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Finally after too many years I'm working on my 500/4

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matthewmosse:
Spent more time diggng through the shed, found this adapted spare set of forks for the sidecar I made up years ago, saves me trying to fix the original forks just yet, the drill wants to wander off into the softer repair metal so I will eventually takle this by making a steel guide plate and using my proper centre drills that are smooth sided, that can wait, these forks my just prove a handy bit of prior preperation. Twin disk brakes operated off a gpz 1100b2 master cylinder at the moment, might change that for something that will look a bit more in keeping with a 500/4. I also noticed one of the seats has a different seat lock - pretty sure this was off my early 500/4, it had quite a few differences over my 73 and 74 bikes, throttle lock screw / cruise controll and wiring inside the bars being most notable of these. More photos to follow as and whe the computer says yes, right now it's gone back into sulk mode and will not save smaller immages, the site will not accept full size.

Bryanj:
RH seat in pic is the early K0 model and not common mate, has a totaly different lock

matthewmosse:
I did check the frame numbers on that 'spares' bike when I got it. I belive from what I could check at the time that it is a k0 bike. I noticed a lot of different features. It came with a dunstall exhuaust and apparently belonged to a mechanic who took it off the road for servicing 20 years ago, and left it partially stripped -small things like the rocker cover off. It cost about the same to get delivered as the bike cost, and is on a K plate. I dismantled it and put the bits in boxes the day it arrived.
I think it has just jumped a few places in the que to get rebuilt, oily rag resto again.

matthewmosse:
Some more photos, you can see how bad the seatbase is,belive it or not,saveable, ok it will not look mint, but with a afternoons work and a few coats of paint I reacon this will fit back on, feel fine to sit on and be at a glance, not too bad. I also dug out a fork brace that appears would fit a 500/4 - if the front mudguard were removed or heaviy modified, might suit some kind of cafe racer bike, I'm not sure. Interesting bit of kit, probably quite old as it has made in West Germany cast onto it. the exhaust stash has had a bit of examination. Current options looklike being laser, motad Neta, dunstall (if I can find the silencer) or a 4 into 1 slash cut setup off a chop. the bsm collector is a bit crusty  but the silencer is still solid. That is my favorite setup but not replaceable at all easily. It is the chrome one with 3 stubs out of the silencer in the photo. Sounds wonderfull if loud, and I love the look. I am really hoping to get time to try to replicate the collector back in new steel and get chromed as I love the look and sound.
Computer let me do 3 photos and is now again refusing to save downsized immages.

Lobo:
In our house, & much to my wife's dismay, "nothing is allowed to die"... I rewire it, stick it in a new frame, fibre-glass patch repair it & so on. (I'm not actually 'cheap'... such things just give me a kick...in fact I blame it in my dad; was bought up with a lovely big workshop..

Anyways Matthew, you've taken it to a whole new level (!) .... I would baulk at much of what you do, and rather admit defeat.

I too had an old seat base on my K2; and bought it back to Brunei for restoring. Bloody customs found it, and lifted it out.... darn... there was more of it in the bottom of my suitcase than in her hands.
"You must pay 25% tax on its value" she says..
"What's 25% of nothing", I ask?
She threatened to take it off me...
"No problem" I says... "Keep it"
Disgruntled she waved me through.... within the hour it was in the bin: just too far gone.

Hey ho...

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