It has been done.

It's ... done?  Yes!  Well, 99% percent done.  Done enough for me to test ride safely through the neighborhoods of the North Side.  My shit is on serious lock with some street cred, via these pics:

Other side:

Parking lot:

And the lakefront:

The money pit gods have been somewhat sated, as in this process I seemed to have run the battery down to past the point of no return.  So a new one will be needed.  It won't be the end of the world, but I'd prefer to use the push start rather than the kickstart this weekend for Mods v. Rockers.  Thankfully, it's otherwise running perfectly.