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ScaredyCat
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PostPosted: 22:48 - 25 Feb 2015    Post subject: Anyone fancy doing a restoration? Reply with quote
How far gone is too far? Surely everything is shot on this, it's all going to be new anyway...

Or would it just buff out....

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188253/_bcf/barnfind.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188253/_bcf/barnfind2.jpg

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AJS-16MS-Barn-find-vintage-not-for-the-faint-hearted-/301542209076?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item463550f634
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PostPosted: 23:08 - 25 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
More "ornament" than "project".
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PostPosted: 23:10 - 25 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
the majority of it could have been saved, if it wasn't for the subframe etc...
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PostPosted: 23:10 - 25 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well, at least the chain isn't slack, the rest of the bike is though.
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PostPosted: 23:13 - 25 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks like its been stored on the Titanic. Confused

What's the silver looking lever thingy just behind the left fork in the first pic?
Appears to be the only thing that might be remotely salvageable.

inb4 Victor Devine.

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PostPosted: 23:20 - 25 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Restored that bike will fetch £3.5K to buy the wreck will cost Circa £1K (Engine and box are worth that) to restore it will cost £4K+.
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PostPosted: 23:26 - 25 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Barn find my ass! Where was this barn exactly?

recman wrote:
Looks like its been stored on the Titanic. Confused


I guess the Titanic had a barn then! Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:41 - 25 Feb 2015    Post subject: Re: Anyone fancy doing a restoration? Reply with quote
It's just a bit of 'welding flux' Wink.
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PostPosted: 00:02 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
when I first looked at those images I thought FUUUUUU.... but after looking at them for a minute or 2 I could actually visualise the parts being remade and returning it to its former glory
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PostPosted: 00:05 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
andym wrote:
when I first looked at those images I thought FUUUUUU.... but after looking at them for a minute or 2 I could actually visualise the parts being remade and returning it to its former glory


Which part are you talking about? I cannot think of any that doesn't need replacing.
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PostPosted: 00:10 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
recman wrote:
What's the silver looking lever thingy just behind the left fork in the first pic?


Decompression lever.

I bet it goes for silly money, It's only a 350 as well...
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PostPosted: 00:13 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's a curious definition of "complete".

If that were Gumtree it would say "was running fine, just needs a bit of TLC to sail through MOT".
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PostPosted: 00:15 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
mJZ wrote:
andym wrote:
when I first looked at those images I thought FUUUUUU.... but after looking at them for a minute or 2 I could actually visualise the parts being remade and returning it to its former glory


Which part are you talking about? I cannot think of any that doesn't need replacing.


1 or 2 of the spokes might be serviceble?
I've seen worse CGs.
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PostPosted: 00:18 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:


If that were Gumtree it would say "was running fine, just needs a bit of TLC to sail through MOT".

You forgot the "Mint, but...".

Of course, for Victory, I believe that's considered 'forecourt condition'!
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PostPosted: 00:29 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
'Sympathetic rebuild' !!!
WTF !!
That bike is dead, bereft of life, gone to meet the choir invisible
FUBAR !

It wasn't that good a bike new
Restored it will be slow, handle like pig, have crap brakes, drink juice
and be revered not ridden.
Anathema to my religious beliefs in which the holy manual
says quite clearly
" thou shalt not worship garage queens"
and
"Just get on and ride the fuckin thing"
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PostPosted: 00:30 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
And I was feeling bad because I spotted a bit of rust of some bolt on my bike Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 00:49 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
was the barn in pineapple under the sea?
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PostPosted: 02:24 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Speedo polished up nicely Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 07:15 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tyres might be ok 👹👺
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PostPosted: 07:54 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
That tank may need lining.
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PostPosted: 08:21 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
That's a curious definition of "complete".


That's exactly what I was thinking. Unless they're including a very large pile of rust.
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PostPosted: 09:23 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
thats not rust....its just a bit of welding flux isnt it?
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PostPosted: 13:19 - 26 Feb 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
The seller must be rubbing their hands together in glea at the thought of getting £550 (present bid) for that heap Thumbs Down
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