Bumblebee ripe for a restoration.......let's go go go

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I bought an R100gs from boxer supplies, it was Mats personal bike. He had not used it in a few years due to breaking his ankle on an outfit and it was looking very tired.

.........this is where I would have inserted a photo but I didn't take one :blast so instead you can meet the family.....we decided to get merrier 2 years ago after being together for 17 years!



Anywho, I got it back home and decided I would restore it over the winter so this is the thread....:thumb2

Please feel free to take the piss and don't sugar coat anything :augie



Stupidly I didn't save the first few photos of the bike so this is the bike in a semi stripped state as things started to get dismantled



The tank is from one of my other bikes.......I have no idea why it's sat on the bike :nenau
 
Hopefully Steve it will have found a new home by then! .........come on JB it's nearly finished :D
 


Yep, I don't think it had been cleaned in it's lifetime Mike. Before I started to strip it I got it fired up and with a little fiddling about it was as sweet as a nut. Mat said the motor was sound and I took his word for it, as he couldn't find the keys :blast
He found another ignition lock with a key and I took it with the bike.........little did I know the gearbox was not so sweet :mad:
 
Mats probably road it hard, off road, it tends to do that to a bike.
It is actually a badge of honor in Oz, the last half dozen G/S GS bitsa's I have seen have been even scruffier than mine, almost to the point that you couldn't imagine it happening by accident!!
 
Reminds me of some functional piece of industrial engineering, such as the underside of a train, it had a job to do and cosmetics were an inefficient waste of resources so deemed unnecessary. Looking forward to more photos. :thumb2
 
A few more photos of the strip down.
This was never going to be a quick paint and polish everything was filthy and as JB said it was cosmetically very poor.
I've never really liked the colour scheme of the bumblebee so i decided it was going to be painted alpine white with the blue decals.
I thought about building a bit of a one off special but i think a standard bike is probably more saleable.







The gearbox oil was a clue as to what was coming later........
 










The twin disc conversion was a new one on me, I have not seen this set up before?
 
So first of all I go and see my friend Dave, he has a vapour blaster and specialises in bike parts. He is based in sunny Bridlington and has transformed those crud covered bings into this thing of beauty......

 
This is a link to his website, he's a mint guy and not expensive either.
http://www.vipvapourblasting.co.uk

He will also be blasting the other parts from the bike later.

I had a to deliver a bike somewhere in the Black Country, so I can kill two birds here and drop the wheels over to central wheels in Birmingham for stainless spokes and a polish, they supplied and fitted the spokes, polished the rims and blasted the hubs for £425 the pair including vat! Now some may think that's expensive but let me tell you, the last pair I did were a fecking nightmare and that was just getting the spokes out! These wheels were in awful condition and have come back like new :thumb2
 
Nippy Normans supply Touratech, Wunderlich, Desert Fox and many other makes of accessories.
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