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Rozabikes Tim:
That engine looks the dogs. The pinch in the tail pipe on these as it exists the silencer makes me wince. Can't afford to loose any of those 8 ponies.

Get well soon.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
That looks seriously clean Dave, very impressive build.👍👍👍

Laverda Dave:
Some progress.

I have now stripped the old scabby paint from the tank and found three previous minor dents. TBH I was expecting to find a lot of filler considering the rest of the bike but was pleasantly surprised with what I found. The inside of the tank hasn’t rusted following the good old DEOX-C treatment followed by a drop of diesel swished around the tank to keep it oiled. I’m taking the tank, side panels and headlight rim to Tony at CycleSprays today for its repaint.
Diego (Reddice on here and a site sponsor) has produced a set of tank and side panel decals to his usual immaculate standard.

Peter Horton the master of the clock has overhauled the original MPH speedo that came with the bike and has also found a set of lamp holders. The top bezel was badly dented, the lower bezel was missing and the case had a nasty dent that couldn’t be knocked out. Ash as usual came to the rescue (as he does with most of my restorations these days) and obtained a used JDM KPH speedo for sale in Japan (along with the all important exhaust heat shield that are made of rocking horse poo). Ash sent the KPH speedo to Peter who swapped all the missing and damaged bits over from the KPH to the MPH speedo, an absolute master of his craft.  The JDM KPH speedo can hopefully be sold on, no use for it in blighty.

I also collected the chrome plating a couple of weeks ago from Ashford Chrome Plating, their usual excellent job, you can swim in the depth of the plating!

Next week it’s going to be the assembly of the chassis.

Rozabikes Tim:
Good work Dave. Hope your mate ain't going to ride this off road as it will look brand new!

Was the kick start knuckle all good as tend to hit the foot peg when people don't lift it as they should!

Laverda Dave:
The knuckle was fine Tim. Maybe the previous owner also had a 400/4 and he knew the damage that could be inflicted on a knuckle when you fail to lift the footrest up!
I went into the garage earlier today to do some work and walked straight out again, it was 36c in there 🥵.

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