That is my new using buddy and life coach, Alt Highway Overshort:

[From MAAP, I guess…?]

You possibly can inform that he has an interior energy, and I do all the things he says. However we don’t have time for him proper now. Nor do we now have time to handle the assorted explanation why this man may be placing sand down the again of his personal shirt:

Why? As a result of once I begin one thing I end it–rapidly, and in a half-assed means. And as you already know I not too long ago began overhauling the ‘Noner. Right here’s the way it seemed once I returned to it in the present day:

Tearing the previous crap off a motorcycle can really feel onerous and demoralizing, however from right here it was all placing new stuff on, and so I used to be crammed with optimism–however not sufficient to strip the bars of their previous residue. See, this isn’t that form of restoration, and I’m not that form of individual:

Additionally notice I went for behind-the-bar shifter cable routing, which I already surprise if I could remorse.

However at the least I took the time to file and poke the cable housing ends:

And all the things seemed fairly tidy once I was accomplished:

I’d give myself at the least a B- in cable administration.

Then I put in the brand new chain, and earlier than slicing the cable ends examined to see if all the things labored:

Every little thing appeared to work:

Between my very own ineptitude and the situation of the tools once I acquired the bike, this appeared nothing wanting miraculous:

After I’d made the standard changes and was glad I’d be capable of shift, I trimmed the cables, and eventually I wrapped the bars, which after a full overhaul (or at the least the half-assed course of i contemplate a full overhaul) usually appears like bandaging a affected person:

With the cables lower and crimped, the bars wrapped, the shifters re-hooded, and all fasteners checked, it was time to journey it up and down the road to see if it might collapse:

It didn’t collapse.

Off to take it for an precise journey now. In case you don’t hear from me in every week ship assist.