Hi All,

I've recently acquired 'well loved' 1987 as a retro plaything, so this seems to be the place to join !

Ian.

 

Hi Ian and welcome to the forum

 

Welcome. I lived in Cambridge and we visited Canterbury (along with everywhere else in the UK as my dad was an archaeologist and loved history). I vaguely remember it being a nice town although that could be from seeing pictures. That was 1976 so never had a chance to ride a motorcycle there. Hope you have fun with it.

 

Hi Spagey, welcome to the forum.

What model did you get, any pictures?

 

Hi,

The bike is a late 1987 in original blue/silver with 74,000miles on the clock.
Mechanically it all seems pretty good, and the engine is pretty quiet

It's charging Voltage was a bit low, due to one phase in the rectifier being blown, and there was a hareline frame crack by the left engine mount on the main spar. But 5 mins with the mig and a new rectifier fixed those - which I have since read are quite common issues

Idle was a little on the lumpy side, so stripped and cleaned the carbs, then reset air screws and did a static balance with a pair of 'calibrated' matched screwdrivers down the throats.

Sweet idle of 1300 from cold to hot - whch is nice.

Next on the list, tyres. It's on old BT45 that are a bit past their use by date, so considering some of the new Bridgestone RS10...

Ian

 

welcome Ian, from sunnyish whitby
jeff

 

With any luck the magic of digital photography may result in some sort of visible things...




Ian

 

Nice bike Ian

 

Nice.