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Well, about time I started a build thread on this. I had to let the bike sit while I was away at school, but managed to get a hack at it the other day and start pulling it apart to clean a few things up. This is how the bike looked when I picked it up:
So I decided to follow the advice of Geeto and just clean the bike up and replace failing parts and ride it for a while before going on with a full cut up build. After going through a few things I realized the last guy to work on this bike was kind of an idiot. Bolts are put in backwards (not sure how they came to that conclusion), some header bolts were missing so the guy decided to screw in some long screws with nuts on them to tighten the header clamp down, and just odd ball fixes over the bike.
Taking a look at the wheels, looks like some rust on some spokes, but the rust brushes off pretty easy. Still should probably replace the spokes, but we'll se how it comes when I get them cleaned up.
The forks were a complete bitch to get out. Had to pound them out with a mallet and this is what I found the state to be in:
Not really sure what I should do with them. Rust looks like its just over the part where the tree holds them and not over where the seals move over, so I'm sure functionally they are fine. What do you all think?
Couple shots of the over all.
Gonna take the triple tree off and take a look at the bearings here soon. I'll be getting to that in a few days. If any of you have suggestions of things I should look at while I'm in there feel free to let me know. I'm new to old bikes, so I need all the pointers I can get.


So I decided to follow the advice of Geeto and just clean the bike up and replace failing parts and ride it for a while before going on with a full cut up build. After going through a few things I realized the last guy to work on this bike was kind of an idiot. Bolts are put in backwards (not sure how they came to that conclusion), some header bolts were missing so the guy decided to screw in some long screws with nuts on them to tighten the header clamp down, and just odd ball fixes over the bike.
Taking a look at the wheels, looks like some rust on some spokes, but the rust brushes off pretty easy. Still should probably replace the spokes, but we'll se how it comes when I get them cleaned up.

The forks were a complete bitch to get out. Had to pound them out with a mallet and this is what I found the state to be in:

Not really sure what I should do with them. Rust looks like its just over the part where the tree holds them and not over where the seals move over, so I'm sure functionally they are fine. What do you all think?
Couple shots of the over all.


Gonna take the triple tree off and take a look at the bearings here soon. I'll be getting to that in a few days. If any of you have suggestions of things I should look at while I'm in there feel free to let me know. I'm new to old bikes, so I need all the pointers I can get.