All post’s related to the frame, fork’s, wheel’s, suspension, swingarm and plastic’s.
(Originally posted 10-04-11) “Project has left the building” sounds much much better than it was, but still a milestone….. I rolled her out today……..out into the Irish spring weather, which was surprisingly dry and warm by the way. I realise I am jumping a little […]
How can a single piece of plastic be this much work… I hadn’t realised right away but the back end of the gamma was a little short. The back mudguard which by the way does a lot more than just guard against mud was about […]
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 […]
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 […]
The forks. When I first drove the Gamma, which was shortly after it arrived at my place, one of the many things I noted was that the front shocks while still going up and down were in a pretty poor way, with significant rust over […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]