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Well, I got the bike fired up for the first time yesterday and it's a really quiet sounding motor ;D There's a couple of issues to sort out though: 1. There's a petrol leak from the carbs - not totally unexpected from 25 year old units that haven't been run in 5 years, so I dug around my...

I had one of these back in the late '80's, and after finishing using it for inner city courier work I bored it to 535cc, fitted XR500 enduro cam , mild port and polish, got rid of the twin wall headers and replaced them with a free flowing set with a supertrap muffler and an amal 40 smooth bore...

You look like you've scored a good project bike there with all the important bits still attached. I think your going in the right direction by getting it running first and then moving more into the project phase. The most important thing is to enjoy the process of resurrecting your bike as there...

Loving this !!! :)

I've always loved the Bulti's too but their as rare as hens teeth down here. One thing to consider before you go the café route, from memory the Alpina has a motor tuned for low down / mid range torque and has quite a heavy flywheel and you may be disappointed with the result.

I've been enjoying your build for quite a while, and feeling a bit of the frustration about the non-revving problem your having. A thought occurred to me today as I watched the latest video instalment, the bike actually sounds like it's revving right out and I wonder if the problem could be...

It was a bit of hammer / sand bag followed up with my English wheel, and a whole lot of polishing. The bike is an on going project and I'll be making an ali rear wheel hugger over the next few months as well. Were 3 weeks into a mild Spring here so the emphasis is now on getting it on the road...

I've been trying to figure out what to do about a pipe for a few months and I finally decided that at this stage I'd go with my use what's already there philosophy and modified the original 4:1 by adding a muffler section to it. It's a bit like what we use to build in the 70's, but with a tip...

That's what I like to see, logical thinking to a complicated problem - this answer never occurred to me; so it's a good one to file away for future reference :)

Suscribed ;D

It's been a week or three since I could get some time to work on the bike, but I managed to squeeze some work in over the last week. I had a strange thing happening with the indicators. When I had the front ones wired up and one of the rear, they worked as they should, but when I connected the...

Nice build Terry, the SR500 is one of my favourite's and I'm definitely following this build :)

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Re: '76 RD400c -- 2 stroke monster One place to have a look at for the vibration are the engine mounts, check that they are torqued to the right settings. This was always a source of strange vibes on the Kawasaki 500's (at least it was on mine).

I like my bikes naked, but this has a good vibe to it.

With what you said about the chewed up threads, it sounds like the first move is to get them repaired and then repeat the compression test; as you may be losing some PSI through the threads. Fixing the threads might entail removing the head, but it's not a big job and it'll give you a chance to...

Good to have your input 01marc, I'm not a powder coater professional or other wise, and your info has cleared up this area for readers of this thread. :)

When I needed to restrict the steering lock on my SV1000S to suit the superbike bars that I'd fitted, I drilled and tapped a 6mm hole in the side part of the steering stop and screwed in cap screws. Took about 30 minutes and it can be easily reversed if you want the full travel again.

I decided to black out an air cleaner on an old sportster I had a few years back and the only way to do it so it would last was to take it to a chrome platers and have the chrome chemically removed, and as it was an ali unit, it had to be etch primed first and then painted in the usual way. As...

Maybe the best way is to go back to the std shock length which will give you better cornering clearance, by the way, I like your FZ 750 - I'm a great fan of their 750's and 1000's.