No Metronome...

Did i ever mention that i can keep rhythm with no metronome? So...on the way to the cottage to pick up a toolbox, i stopped by the motorcycle store. Walked around a bit and then finally asked if my grips were in. They were! Lame that they didn't call me, they said they would tell me when the grips arrived.

After dinner i went into the garage to attempt to put them on. i had feeling it was going to take longer than i expected.The first step was to crack open the control box on the right side. Seemed easy enough, just required a phillips screw driver to remove two screws.

Once the control box was opened, i removed the cables from the throttle sleeve and slid it out. Once that was done, i slid the new grip with new throttle sleeve attached onto the handle bar and hooked it up to the cables. All that was left was to screw the control box together.Looks pretty sexy, much better than the lame grip i bought in Canada. Canada is so lame, they can't even give me a decent grip for my bike...
Now it was time for the left handlebar. It was a little bit trickier. i had to unscrew the end cap, wedge a screw driver underneath the grip to release it from the glue...then twist it off. The next step was to get some sand paper to get rid of any remaining glue. Of course i didn't have any sand paper so i took a short trip to Sears. Came back, sanded...cut a spacer to size...applied glue...slid grip on....and done!While waiting for the glue to dry i went back over to the throttle grip and decided to put on the throttle boss. That was pretty easy, just an allen wrench was needed to take the end cap off and tighten everything together. Now i'm good to go for longer rides.Now i have some chrome on my handlebars. They also match my highway pegs! Now if could only find a nut to replace the one i lost on the exhaust...oh well, i guess that could wait.