Feckin’ fiddly job this. The carburetor had to be cleaned up a bit when I first got the bike just to get the engine to run, so I reckoned it could do with a proper deep cleaning to be sure of running right and […]
Jun 182012
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May 232012
The front end. The steering stem. The steering stem is quite a simple section of the bike and I couldn’t write much about it, but because it was the first part to be reassembled after stripping and painting and because there is a deviation from […]
May 182012
The frame and assorted ironmongery. The frame as I mentioned elsewhere was rusted all over. For reason’s I can only guess at, the area around the HT coil at the back of the steering stem was particularly bad.. and of coarse the swing-arm and monoshock […]
May 162012
Temp gauge full scale when head light’s are on… I’m driving at low speed in town in the rain and I suddenly realise my engine temperature gauge has gone full scale. I pull in, fearfull of an engine sieze, thinking I have lost my coolant […]
May 042012
Bikefest 2011. Last year (2011) I thought since I was such the born again biker, that I would head to a rally somewhere. This was before I had a running bike of my own of course, but no matter. I originally set my sight’s […]
Apr 302012
And so it begin’s. As you will see in the next few picture’s, which where taken by the previous owner just before I picked it up, the bike I am starting with appears quite complete, except I’m not sure about the front sticker’s, I […]
Apr 122012
The motorbike above is a catelogue example of a Suzuki Rgr125 Gamma (I have never seen that colour scheme in the flesh myself). The last version of this model was apparently in production in 1988 and was produced with small, mostly country specific mod’s untill […]