Hawk Resurrection and Revival.

[Megadan]

In another thread of mine I debated selling the Hawk and getting a scooter. After some thought I decided that I am going to keep the Hawk, for now, and look into an ebike or scooter down the road.

Over the past couple of years life has put me in a bind more than a couple of times, and my own physical and mental health have suffered. I stopped caring about bikes in general, or a lot of other things for that matter. The Hawk just kinda bored me, and I lost the spark.

I decided I need to change things up a bit and try to make the Hawk fun again. I am going to start small with a couple of changes, and a lot more cleaning up and removal of some things than big changes.

First, I went ahead and ordered what was left of what I needed to do a round headlight. That should be here the middle of next week. Basically just a cheap copy.of the Trucklite.

To go with the round light I am going to remove the dirt bike style front fender and install one of these CG125 style metal fenders. I have this one on order as well. https://www.ebay.com/itm/294859784855

It should work with the 21 inch wheel by my measurements, and if not I have a couple.of ideas to make it work.

I also plan to lower the front down a little to help level the bike some wince I also lowered the rear. I don't need to do this really, but why not. It's easy to reverse if I dislike it.

I am still debating on deleting the tank plastics or not. I will wait until the above is installed before deciding. I also considered removing the side plastics and making a battery box foe under the seat, but that can be a down the road project.

Lastly, I am going to remove a few things. First, the fuse box and extra lighting harness I installed for the flood lights.

I plan to remove my skid plate, since I no longer ride off road much. If anybody has an interest in it let me know and I can box it up and see what shipping might be.

Still debating on the oil cooler. Since the bike is mainly.going to be a short distance machine, I have considered removing it. I may instead order a smaller stacked plate cooler and mount it in the same place. I am undecided at this point.

Lastly, I am considering buying a tbr7 front wheel to run an 18 rear 19 front combo with road tires. My one issue with this is mainly the cost. That, and my Shinko 700s have barely any wear on them, and ride good as they are. I may leave that for another day.

My bike as it currently sits for posterity and to track changes in this thread.