shipdamite Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 evening/morning all, finallyfinallyfinally I have bonded with the TY! It happened on Saturday at RTC practice track. All of the piston/leb/clutch/swing arm shimming/wheel bearing/chain slider/carb rebuilding/etc/etc trauma has paled into insignificance. It just all 'clicked' and I now love riding this bike - talk about slow burn! A big up for the other members of the RTC, namely - boghopper, benboss and alex-de-beta for the ongoing support/p*ss taking 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guys Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 No pictures??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipdamite Posted May 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 I have no pictures of this bike yet, but I will take some and post them up (probably at the weekend)................. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelly1 Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 good for you mate hope you enjoy it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipdamite Posted May 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2013 And here is the beastie! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipdamite Posted May 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2013 under the silver frame paint, there is blue paint; not sure if it was painted bultacosaurus blue as a finish coat, or if the blue is an undercoat for the silver. As you can see, the bike is far from mint, but its had lots of bits and bobs done by previous owner/s (kickstart fix, gear change fix, foot pegs from sammy miller, new fork legs etc) the last headache was the airbox; layers of old flaky paint getting into the carb .................... I ended up burning it all off with mrs shipdamites blowtorch and giving it a couple of coats of satin smoothrite (I havent used the satin finish before and it looks much better than the full gloss) at some point (not too soon [hopefully]) I will need to find a barrel that I can rebore for a nice new oem piston .............. sure that my cheapo piston is cause of some of the rattles. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guys Posted May 17, 2013 Report Share Posted May 17, 2013 Finaly we can see what you where talking about. Nice bike. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipdamite Posted May 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2013 Finaly we can see what you where talking about. Nice bike. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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