In a little over 36 hours Hero will be off for it's MOT, so I spent some time today do a few jobs to get parts out of my shed. As well as tightening up the wheel nuts and running the engine for a bit (which made the customary blue smoke cloud - I hope my injector cleaner sorts that) I added the mud flaps. Since I don't have the require rivnut tool I made one...how igenious of me! In fairness I copied the idea from someone else on the web, and once I managed to get a decent nut and bolt and a piece of steel rather than aluminium it worked really well. Suffice to say the first flap took about 3 hours to fit, with about 4 remakes of my rivnut tool, whereas the second took about 30 mins with the definitive version.

Here's a slightly fuzzy shot of the flaps, (I was too tired after fitting the bits to swap the camera lens over from the 300mm).



I'll post an update on monday with the results of the MOT.