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Spitfire:
Somewhere around 1992 we switched to 12 hour shifts at work so 4 on 4 off became the norm, so I wanted something to tinker with on my days off, in the back garden next door to a friends was a bike which turned out to be a 750 Honda so I bought it as a project.
This is it at the start of the stripdown

I always like the MV Augusta racing bikes so decided to have an all red bike, Vauxhall red was my choice of colour, Halfords rattle cans providing the paint.


Clip ons and rearsets, the old formula, and an Alpha 4:1 was purchased for the finished "masterpiece".
A Power Bronze seat was also bought to complete the look.

The top end was overhaulled, new pistons, rings, valves, valve springs and the engine cleaned up and painted, ready to be installed.
But it was not to be, in 1994 I got a job on a refinery start up in Thailand and we left these shores for the next 10 years

Cheers

Dennis

Lobo:
Gawd Dennis, you were serious about the red - even the clocks got a coat 😂!

Spitfire:
Even the switchgear on the handle bars got painted, no messing about.
This was the engine ready to go back into the frame pictured during the F1 restoration.

When we got back home in 2004 we spent quite a bit of time catching up with the house and having an extension built, but eventually I got round to looking at the F1, it had spent 10 years covered in grease under dust sheets in the garage.
So I thought a quick service and away she would go, this is how she looked

And in more detail

So two years were spent on restoring the F1, during which time I "hoovered up" lots of parts for both the F1 and F2.
But the F2 always nagged at me, in 2015 I had a heart attack and this year my 70th birthday, this concentrated my mind quite a bit so rather that let my kids skip a load of old motorbike parts when I shake off this mortal coil I decided to gather all the parts, refurbish them and build the F2 back so at least it was a complete bike.
This was going to be a "budget" restoration unlike the F1 so while the weather was warm some Halford rattle cans of gloss black and primer were purchased.
Plus wet and dry, Brillo pads, paint stripper and other useful stuff.
The various parts were then cleaned, sanded down and given a coat of primer.
More soon

Cheers

Dennis

Spitfire:
So on with it, the frame was cleaned up, sanded down and primed

Then given a coat of Halfords finest gloss black, it still needs polishing but looks good.

Then a trip into the loft to retreive some parts, I've forgotten whats aup there so there was some surprises.



I'm trying to get all the paint on while the weathers still warm.

Cheers

Dennis

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Interesting read - had Halfords sold out of red so you've done the frame in boring black !

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