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I also have noticed less posts! I try to get out and ride as much as I can! Phantom keeps worrying when I do because of all the bike riders crashing and dyeing around the area we live!. Not many details on most,cagers mostly(probably turning in front of or sideswiping as not paying attention) She does know I drive as best as I can and also doesn't trust others( I also don't trust others so ALWAYS keeping alert to what is going around me!!!!)

We finally got around to ordering a carb synchronizing tool and got the carbs all tuned up and the oil & oil filter changed. She's running really smooth now and accelerates like a bat out of hell. Ran into another weird problem - the temperature gauges starts dropping to zero once we accelerate over 90mph (indicated - so ~75mph actual). Might just be a loose connector or something but it's odd how consistent it is. As soon as we slow down below that threshold it immediately start working correctly again. We're gonna try and hook up the anti-dive units this week; gonna guess it doesn't have progressive springs based on how severely it's diving on the front brakes. Might try and change the shock oil while we're at it - we did check the steering and wheel bearings while we had it on the center stand but there's no play there. After that we're just going to try and work our way through all the scheduled maintenance stuff so we can get a good baseline to go off of in the future. Test painted one of the fairing bits that's not currently on the bike! Primer, four coats of gloss candy pink, wet sanding down to 1000 grit, and three layers of matte clear coat makes for a very lovely satin pink finish 😁 There's several spots on the fairing where mounting tabs are snapped off and long gone. The plan for anything we can't repair is to drill holes and use contrasting cyan zip-ties for a kinda drift-stitched, kintsugi look.