When I bought the bike, the seller told me it was an “open title” that he’d never put in his name. Okay, not a huge deal. However, when I received the title (long distance sale), I found that he had signed the back as the buyer two years ago.

Crap! I just got a useless piece of paper.

I expressed my displeasure (!) to the seller and set about trying to get my bike titled.
I went to an “Authorized Third Party” DMV place and was told I needed a notarized Power of Attorney.

After some mis-matched numbers and mail back and forth…  He got me the correct paperwork – it arrived this morning!

I hooked the trailered bike up to my dirty little car which I still haven’t washed post-Haboob. (it’s fun to say, isn’t it?)

and skedaddled over to the Authorized Third Party place I went to last week.

The DMV lady took all my paperwork

and a whopping $27 later, I had me a bonafide title!

Tomorrow, I pick up my DG expansion chambers from the sandblaster, and hopefully, I’ll get the brakes sorted out over the weekend. Going to look into modding some FZR600 rearsets or some other rearset fix. Yay!

Started this morning putting the RD back together with the express purpose of starting it up. Since there aren’t any brakes, can’t ride it … but since the carbs are fixed and the key finally arrived(!), I wanted to hear my bike.

My friend Jon came over and brought a fan. Yay. At 9:30am it was already in the low 100°’.
We got the rear wheel back on and I cleaned the chain. Yeah, I prolly shoulda taken it off and soaked it, but since it was dirty and not kinky, I said “screw it.”

It was easier to get the stock pipes back on without the stock footpegs (and I want some rear sets anyway) so those went away. I thought my view from lying on the floor was pretty cool, so I took a pic:

Got front wheel back on (also sans brakes), tank installed with fresh pre-mix and battery back in. She’s ready to start up! Kicked right over!

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It dies pretty quick once choke is turned off, so I gotta get the carbs dialed in. But first, pipes, then I’ll mess with the tuning.

Next:
Brakes
Fork seals
Grips
Get some different instruments
Fit my spiky seat on
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