And so it begins

Wheeled the bike out of Jerry's garage. Looks pretty good, except for the broken shifter and front left turn signal. It's pretty clean-one of my to-do items was to clean up the engine, looks like I'll get to do that mostly with compressed air and a duster, rather than with rags and engine cleaner.

Filled up the flat tires (or tyres, as all of the Brit manuals say,) to about 35 psi, even though they wanted more. Interesting that these are tubeless spoked tires, I'm wondering how well they keep their seals around the spokes.

Dumped the old oil and filter. Didn't realize at the time that the threaded stem part removes from the filter cover. The filter comes with two o-rings, a big one, and a small one. The small one goes between the stem and the cover. The big one goes on the cover. The big o-ring that came with the filter (a KN-192, I believe,) did not fit the cover. Luckily, the old one is in prime condition, I'm assuming the smaller is as well, but I'll have to check both in the future.

Removed the seat and gas tank. The seat is a bitch-and-a-half to remove, since the bolts are kinda underneath it, and between the seat and the tailight. There's a company that sells bolts that stick out past the back of the seat. I'm going to get some of these: http://www.newbonneville.com/html/tool_free_seat_bolts.html

Got a new battery, unfortunately not sealed, so I had to pour in the acid, and then charge the battery. Never got to installing it, as the charge time was past the time I wanted to leave.

Emptying the gas from the tanks was a huge PITA. Next time, I'll siphon all that I can out, and then tape something on the tank to keep gas from getting on it. I did wash the tank off afterword, hopefully this will prevent too much damage to the paint.

Noticed that the coolant was empty-need to flush and replace before cranking.

One of the bolts holding on the sissy bar is stripped. Takes some skill to stip an allen bolt.

Todo Next trip:
Identify front left turn signal bracket.
Flush/replace coolant.
Dispose this and last week's chemicals.
seafoam!
replace fuel hose
try to diagnose coil (Replace with nology PFC-06TS if bad http://www.nology.com/profire.php)
check plugs/oil inside engine
get engine number and vin

Todo:
Oil chain
lube frame
replace clutch fluid
replace brake fluid
replace suspension oil
fix shifter shaft