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I am quite spectacularly envious.
I wouldn't hang on to the tyres; if there's any visible cracking in the sidewall, it's enough of a sign to change them. Not to mention the fact that the Russians are hardly renowned for their world-class tyres.
I'm also quite liking the screw-fit exhaust clamps - it's a wonderfully quirky touch.
Have you checked things like parts availability yet?
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Much I am liking this! Different yes! two-stroke yes! 
Tell me as much as you can about where you get parts & spares please.
I have a couple of old Jawas that are going to be made into one bike (I hope), so the more Eastern Bloc sites we know about the better
Lots of detail please
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Anyone want to hear what a Soviet 175 2-stroke with a blowing exhaust sounds like?
https://youtu.be/TsPx56eHA2E
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Looks cool As for the brakes, cable operated drums? Oh god why  Interesting bike for sure
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| Efes123 wrote: | Seriously envious, but I don't envy you trying to find parts. Looking forward to more updates. |
Fingers crossed, but at the moment it doesn't look like we'll need to find any parts. We can mostly make whatever we need or find something else that fits. It's not going to be a faithful concourse condition rebuild, just a sensible one. For instance I'd love to get everything rechromed, but it would be silly money and not reflected in its final value. So most chromed parts are going to be either Rustoleum cream or Satin black.
For the tyres it looks as if there's only two options. Either Matis tyres for £35 or so each or rather pricey Dunlops for £70 ish each. Matis it is then
This is the Yamaha headlight trim, it's almost a perfect fit, but it just needed the lip cutting down to fit snuggly on the Voskhod lamp. It would have been easier to cut the Voskhod lamp, but decided to keep that unmolested on the extremely thin chance of ever finding a genuine headlight. with the lip gone the clips that hold the glass/reflector in place no longer worked, so we just gluegunned the glass in place. (added bonus is its now its watertight)
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3464.jpg
Here's the lamp painted, we've since fucked up the finish on this by trying to polish it so will need to repaint it.
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3475.jpg
The rear shocks seem to be fine. These along with the wheels and rack have all been badly painted in silver metal paint at some point. They've done this because the original chrome has disintegrated. The Ruskies where masters of making steel, but frankly total shit at chroming. The plan with these is to do them two tone, either orange or cream on the top sleeve and black below.
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3473.jpg
Some more random photos. I guess it would have been nice to save these stickers, but I destroyed them when trying to peel them off. Truth be told I didn't like them anyway, i think keeping a high res record of them is good enough. Its the sort of thing I would have peeled off if I'd bought it new myself anyway.
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3470.jpg
Back of the storage boxes being cleaned:
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3471.jpg
Inside one of the storage boxes. Not sure what the little shelf thing is for, probably the missing toolkit. The bakelite switch is the for the rear brake light. The bike only has that, theres is no front brake light switch. It will pass and MOT with only one brake light switch because of its age (can't remember the year it has to be older than off the top of my head, but I did check)
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3472.jpg
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The rack was painted in the same shitty silver as the wheels and the shocks. Should be grateful that it was done to be honest because there is maybe about 15% of the original chrome left on it, the rest has just flaked off. The rack is solid though, no rust. a little bent, but it's straightened now.
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3776.jpg
That big rectangular opening at the front is for the airbox intake, we are planning on using some of that area to mount the new 12v battery(s). Gotten some 12v dry cell alarm batteries leftover from them being replaced at my brothers work. Ill get a photo of them up now I think about it. The best batteries for small bike 12v conversions are the ones they sell for alarm backups/model airplanes etc.. cos they are smaller/more powerful and sealed so you can mount them in whichever weird place you can find to fit it.
It took quite alot of wire wheeling on the grinder, then I went over the remaining chrome with a flap disc to cut into it.
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3777.jpg
Testing the cream, then i remembered I was supposed to be painting the underneath in black first.
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3778.jpg
Underside in hammerite, purely for protection, none of this will be visible:
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3779.jpg
And the finished rack. The cream is Rustoleum Combi-color aerosol can. It's only £4.50 on the Rustoleum website, produces a really nice finish straight from the can. Takes hours to dry though, unlike Hammerite or the orange Rustoleum which are dry in about 30 mins.
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3854.jpg
This is the frame after jetwashing. Gave it a light going over in some places with the flap disc.
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3845.jpg
At some point a previous owner has had the engine out, but put it back in without one of the rear engine mounts. Because of this the engine has been vibrating too much and started to crack the front mounts just in front of the welds. This photo shows it, but the other side was bigger, I forgot to get a photo of that though before we welded it.
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3843.jpg
This is the other side after welding and grinding back down with the flapdisc. Just used an Aldi arc welder to do it. That's another bonus of the Russian steel its so thick you can use an arc welder.
https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd216/jascook/Voskhod/IMG_3842.jpg
The frame is now painted, I'll get the pics of that up later. After that this thread will be right up to date with the progress, so we'll have to get some more done!. Been distracted from it the last few days with cleaning CX500 carbs.
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So I ring them up and manage to garner from them that they might have the engine number down by mistake as the frame number ( because of 40 year old hastily filled in registration docs I guess). Anyway I send them emails of labelled photos and hard copies explaining that the frame number I gave them is definately correct and they need to change that on the doc for the engine number they mistakenly have......another 3 weeks later!, I get the v5......with the wrong number still on there. DVLA - Useless tards. 
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so a bit of "Heath Robinson" will be required unless I can find another that fits?
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