My toy:
Not quite finished, but I'm pretty happy with myself, seeing as it started the weekend looking like this:
A lack of spark was traced to a dead stator - funnily enough, the dead stator looks pristine, while the functioning one looks like its been dragged from the bottom of the ocean...
Plus lots of other fiddly stuff - cleaning out mud-wasp's nest from the carby, regreasing stiff steering head bearings, swapping tyres, etc.
Main things still to deal with are:
Cleaning up the pipe (stupidly, I have a brand-newie that I'm too scared to fit to the bike - you should have seen how long it took me to fit the NOS RHS sidecover.
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fitting a smaller front sprocket (this is a 15T one - apart from the gearing issues, it prevents me fitting the cover);
making a muffler;
Fitting a kill-switch;
and sorting out a rear guard/rear frame loop.
I haven't actually ridden it yet - it started second kick, and sat there idling happily - but then I remembered that The Boy was asleep inside so I shut it down. Apart from anything else, with no muffler its way too loud to go ripping around my suburban block...
There's a long story behind the bike and the bits, but the simple version is that I've been able to assemble a running bike that looks OK, for SFA money, thanks to Roger, 'the other Brent', Greg, Marty, Bruce and Nev - all top Aussie blokes (even if one of 'em is a Kiwi)
