The first rule of salvaging is this: make sure the parts you’re getting actually fit your needs!
The saga of the bike is still ongoing. I should add some pictures of the welding job.
It was done at one of those chopper harley custom motorcycle places. I was half curious to go down there myself, but due to the fact that I take the Siberia Express with Dr Zhivago every morning, I asked Dad-in-law help me out (thanks Granddad!). I thought they did a pretty good job considering.. the only problem being they singed the stickers so now it all looks a bit funny, and definitely no longer worth much. Except to me. This bike and I are now bonded now, like that girl from the truly awful James Bond thriller The World is Not Enough was bonded to the baddie played by the always entertaining Robert Carlyle.
The guy who salvaged and sold me the Fox RP2 rear shock? He must have used the wrong measurements, cause I picked it up, held it against my own shock, and it looked about right. Little did I know it was a full 10mm different, and therefore completely unusable to me! On a slightly positive note, however, i can sell this one on, and purchase the right size. I don’t know if I’m going to get as good a price for the next one, but at least I should get a decent price for this one.
Right now I’m watching this one on eBay. Please don’t bid against me.
In other news I bought some budgie smugglers today.


I was reading about e-waste, which is the all the computer and electronic equipment that gets discarded after an upgrade, and it made me curious, because it’s a problem that needs to be addressed more effectively, since e-waste will only increase as time goes on. I spent a little time reading up on it.
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