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The parts are in and the reassembly has begun.

Yamaha declares that their vibration tuning is key to the smoothness, integrity and character of their bikes so I did a U-turn on massively modifying the front end and instead am rebuilding with new parts wherever the previous parts were broken, damaged or just worn out.

It’s amazing how many individual parts go into this Lego-like front end. I’ll do a parts count up in the end maybe.

Notice the crack in the top left of the lense? It was barely noticeable after the crash but has since, with the cold maybe and some prodding and squeezing, grown into a serious crack. Incidentally, you can’t buy the light by itself. It comes as part of a pre-assembled set, already mounted on the headlight stay like below for around 100,000 yennies. Ouch!

Anyway, it’s coming together and a handy thing is that the whole front end is a single unit that bolts ap to the headstock with just four bolts. That means I can build it up in the comfort of my study with the heater on in my pajamas. 😄

To be honest, this should’ve been done a long time ago but I’ve been distracted by another set of wheels with a lot of nostalgia and deep feelings attached that’s found its way to me…more on that some other time maybe…