Riding KLR and R11S, Fixing SV!

April 26th in New England, and three of my four road-legal motorcycles are on the road! The KLR and R11S even have their current inspection stickers. The VFR is still mothballed; that'll come out this week. The SV is down for a whole mess of maintenance: started with a carburettor root and rebuild (we found a jet kit in there! who knew!), moved to "fix the leaky fork" -- I swear that fork wasn't leaking when I parked it for the carb work. She just got all +OMG ATTENTION HERE FIX THIS TOO.+ So, fork rebuild will involve installation of new springs and cartridge emulators while we're in there replacing seals and fork oil. And when I say "we" I mean my dear friend Will, who has a garage, and all kinds of know-how and a ton and a half of tools and lots of experience rebuilding carburettors and forks. Also a garage where he doesn't mind that bike being parked for a couple of weeks. Next on the list for the SV is a new exhaust system; I didn't go out looking for one, but since a growly aftermarket exhaust pretty much fell into my lap, well, yeah I'm going to install it. This will involve a torch for the rusty header bolts. Fun! The KZ is > < this close to being so very ready for the road; what with all the Boston Marathon mess last week I didn't get into Lowell to work on her; that'll have to happen Monday night or so. Right on the brink of having all her paperwork and all her mechanicals totally straightened out and ready to move on to her next owner, and be loved and ridden!