Had this in my sig for a week or so, but now the bike is actually riding like a new bike too, I’m going to show it off on here!
So a while back I bought a bike that looked average-ish off ebay. On turning up to collect it the paintwork was crap, it was rusty all over the frame, someone had messed with loads of bits leaving them bodged, just in neglected state in general really. Garrett and Burger may remember seeing it at Infinity, looking like it was one step away from being ridden to the scrap yard!
The original plan was give it a coat of paint to brighten it up, but the more we stripped it down, the more we decided needed to be done!
Here is the original picture off ebay, cause I didn’t think of taking a ‘before’ pic until too late! Note that the bike looked much worse than this is real life. Some of the paintwork (back end, mudguard etc) had been crudely rubbed down and coated in Hammerite - quality. The engine was mostly bare, with the remnants of the old paint and laquer hanging off it, the wheels were dull etc etc.
Before:
We got it down to this to do the chain:
…which was a little loose!:
Head ended up coming off:
Then I spent a day and a half with a wire wheel stripping the frame to bare metal:
Painted panels etc:
Cleaned and laquered the wheels:
Even painted the engine!:
Put it back together:
Before and after:
More pics (full day by day photos) here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=80570&id=694960587
Since then we’ve had the carbs out again, and found that the guy that had it last had not only put one of the diaphragms in kinked (resulting in a large hole and flooding one cylinder), but had put the jets in the wrong places! The bike now performs as it should, and is a pleasure to ride!
