I'm interested - when I was a bicycle mechanic we used to do a lot of strip downs - we used to time them to make things more exciting - typically 10 - 15 mins to strip down to bare frame with parts in a crate (so long as there were no seized bits like seat post or bottom bracket) - but motorbikes were way too complex for me - probably would have taken me 15 mins to take the seat off!

Maybe a week to take a seat off on this then, as you have to bend the seat back, to get to a hidden allen key, :-) Will do a full post on the rebuild, as two of you are interested, and only one interest is better than none. :-)