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I made a chainguard out of a bit of aluminium flat bar, rivetedsome supports to it, looks a lot cleaner and less cluttered than the stock one.
The original exhaust header was pitted with rust so I decided to wrap it, new ones are fairly expensive and postage is down here, it looks white in the picture but it has tuned a browny grey colour now which loks good.
Bought some foam for the seat pan. Glued and shaped it but will leave the final cover for a professional.
The more I researched the more I liked the bare metal tank look. I stripped the paint off it but left a stripe of the old paint
off to one side to break it up. Its got no clear coat or anything, I just polish it with wax every now and then and it doesn't
rust at all.
The seat came back from the upholsterers, they did a great job. Went down the home made route just to keep the cost of the project down. Mounted the tail light , time is coming to wire it up!
Decided to keep the standard size battery, I like the look of having nothing in the frame, but also having a visible battery box. Tried to make a feature of it, the lid comes of by removing a screw on the front. Had the box folded and welded, then gave it a light polish.
Made a small bracket for the recitfier and mounted it underneath the lower triple tree. Good airflow and hardly noticable.
Managed to source some new tank badges which were still on the way.
All done, here's a few finished pics.. picked up some cheap rear view mirrors, hopefully will go to bar-end ones later on.
Had great fun with this bike, a lot of time and not much money spent on it and shes looks completely different than before!
Yeah, that bike is shit hot. Looks like we both had the same kind of bike in mind when we started our builds. I love the way my bike has turned out, but I would be just as happy to have yours. Cracking job!
It goes really well, just put a new plug and lead on it, the old one was on its way out. Finding with the flat seat you kinda find the best place to sit vs the original one which was one area only. Sitting a lot lower so it corners a bunch better. Removing the airbox seems to have livened it up as well
It goes really well, just put a new plug and lead on it, the old one was on its way out. Finding with the flat seat you kinda find the best place to sit vs the original one which was one area only. Sitting a lot lower so it corners a bunch better. Removing the airbox seems to have livened it up as well
I've already got a cone filter for the bike, I've just got to finish cleaning the carb to fit it. Did you have to re-jet? I hear they run a bit lean without the air box. I was going to buy a new main jet and move the needle a click or two depending on how it ran.
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