I rode it on the road for quite a while and then bought a ktm 1190 adv and started using that for road stuff instead of the honda. In the mean time I took it on track a couple of times and really enjoyed that. I bought some cheap chinese fairings for it and stored the nice ones away. After another year of track days I realised that I just wanted to use the honda on track so took all the road stuff off it, installed a quick shifter, a quick throttle tube and a slipper clutch and had the suspension rebuilt with ktech parts for the track. It now looks like this...
It's been like that for a couple of years now I think. I know it doesn't look as nice but I have all the parts to put it back to stock safely stored. Bizarrely it's worth more now that when I bought it that to the totally screwy used bike market. Mechanically it's really good and it rides like a dream. I suspect some people might say it's bland but it's a fantastic bike to ride on track if you're not very good because it's pretty much always predictable.
Anyway, today I was getting it ready for this year fitting a new rear tyre, changing the oil and filter, flushing and replacing all the clutch and brake fluid and cleaning the calipers. I even waved a sponge at it but because the fairing is unpainted it didn't make a lot of difference.
This is one way to break the bead on a tyre without any appropriate tools...
