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The bike and the back story.

As is briefly explained elsewhere on this site Bikerbabes Dragstar 125 ended up a category C (uneconomical to repair). As well as all the sh1t that comes in the aftermath of an RTC it meant that...

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The first bit.

The fuel pump. After spending what seemed like forever pulling apart old bike, I had reached that point where it seemed like every piece opened or removed just served to give me even more of an insight...

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VT700c thermostat probe tested.

With a very similar approach to the gamma probe test, I checked out both the temperature probe (temperature sensor) that came with the bike and a probe (sensor) that came with some parts I bought...

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Coolant reserve tank cleaning.

This isn’t a long post, nor do I have enough good pictures to show/prove how effective a cleaning trick this is (apologies for that) but I still think it’s worth a mention because I was so very...

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The Shadows frame and assorted ironmongery

As I mentioned before and will probably mention again the Shadow was in a right old state for a still running bike. All of the painted parts where showing I suppose what would be an expected level of...

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Cleaning up the engine casings. Part 1

    Part 1. The left hand side casing.     So, given that Bikerbabe had requested the Shadow be made black as much as possible, I had allowed that the now just barely silver/grey engine side casings...

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The Shadows frame and assorted ironmongery part 2

Just in case you had forgotten from this post, the swingarm for the Shadow had not done well in the initial coating process. In fact it had shown how little metal was left in the bottom of the cross...

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Hunting down and fitting rear fender “b”

To be quite honest I didn’t realise when I got the bike that there was a rear fender “b” to be missing. Fender “b” it turns out is a plastic piece of the rear fender (the main more visible part of the...

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Stock exhaust has got to go..

Loud pipes save lives after all.   I am, as it happens a believer in the mantra that loud pipes save lives. But that aside, I had no real choice when it came to the exhaust system on the shadow....

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The Shadows main petrol tank recovered..part 1.

When the shadow arrived I knew I had some work ahead with the petrol tank. No surprise there says you, but aside from having to re coat the thing I had to look at the dodgy looking growth on the left...

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