The Spares bike

 Bought to provide legshields, fuel tank, saddle, bar levers, front rack (for sale), any cables cylinder and head.










Front rack attaches at the horn bracket and muguard brackets.



Legshields attached at the pivot bolt on fr wheel (shared with the fr mudguard stay) and also at the fr mudguard bracket.

Carrier Removed and scraped off cracked plastic coating. Resprayed in white hammerite for sale.


Carburettor cleaned and resmassembled for sale. This was the type 1 E8 carburettor  used on early models.

















Sonicated and reassembled for sale.


Front wheel removed... brakexshoes and hub in ok condition, rims and spokes really rusty. I stripped the hub to obtain the speedo drive gear.





Motor
 I wanted to remove e the cylinder and headxwithout removing thexrear wheel as the bike becomes unstable. Altjough I made good progress in the end it proved impossible as I couldnt remove the camshaft spindle which was obstructed by the wheel.














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