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evening/morning all,

finallyfinallyfinally I have bonded with the TY!

It happened on Saturday at RTC practice track.

All of the piston/leb/clutch/swing arm shimming/wheel bearing/chain slider/carb rebuilding/etc/etc trauma has paled into insignificance.

It just all 'clicked' and I now love riding this bike - talk about slow burn!

A big up for the other members of the RTC, namely - boghopper, benboss and alex-de-beta for the ongoing support/p*ss taking :D

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under the silver frame paint, there is blue paint; not sure if it was painted bultacosaurus blue as a finish coat, or if the blue is an undercoat for the silver. As you can see, the bike is far from mint, but its had lots of bits and bobs done by previous owner/s (kickstart fix, gear change fix, foot pegs from sammy miller, new fork legs etc)

the last headache was the airbox; layers of old flaky paint getting into the carb .................... I ended up burning it all off with mrs shipdamites blowtorch and giving it a couple of coats of satin smoothrite (I havent used the satin finish before and it looks much better than the full gloss)

at some point (not too soon [hopefully]) I will need to find a barrel that I can rebore for a nice new oem piston .............. sure that my cheapo piston is cause of some of the rattles.

cheers

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