After a marathon 17 hour session at Teknik last Saturday it lives.
A huge thank you goes out to my mate, Nick Dole at Teknik Racing for turning this old bike into what you see here.
After wheeling it into his shop at 8am he pulls it completely apart. Supplies and fits new steering head bearing kit, new swingarm bearings, new linkage bearings, new front and rear tyres, new tubes, new rim bands, new rim locks, new gear lever, new 34mm carby, new throttle cable, new grips. Services and fits V4S travel control valves and new springs in the fork. Drills out PFR pegs to accomodate larger pins. Cuts and bends DG pipe to fit neatly and makes new brackets to mount pipe and muffler. Fits new engine bolts. Machines nylon spacers to space sidecovers. Machines new chain roller. Heat guns plastics to fit properly.
At 10pm he has the shock dismantled on his bench. He tells me its fu...cked and he doesnt have the parts in stock to fix it. I say no prob, you have done well and it is 10pm after all. He then walks out the back and grabs a 50mm solid piece of aluminium bar, sticks it in the lathe and makes a new seal head and all the other bits he needs.
At 1am Sunday morning he starts it up and rides it down the road to test it, adjusts carby and we load it into my trailer. Job done.
All of this work was done in house, on one day by one man. There wouldnt be a bike shop around with the capability and the inclination to give a customer this type of service.
People ask me why do i always take my bikes to Teknik. Well there are bike shops with mechanics and then there is Teknik Racing.
