Project: Garage Find

Interesting....

[squirrel_hunter]

Originally Posted by punyXpress

psi ?

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

I would agree to that, or auction lot

Don't think its PSI thats 28F 32R. Auction lot possible, I was thinking more along the lines of price.

Originally Posted by punyXpress

. . or race number?

Don't think it would be. No other signs of racing and it was used as a road bike last. But to be fair anything is possible.

Originally Posted by ehhsee

Interesting....

Thanks.

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

Oh and if anyone has any suggestions as to why the front and rear wheels have "30" written on them in what appears to be white marker pen I'd be interested to know. I have a suspicion that these might not be the wheels the bike left the factory with...

Perhaps they've come from a breakers' yard. They write an identifying mark on them so when the auction with "30" ends they can go straight to the wheels without mixing them up.

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

I didn't even need to employ Stretchie's additional downforce advantage to mine

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

And if there's one thing Stretchies got, it's downforce

B'stards

[squirrel_hunter]

Things have been progressing but not as fast as I would like. However I do have a little update to report...

I'm surprised no one noticed from the tank posts that I dropped two off for acid dip but only have one back, what happened to the other one? Well its simple really, Chemiclean is not very easy to find.

Once I found the correct industrial units as its slightly off the beaten track I couldn't see which one I needed. Luckily there was a chap about to enter one so I called out to him and he pointed me in the correct direction to next door. As he went into his unit I happened to notice the sign on the door and after dealing with the acid decided I'd follow him in...

I had stumbled across a family run bike engineers called Rolling Art Motorcycles. They are tool makers by trade and it shows, they just won the professional build category in this years MCN Built In Britain.

So once my tanks were out of the acid they went next door to Rolling Art Motorcycles to be braised. Glenn examined the tanks and suggested that only one of them would be economical to repair so I left that one with him to be made solid.

So when I found the problem with the lockstop I knew where to take the frame, and the result looks far better than I could have imagined:



As well as repairing the tank and lockstops RAM are organising the painting of the tank and fairings, but more on that later. They have also sorted a couple of other little bits out for me, with some damaged threads being repaired, and the removal of the swing arm bearings. They are also going to be making me some bar pins, and reriviting the frame plate back on once powder coat is complete. And all for what I would say is a very reasonable price.

I've bookmarked Rolling Art as its always difficult to find engineering people that can/will do stuff specifically for motorcycles without charging silly prices. Its always good to know people who can do those little akward, specialist jobs. Coming on nicely.

[andrewsmith]

Looks good SH

glad to see the frames rebuilt

[squirrel_hunter]

Updates have been slow, but I've been doing somethings behind the scenes. For example I got forked again. Or more precisely I got the stanchions back from Pitted Forks and they look very nice.



6 week turn around as promised. Nicely packaged on return. Just need to give them a clean and wipe down with some WD40 and they will be good to go. However, at the moment I have nothing to stick them in as the bike is being powder coated.

I was going to get a local company to do it, but they took their time giving me a quote and I didn't think it was that great. But I was comparing the cost from 10 years ago, though I wouldn't have thought that it would have doubled in that time. So I phoned and emailed a couple of firms to get some prices.

One company came back with a price near £700, which was far more then I was expecting. But I think they interpreted the initial email about what I was looking for as more concourse as there was talk of Black Zinc and Bright Zinc among other things. In fairness to them I did suggest about matching some of the original colors. But I thought about it and decided that I risked going to far in the wrong direction and what I want from the bike is a standard looking machine with a few subtle modifications.



So in the end I took that little lot plus the frame and the wheels to Bristol Motorcycle Powder Coating. I've gone for 3 colors, red for the wheels, silver for the main frame parts and some of the brackets and black for the rest. Its going to be about £440 and 3 weeks, but I'm looking forward to it. When I was handing over the parts the chap dealing with the bikes went though the masking of particular areas to make sure I was happy with the intended outcome and I pointed out some of the less obvious ones so I have high hopes for this.

And now one final picture for this update. Just a teaser, I've got the tank back...

my neighbour and freind races tzrs and does all the work(hes got 3 of em!) so let me know if you have any specific questions and i can pass them on for you!

Its coming along dude, I have a little powdercoat fetish ever since sending the drz parts off. You'll be giddy when they come back, its loverly working with perfectly clean parts.