I wasn’t planning to write this one up.
But I was asked very nicely by Tuftywhite. And he had just dropped his bike on the way over for me to have a look. (Thanks Tufty, nice to meet you).
Anyway, I wanted an air head adventure bike to do the TAT and maybe parts of the TET or Iceland or similar.
I was fortunate to get a good G/S donor bike - good as in not good enough to fully restore, but enough bits to form the base.
So after much research and several conversations with knowledgeable people (and some, not so) I’ve settled on a spec and starting the build.
Which of course means a trip to see Mike the magician.
I managed to stuff most of the bits in the car, bar the fuel tank.
But that’ll get swapped for an HPN job anyway.
The gearbox (kick start btw) is a thing of beauty, and has low first high fifth, all new bearings and wearing parts.
The block has a new crank and mains, Siebenrock 1000cc kit is coming as is a ceramic clutch and warmed up Cam.
Time to sell the second kidney. Or alternatively the 1250RT.
But I was asked very nicely by Tuftywhite. And he had just dropped his bike on the way over for me to have a look. (Thanks Tufty, nice to meet you).
Anyway, I wanted an air head adventure bike to do the TAT and maybe parts of the TET or Iceland or similar.
I was fortunate to get a good G/S donor bike - good as in not good enough to fully restore, but enough bits to form the base.
So after much research and several conversations with knowledgeable people (and some, not so) I’ve settled on a spec and starting the build.
Which of course means a trip to see Mike the magician.
I managed to stuff most of the bits in the car, bar the fuel tank.
But that’ll get swapped for an HPN job anyway.
The gearbox (kick start btw) is a thing of beauty, and has low first high fifth, all new bearings and wearing parts.
The block has a new crank and mains, Siebenrock 1000cc kit is coming as is a ceramic clutch and warmed up Cam.
Time to sell the second kidney. Or alternatively the 1250RT.