Well, not a lot been happening, but did get round to doing the oil and filter change this weekend at mileage 22402, so 5220 miles after the last one.

Longer than I would have liked, but circumstance prevented and it was still well within the 7k stated in the handbook.

One the plus side, I ordered the oil from M&P, they got it wrong and sent mineral oil, rather than semi-synth and to compensate got 4 litres of full synth a couple of days later.

Also intended to put the standard can back on to let me quieten down the MTC one as it may fail the Knockhill trackday noise check... could not separate it from the down pipes, then Jim Allan had run out of exhaust padding, so that will need to get done another day.

Anyway, more later, inbcluding mocked up naked pics...

Supension sussed

Finally got a chance to pop out the rear shock and check the 07 R1 unit for fitment and it looks to be a fairly straight forward fit:

I need a couple of bushed made to bring the lower frame locating holes down from 12mm to 10mm and a couple of 1mm washers to take up the gap in the slightly wider ER6 fitting.

As far as the top mounting goes, as the frame is threaded it will be easier to stick with the original bolt; luckily that bush on the new shock is removable, so I can get a replacement made with the same external diameter with the internal diameter opened out to 12mm.

So far so good - next I trial fitted the ZX6R F3 forks and while it was looking good, though longer than standard, the wheel would need different spacers to centre it and to top it all the discs were running very close to the for lowers, so much so that the brake calipers would not fit - the ZX6R F3 wheel must a bit thinner around the centre to allow the discs to sit in a bit. Looks like it is back to the plan of fitting the ZX6R stanchions into the ER6 lowers.

The only quandry is what difference will it make with there being no compression adjustment screw, or if I can simply use the ER6 damper rod... some more investigation needed; will need to split the ZX6R forks first... at some point

Will also try and upload the photos of the fork trial fit