While riding the bike I have been sanding and painting the old saddlebags that I bought online. I made them the same Ivory color as the bottom of the gastank, but have not put them on the bike yet as I wanted to fix the rear brake issues first, and they would just be in the way when doing that...

 
 

The rear brake sometimes refused to release after braking hard, so I was avoiding using it at all. Not good! The big banana brakes have only one piston, and the whole caliper is supposed to slide on 2 pins to connect the other brakepad to the disc. When the pins and bushings wear out, as they had on this bike, the piston can get jammed in the bore of the caliper causing everything to get extremely hot and making the bike impossible to move until everything cools down again. I used a bolt and a rear chaintensioner of my bike to do make an improvised press, pressing the old bushings out with the new bushings. I installed new pins and put some copper grease on the pins.