Pinned Look what the postman brought today !

Yep, took around 1 week from India to me.. covered in light surface rust as it’s been sitting in a deserted factory for 3 weeks but I really had suspicions I was never going to see it..

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That's a lot of bubble wrap you have purchased. You can buy that locally you know.

 

In these current times, that was very quick delivery.

 

Yes but Indian bubble wrap comes with no associated demands that if India infects the world with a deadly virus, consequently puts half of it out of work and destroys the world economy, it will refuse to trade bubble wrap with us for wine, education, barley etc if we ask them what the#$%^ happened Much preferable bubble wrap methinks in the big picture

 

It’s going on a 1975 moto guzzi 850 t with a 1977 lemans motor complete with 960 wisico pistons. Building it into a 1974 750 s replica.. the bike is mainly all the parts that were replaced as I built my guzzi race bike over the years.

 

To say I was excited when I got home today was an understatement

I now have a clear title model A frame and I can properly start my build

 

Very tidy Honda CBX 250 in Wollongong for $1250. Comes with a pile of spares

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/wol...rce=com.apple.uikit.activity.copytopasteboard

 

Are you in Auckland?

 

Cheap little bore scope that uses my iPhone

$25 off eBay

 

Yeah I have one too, resolution is crap on mine did some research, and anything with decent camera costs a heap more, wot the heck, ya get what ya pay for

 

That’s all I got it for to check the bores among other things before I run it, did a comp check and didn’t have much at all, squirted oil down and it come right up, so I’d suggest the rings are stuffed and it’s been sitting a long while.

will take some pictures with it and post here to see what you guys think of this model, I mean for $25 I can’t complain

 

So here are a few picks

unfortunately the mirror attachment don’t fit inside the plug hole so seeing the bore ain’t an option at this point

but straight down shots work

although findings aren’t ideal, for research purposes and price the resolution seems pretty good to me

pics are of my suspect cylinder

and also inside the tank I bought, checking the weld line for rust