Project Ditch Salvage
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:08 pm
I'm having a contest with my 2 brothers called "Project 750" - Don't get excited - it doesn't mean I'm trying to fit three motors into one frame.
A date set, a location set. We’re not racing but we’re all leaving at the same time and whoever gets to the end first is the best.
The budget to procure a bike and get it on the road (doesn’t include the cost of insurance, tax and an MOT test) is £750. However, the 2nd rule is the genius of it.
To stop someone going out a blowing £750 on a knackered blade, the budget reduces by £1 for every cc of engine size. So you’ve only got £150 to buy a 600 with, or a massive £660 to buy and fit a nitrous kit to a h***a C90.
Anyway, this is a long preamble of how I came the proud owner of the ditch salvage. Liberated from round the back of some blokes mums house, where he had left it beside (sadly not under) a plastic sheet for 18months, following having low-sided it into a ditch. From the condition of it I think he may have left it in the ditch for a while.
Unsurprisingly some bartering on the price was conducted beacuase of the condition and I trailered it away into the sunset.
This is what it looked like when I got it home, except I had taken the tail piece off by the time I got the camera out. Apart from the time spent gathering moss, this machine had taken some serious punishment and mechanical abuse. The pictures make it look a lot better than it actually is!
Obviously the foot peg has gone, but look at the previous “repair” to the hanger!
Hmm that’s going to take more than solvol
This is not a slick, look really hard and you can see the remains of the tread. This was being ridden on the road!
So, It’s purple then - Oh, and the motor doesn't turn, I didn’t get a key, the steering lock is still on, there was no V5, the rest of the bodywork is in so many bits I took in away in tesco bags, neither wheel turns, the throttle seems to be seized, there’s no rear light (there’s not even a hole for one in the fibreglass single seat), the front tyre has tread but is perised and split, there's a family of spiders living under tha tank, which look like they've only recently evicted a gang of mice!
Hmm, hardly a bargain at £50. I’m starting to think I’m going to need about 3 times the £450 I’ve got left to get this back on the road.
With the budget I've got left this is not going to be a concours restoration.
Wish me luck!
As you can see from the dates on the photos, I've already starting work on this, but I won't post it all at once, it'll ruin the tension!
Oh, has anyone got a decent pair of forks they'd let me buy? Please?
A date set, a location set. We’re not racing but we’re all leaving at the same time and whoever gets to the end first is the best.
The budget to procure a bike and get it on the road (doesn’t include the cost of insurance, tax and an MOT test) is £750. However, the 2nd rule is the genius of it.
To stop someone going out a blowing £750 on a knackered blade, the budget reduces by £1 for every cc of engine size. So you’ve only got £150 to buy a 600 with, or a massive £660 to buy and fit a nitrous kit to a h***a C90.
Anyway, this is a long preamble of how I came the proud owner of the ditch salvage. Liberated from round the back of some blokes mums house, where he had left it beside (sadly not under) a plastic sheet for 18months, following having low-sided it into a ditch. From the condition of it I think he may have left it in the ditch for a while.
Unsurprisingly some bartering on the price was conducted beacuase of the condition and I trailered it away into the sunset.
This is what it looked like when I got it home, except I had taken the tail piece off by the time I got the camera out. Apart from the time spent gathering moss, this machine had taken some serious punishment and mechanical abuse. The pictures make it look a lot better than it actually is!
Obviously the foot peg has gone, but look at the previous “repair” to the hanger!
Hmm that’s going to take more than solvol
This is not a slick, look really hard and you can see the remains of the tread. This was being ridden on the road!
So, It’s purple then - Oh, and the motor doesn't turn, I didn’t get a key, the steering lock is still on, there was no V5, the rest of the bodywork is in so many bits I took in away in tesco bags, neither wheel turns, the throttle seems to be seized, there’s no rear light (there’s not even a hole for one in the fibreglass single seat), the front tyre has tread but is perised and split, there's a family of spiders living under tha tank, which look like they've only recently evicted a gang of mice!
Hmm, hardly a bargain at £50. I’m starting to think I’m going to need about 3 times the £450 I’ve got left to get this back on the road.
With the budget I've got left this is not going to be a concours restoration.
Wish me luck!
As you can see from the dates on the photos, I've already starting work on this, but I won't post it all at once, it'll ruin the tension!
Oh, has anyone got a decent pair of forks they'd let me buy? Please?
- what do you want - blood ? 
