After lurking around for a few months, I might as well introduce myself and my bike. I'm Bill from Gilbert AZ and back in June I picked up this little gem while I was up in Heber as a fathers day gift for $1200. It needed a battery and ran, well, barely but it was complete and unmolested. It hasn't been registered since 91 when the original owner passed away and left it to his son who basically stored it in his garage, only to fire it up once or twice in the last 20 years. It didn't take much to sell Mrs. Gumby on it and having the trailer with us turned out to be ever so convenient.
So far I've pulled off the CHiP's fairing and crash bar, added clubman bars with bar end mirrors, rebuilt the carbs, replaced the points & plugs and cleaned the #$%* out of everything. Next is rebuild the gauges and replace the faces with black overlays and a new rear tire should be here this week so I can detail the back wheel. I'm not going too crazy with this round of mods since it's to be my daily. I would like to get some mufflers with a bit more volume, possibly a 4-1 set up from a 400f, but I'm torn as I really like the look of stock set up.
As it sat when I picked it up
On the back patio for carb removal
This explains a lot
It gets hot outside in AZ, this is much better
Next up is clubman bars
Pulled the front wheel or detailing and new tire
An entire can of oven cleaner
Front wheel installed and all cleaned up
I'll be on the lookout for a donor seatpan soon to make a cafe seat out of a I do t want to hack up the original seat permanently. I also need to do something about the ginormous brake light and rear fender. Thinking on using the Lucas one from my Norton since I'll be changing that one out if I ever get to working on that again!