OJ
Been Around the Block
So let me get a thread going.
I bought a bike from a friend of mine, here's my re-intorduction blurb from another thread.
I'm planning on picking up my new bike next week, so not too much to share at this point. I'll just post some photos to get things going. What I know of the bike is that it has some track days under her belt. The motor has "stamp" indicating that some porting has probably been done. The pipes appear to be aftermarket as well. The top front fairing and wind shield are not original, but rather something that has been made to work. I'm sure there is more to it, and I'll sort them out as I find them.
Right now my plan is to repair the fairings, found some ABS repair tricks online, one being acetone repair and then there are some commercial products that could be used. I don't think there are too many pieces missing, but some cracks for sure. I really don't want to spend $$$$$ on new plastics, so this will be a bit of a learning project on how to work with plastics. Oh...and I think I need to get new tires as I just don't like to run old/unknown condition tires on anything. Looks like Avon 26 and Battlax 45 are readily available options.
But feel free to comment or share even crazy ideas for this bike.
I'll be posting another thread on my KTM as I'm trying to sort out the gremlins in that beast. I figured this forum is more receptive to my ideas than KTM and dirt bike forums where $$$$ is often the solution to every problem. I know
I bought a bike from a friend of mine, here's my re-intorduction blurb from another thread.
Most recently, meaning yesterday, I agreed to buy a sweet 1986 Yamaha RZ350 Canadian model from a friend. This bike purchase I managed to convince my wife to approve as I had a 40th B-day trip planned for this spring. Trip started as class A trip (boys only), but then was downgraded to class B (spouses allowed) as some participants had some travel approval challenges. From class B the trip was downgraded to class C (family trip, wife/kids, no inlaws) that we had booked and paid for already. Then this pandemic thing hit, and the whole thing changed to no trip at all. Luckily we got full refund. So in this context, I was able to convince my wife that the bike is a great substitute. So here I am, working on logistics to get that bike over to my place.
I'm planning on picking up my new bike next week, so not too much to share at this point. I'll just post some photos to get things going. What I know of the bike is that it has some track days under her belt. The motor has "stamp" indicating that some porting has probably been done. The pipes appear to be aftermarket as well. The top front fairing and wind shield are not original, but rather something that has been made to work. I'm sure there is more to it, and I'll sort them out as I find them.
Right now my plan is to repair the fairings, found some ABS repair tricks online, one being acetone repair and then there are some commercial products that could be used. I don't think there are too many pieces missing, but some cracks for sure. I really don't want to spend $$$$$ on new plastics, so this will be a bit of a learning project on how to work with plastics. Oh...and I think I need to get new tires as I just don't like to run old/unknown condition tires on anything. Looks like Avon 26 and Battlax 45 are readily available options.
But feel free to comment or share even crazy ideas for this bike.
I'll be posting another thread on my KTM as I'm trying to sort out the gremlins in that beast. I figured this forum is more receptive to my ideas than KTM and dirt bike forums where $$$$ is often the solution to every problem. I know