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 Posted: 18:17 - 24 Oct 2015  Post subject: Winter projects |
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A few jobs to do over the winter.
350YPVS. Acquired this a couple of months ago. 8.5k miles, really good condition, never restored. Need to paint the pipes back to original finish, repaint the swing arm and do some touching up on the frame. It could do with some decent brake pads in as well. Also replace a fork seal.
https://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt220/OldGitRacing/P1000428.jpg[/img]
350 race YPVS. Intend to do some hillclimbs on this next year. It was last run in anger in 2009 but last year I 'fettled' the barrels fitted 2mm oversize Wossner pistons and a Banshee spec crank. Need to sort the battery mounting out, get some new race tyres, replace the hardened fuel lines and generally tidy it up a bit.
https://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt220/OldGitRacing/P1000358.jpg
Probably the biggest project is to rebuild my mates firestorm engine. It lunched the front cylinder valves after the tensioner broke. Fitted a second hand head and manual tensioners but it sounds like a bag of spanners so there is probably more damage. He's got a good bottom end (supposedly) so it's a strip both to make 1 good engine.
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https://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt220/OldGitRacing/P1000433.jpg
Finally the good old Beemer. Check tappets, oil and filter change, wash its lamby seat cover  .
https://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt220/OldGitRacing/P1000436.jpg
I'll try and update as and when I get chance to do something. The Honda engine build might be 'interesting'
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would love an rd 350, of any variation, but they're all silly money  |
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| jamesdoe99 wrote: | would love an rd 350, of any variation, but they're all silly money |
Jamesdoe99, as 1999, therefore being 16? Once you get a job, you'll soon find out that a lot of things are way more accessible than they appear now. 
RD's are getting rather rare, but it's not impossible to obtain one in alright condition. We are talking £2,000-2,500 here, which is the same money a 10-15 years old sportbike would go for now. It's all about your preferences. 
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i'm probably older and richer than you. |
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| RhynoCZ wrote: | Being older is nothing to be proud of once you hit adulthood. Richer you might be, but then you find RD's expensive, which they are not.  |
There's 'rich' and there's 'affluent'.
Technically, I'm relatively 'rich', 'cos on the balance sheet, I own more than I owe, but I am far from 'affluent'. & I don't think I have ever been as 'affluent' as when I was a 'kid'; 17 working on building sites, cash rolled in, and bills didn't... I could afford a brand new RD350YPVS back then.... I couldn't afford a second hand one that came in kit form, these days! This has nothing to do with the 'appreciation' and 'classic' status the things have acquired, it is to do with the difference between 'rich' and 'affluent'!
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