Today I purchased an old and unloved TY175 from a friend. He's had the bike about 18 years and back when we were young and stupid we used to ride it around his field, and occasionally on the back roads near his home. It was taken apart about 12 years ago by him and was left in the same spot until now. Its going to take me lot of time, and money but I'm hoping to get this bike looking great again and hopefully do a couple of trials on it. I'm unsure on whether to restore, modify to majesty frame or make a modern twinshock with discs at the moment but its not something I'll be rushing into just yet.

Good on you for saving the old gal from the crusher. I hope it came with some larges boxes of parts from when it was disassembled.

my advice would be make it a good rider if you go original it will cost you a fortune and you will be scared to drop it good luck

You certainly like a challenge good luck.

I think I would strip it and sell it for spares. Use the money to buy something a little more complete

Those comments are not very encouraging but as Yoda said '' Happy you will be when result is good, patience my friend '' Or was it someone else that said that.

Guy

It's not unusual to need a few basket cases to make one complete bike. I have a TY250B that is made up from three bikes that were all worse than what you have there in their own way. You can always sell off the excess bits when you have a complete bike, to recover some costs

I like that saying Guy

Thanks for the comments guys, I do have another bike so I won't be rushed into building this. It does have a box of bits although I'm still missing, rear gaurd, seat, air box and carb. I'm probably looking to go down the majesty route, it's not the cheapest option but the bike practically stands me at nothing, and I'll get just as much enjoyment out of building it as I will riding, although I won't be making it do the same kinda stuff as my Scorpa does.