Restoration?

Lol.....................please try to get your facts correct you
clueless ****!

 

What a fucking gash site.

 

I know of at least 4 accident damage repair idiots who also mess
around with bikes................and would imagine as the low end car
resto stuff has gone tits up at the moment, that a fair few of these
types are probably messing with bikes too.

But I would imagine that few if any of these car people have any of
the skills required to do top class bike work.

 

Err....

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip Luscher

Oh now be fair!

crn's not a troll.

He's too fucking stupid to be a troll.

 

Direct hit on your pointy fat head there Chrissy. Such a shame you
couldn't defend yourself in the small claims court, Oh how we
laughed. Care to tell the nice people why you were sectioned and had
to sign that nasty register?

 

Since when has TIG welding been a required skill for bike repair?

 

No, thought not.

 

Heh. Nailed.

 

ROFL

 

<Evil's advocate mode>

I dunno. I think this depends on your own skill level. I've got no
qualms about pulling an engine to bits, but I haven't got the skills
nor the equipment to repaint, let alone re-chrome, parts. Someone else
might find paint a doddle, but be incapable of removing a spark plug.

Certainly good tinware for Jap classics is very expensive now: I
recently sold a (superb) rear mudguard for a 400 Four for £180. But
that's because it's very hard to make good copies of things like
mudguards: you need custom-made machinery to reproduce the curves and
the rolled edges, for example. And a lot of mechanical stuff does hold
together well, and is perfectly good decades later.

If you blew the top end on your Honda CB750 in 1975, and just stashed
the thing in an unheated shed, the gearbox (for example) would be
perfectly usable even now, whereas the paint and chrome would have
suffered. It's much easier to find good used mechanical parts than it
is original paint and tinware: £180 is not far short of what I'd sell
a complete functioning Honda 400 Four engine for.

But where there's a demand, someone will make a product to meet it.
Did you know you can buy Chinese-made replica 400 Four tanks now, on
eBay? Sold in primer.