I have decided to go a very alternative route.
Seems that what we have here is a bike designed a VERY long time ago that has had virtually no development since the original model. Instead of going tourer, racer, ratbike, cafe racer ( strange reading of "cafe racer " nowdays. When they were original a thing , the idewa was to make it light and powerful and handle and look like a current racing bike. Now it means "look like and ancient racing bike...but I digress), I am going to rebuild the bike so it is more like a bike I would build in I were the designer of this type of bike now. I will use most of the base bike and improve anything I think needs upgrading or just plain because I can. Not going for mega performance but I intend to upgrade the suspension and get the motor running as right as it can be.
What I will also be doing is replacing any parts that are old design and heavy with made lighter parts, replacing the gauges with an electronic unit, shortening the seat ( single seat registration requirement), upgrading all lights to leds and fixing the extremely poorly maintained parts ( ie the rear caliper had no pad on one side and the piston had ground into the disc...).
Started at 185kg. Lets see where we get. I will post on the project area. soon
Greg Jet
