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That strange tank and seat combo.

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:46:20 +0000

Hi Dave, Daniel, Mark, Hello Carolina, here’s the pics… Iphone is not that good, so I’ll xplain below.

TANK:
can be described as tip top shape. Is fiberglass but light. Some hairlines cracks in the top of tank surface, inside clean (still a bit of oil in it, underneath is as new, tank cap is dented (of course). I don’t know what it is off. Will fit A/B frame like my racer no prob, will require frame amendments if you use a C/D like the blue bike (tank rear mounting points tits need to be ground down. One v small nick at the front (frame down tube… no prob)

Front mounts fit the std RD arrangements (2 bungs). RD tap fitted… So up for grabs. Good piece of kit and deffo not seen as often as an Airtech one.

SEAT:
Has had a racing life. 1st pic from below, you’re seeing the RH side crack. That’s the most important and need some Fglass to it a there is a gap and some tension there. LH side has a small crack and there is the usual hairlines on the top. It’s all very repairable and comes with the nifty seat brackets the guy had done in alloy (one of them bent… guess the side). Alloy fasteners and spacers included.

SHOCKS:
strange double spring entrapments, with “RC-10 HD” Damping force: Ten: 140kg / 0.5 m/s Comp: 27kg / 1.0 m/s” and the all-important “Made in Japan”. All on the body sticker. Somebody tell me if it’s a piece of unobtainium. Rust spots on upper prtion of shafts sadly, but they seem to be out of the travel of the shafts (I can see where the wear marks stop ie chrome is slightly duller on travel path) still, they need a repaint and a bit of work at the minimum. 5-way adjustable, too.

Rearsets plates and pegs I wiil probably get a use for them… so not up for grabs.
Need to check if std throttle will work with the 34 carbs as the guy made an alloy distributer.
Throttle is a Domino, not magura 1/4 turn. Italy means “racing”, so could be worth something to one of ya.

Click on the pics for Blow-ups and leave me a comment in the box below the post… At least I receive those and yours are likely not be about Viagra.

Replacement Brake disks for the LC and the Aircooled RD

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:23:51 +0000

A bit of trawling around the workshop unearthed theses disks. I took them when helping in the local bike breakers.
They are Yamaha SR 125 disks, have the same outside diameter as the LC and the aircooled RD.
The dish depth is the same as the LC but that means they are 6 mm lower than the aircooled.

A 3mm spacer should sort that.

They’re also drilled and lighter by design.

Finally found and RD 350

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:02:02 +0000

By chance, somebody was selling this in the classified:

The guy used to race it in the US, and being an engineer, did some tasty modifications to it. Interestingly, the motor has no #, only the type is stamped in. This normally means replacement cases. It’s also got a Piranha ignition fitted and pipes seem to be FPP (Factory).

Only prob and it’s a big one: it hasn’t got a title which could mean I won’t be able to register it for the road.

Strange Seat

admin — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:44:55 +0000

I picked this bike for the seat and the motor… I ‘ll soon have a Gold Rd250B with missing jugs and I thought it would be a good idea to have a few spares.

I really like the seatz and how it looks. It’s all shot now, ‘fcourse, but the printing and the using the original mounts, the strips make me think it could be a Yam Accessory. Did these exist? or is it a shop special?

and this might be my next project, not a dent on it, a bit of rust, not even stuck!
Is this the Brigade Blue? It is spunky!

EDIT: It seems it is a Guilliari.