I bought this bike a month or so ago, from the original owner. with the exception of some touch ups and throttle and kill switch rigging 100% original I believe. It even came with the dated original owners manual.
Not really the coolest bike out there, or oldest. But still kinda neet since I was 10 in '83 so this would have been the bike I would have been drooling over in the stores.
Here it is the day I brought it home:
I disassembled it, and stripped the paint, nice thing about an original bike is the paint comes off real easy as its only one coat :smile:. I did have a light bend in the forks (I thought they were straight till I pulled the nameplate off), I straightened them in the press.
I was not intending to to go hog wild on this, used some cheap leftover black paint and hoped it would just come out uniform, it actually came out looking pretty good after a little polishing! I sandblasted the wheels, I was hoping to just hit them with steel wool afterward and then clearcoat over them, but there was some spotting and I did not want to spend all day on it so Hit them with some silver and a light shot of clear.
Sorry no shots of the painting, there was nothing really notable anyway, no repairs needed to be done.
Heres where I am at with it right now:
the motor ran when I bought it, it was leaking fuel from the inlet on the carb. I fixed that and did some touch ups to the block and carb, I polished up the shroud etc.. I did not take it apart at all. Not a perfect job but it looks pretty good.
I will take the muff off and blast it, not sure if I am going to spray it silver or black just yet though.
I really dont care for the nameplate, but its unique to this bike, the seat is molded foam made to look like stitched vinyl :doah: gotta love the '80's...
I think I will need a new throttle assy, I still need to strip the rear fender and weld a few cracks up at the bolt holes, but thats about it. I should have it going just as soon as I get over the fact I'm going to scratch the hell out of the engine plate soon as I mount the motor:laugh:
Not really the coolest bike out there, or oldest. But still kinda neet since I was 10 in '83 so this would have been the bike I would have been drooling over in the stores.
Here it is the day I brought it home:
I disassembled it, and stripped the paint, nice thing about an original bike is the paint comes off real easy as its only one coat :smile:. I did have a light bend in the forks (I thought they were straight till I pulled the nameplate off), I straightened them in the press.
I was not intending to to go hog wild on this, used some cheap leftover black paint and hoped it would just come out uniform, it actually came out looking pretty good after a little polishing! I sandblasted the wheels, I was hoping to just hit them with steel wool afterward and then clearcoat over them, but there was some spotting and I did not want to spend all day on it so Hit them with some silver and a light shot of clear.
Sorry no shots of the painting, there was nothing really notable anyway, no repairs needed to be done.
Heres where I am at with it right now:
the motor ran when I bought it, it was leaking fuel from the inlet on the carb. I fixed that and did some touch ups to the block and carb, I polished up the shroud etc.. I did not take it apart at all. Not a perfect job but it looks pretty good.
I will take the muff off and blast it, not sure if I am going to spray it silver or black just yet though.
I really dont care for the nameplate, but its unique to this bike, the seat is molded foam made to look like stitched vinyl :doah: gotta love the '80's...
I think I will need a new throttle assy, I still need to strip the rear fender and weld a few cracks up at the bolt holes, but thats about it. I should have it going just as soon as I get over the fact I'm going to scratch the hell out of the engine plate soon as I mount the motor:laugh: