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R.B.
 Post subject: Here's a couple . . .
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:25 pm 
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Fresh off the production line :thumbup: I rarely manage to find the time to do full restorations myself nowadays, but I wanted to build something as near to perfect as you could get, a lot of hours and painstaking effort went into One of these bikes . . . please fell free to criticise - you won't offend me :thumbup:
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Ja-Moo
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:29 pm 
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ou have cyclebuster do the restores?............. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Zambia
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:02 pm 
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Lovely bikes! I haven't actually compared...but do the shocks on the purple bike (US spec) have one coil less than OEM? The repops always look more stretched out to me..
Do you have shots of the gauges and dashboard?
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R.B.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:07 pm 
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Zambia wrote:
Lovely bikes! I haven't actually compared...but do the shocks on the purple bike (US spec) have one coil less than OEM? The repops always look more stretched out to me..
Do you have shots of the gauges and dashboard?

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Shocks on U.S. Bike are aftermarket - U.K. bike has original rebuilt ;)
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BarryB
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:15 pm 
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are the yellow paint marks a normal factory thing?

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AER005
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:17 pm 

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looks pritty bloody good to me :thumbup: :thumbup: , not that Id know its not a 72 :cry:
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R.B.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:35 pm 
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BarryB wrote:
are the yellow paint marks a normal factory thing?

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Yep, all late '74 bikes and every '75 bike SHOULD have the yellow marks on any safety item, however, every once in a while a dealer (or rather, the mechanic) failed to put them on when they had assembled and checked them from the crate though :roll:

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malc87
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:37 pm 
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I thought you said you had corrected all the faults (4) we found on the red one ;)
Im looking at the yellow dot on the rear tyre side wall :o

Quality ,quality work Rick :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

And hope you have changed those "zinc plated " clamps I found holding the wires down at the rear end under the seat :thumbup:
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R.B.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:44 pm 
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malc87 wrote:
I thought you said you had corrected all the faults (4) we found on the red one ;)
Im looking at the yellow dot on the rear tyre side wall :o

Quality ,quality work Rick :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

And hope you have changed those "zinc plated " clamps I found holding the wires down at the rear end under the seat :thumbup:

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All "faults" were corrected within 24hrs . . . . and I wish I hadn't told you about the freaking tyre!

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malc87
PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:49 pm 
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Every day is a learning day! :silent:

Im just amazed at how much of the SOOOOO fine detail you have learnt :thumbup:
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