All of the posts from all of the projects are here.
Before I started writing this post I joked with a friend that the post was going to read like a sales pitch for Meguiar’s products. And I’m afraid it will, but purely because in my opinion their products did an amazing job. I don’t have […]
My aid to deciding which colour where. While my intention was to rebuild to factory specification’s, I early on decided I would allow myself the choice of colours for this bike. I realise this is a major transgression to a grommet watcher type of rebuilder […]
At the front end is an extension of the frame into the nose of the bikes fairing called the brace. While the brace has no complicated tech or moving parts, it’s influence over the outward look of the bike is almost total. It is the […]
While I was still feeling my way around a rebuild project, a Suzuki dealer whom I since have come to know quite well turns round and says “you know I was thinking I might still have an old rg round here somewhere….I’m sure I […]
It’s my first encounter with the “part can’t be got” situation on this project. Unfortunately, as far as I can find out, there’s a good chance that Suzuki never supplied this part as a separate item from the shock unit. What I am referring […]
I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to this part of the bike during the strip down, I suppose partly because it was removed early on and partly because it isn’t that complicated and appeared to be in good nick. However, when it was […]
Not so much a rebuild and more a rescue. The story behind this bike, at least with respect to it’s last owner, is remarkably similar to the Gamma. The previous owner had gone abroad some years ago leaving the bike in it’s used but relatively […]
While researching my option’s to deal with a rusty petrol tank problem that I had with the Gamma, I came upon a few bit’s of info suggesting electrolysis as a good way to deal with the rust. As I looked deeper into it however […]
My original plan is aborted. (isn’t it always…sigh). Since I had gotten the engine to run relatively easily (he says now that the bruises are fading), I thought I would leave the engine alone for this year (2011), aside from a bloody good cleaning […]
Similar to the thermostatic valve test only less thread and more wires. I still need the pot of water and the means to both heat the water and measure the temperature of the water in real time. I don’t want to totally submerge the probe […]