Its like riding a new bike compared to what it was like before the resto.
The wrong side-cover decal's where sent to me so hopefully I will have the correct ones soon.
This is the first project that I have not photographed during the build, but this is a quick rundown on how it went!!
As you would expect with most 29 yo bikes, especially a trials bike there was a lot of things that needed re-working.
The frame was stripped and where required repairs carried out, likewise the swing-arm. It was re-enameled in 'Ocean blue", which is only slighty darker than the Pernal blue of the original, but heaps better than the 'Suzuki blue' that it was painted with when I got it.
The stand mount and stand needed to be built back up and machined back to new specs.
The Falcon shock bodies went off to Don Newell who did the rebuild on, one new shaft and new seals, repainted springs and new bushes and they are like new.
The Betor front forks got a full service with new seals etc, the triple clamps where checked for cracks and repaired as required.
The engine was stripped of both paint and mechanicals, top-end decoked, and put back together newly painted with nice new gaskets, stainless steel bolts, and newseals, it had about 2 tubes of silicon on it when I bought it.
The Domino controls got refurbished, all the zinc was re-plated, I had to manufacture new foot pegs because the ones it came with could have been used to weigh a body down in a river!!
The hubs where stripped back along with the brake backing plates and re-painted, rims got a good clean up, front has a couple of flat spots but I'm not too fussed about them.
The Renthal bars where re-polished and the cross bar painted the same blue as the frame.
A new front guard was fitted to re-painted guard mounts.
The rear guard and side-covers where basically sound but had gone whitish. I removed all of the white and polished the plastic.
One of my mates recovered the seat, and its a truly magnificent job with SWM embossed into it. He drinks Gentleman Jacks, so that's what he got, and he definitely deserves it. Its awesome.
Using the original and very torn up bashplate as a template, I was able to replicate it in 4mm alloy, it looks horn.
The exhaust was stripped back and repainted with more fine PJ1 products.
During the strip down process, everything on the bike was checked for fit and function and sorted before moving on to the next stage. This ensured that when it went back together it fitted and worked.
A new fuel tap and inline filter fitted.
Even the ID plate, which had been painted at some stage came up nice and was re-attached after the frame paint was completed.
There is not a single item on the bike that has not received attention, even the tank badges have been re-enameled!!
Hopefully Martin(R2W) in the UK will reply to my e-mails and I can get the side cover decals shortly that should be on the bike.
I'm pretty stoked with the outcome and looking forward to some trials action, starting at Conondale next weekend.
Andrew
