up the Gilles GP style lifter kit. <\/p>\n

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Instead of basking in my glory by staring at the bike, I instead hopped on and went for a ride. Happy to conclude the bike works as it should. It was an interesting experience not only being back on a bike, but back on the roads. I’m definitely one of those cases of a baby that learned how to run before learning how to walk. Time to stockpile earplugs as well, because my helmet is unbearably loud past 30mph. <\/p>\n

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With the bike situated, I have no excuse for not riding anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hammered out the remaining tasks today and finally got the bike rolling. After piecing together all the fairings and bodywork, I can really appreciate the amount of detail Honda put into these things. There are so many intricate pieces and snap-on points. I undertook cutting new holes for the Woodcraft frame sliders in the morning. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}