After playing with the bike a bit Dad and I managed to get the silver bike turning over, though to be completely honest it was mostly dad with the help of Start Ya Bastard. Anyway since "Silver" turns over thats the one that will get a majority of attention at this stage.
First things first I removed the hideous luggage rack... and then continued to remove the front cowl, seat, side covers, rear fairing and tank. The tank is completely rusted out so a new one will have to be sourced. The front cowl is damaged but from the looks of it can be saved, even though at a later date I plan to remove this completely and simply have a headlight and the gauges, I still need to get it on the road so repaired it shall be. Seat will need to be recovered but other then that everything looks like its in good condition.
With most of the bike stripped down it was then covered in a fair amount of degreaser and hosed down. Its still dirty from years of sitting in a shed but should polish up nice. In the future it will be stripped back to bare frame so parts can be powder coated and painted but before that happens I want to get it running for a little bit.
We then set about pulling the carburetor out, after a good 50 minutes of struggling and trying to work out how the bloody thing comes out, success! It looks salvageable the main problem is the side linkage (I have no idea what its called) keeps jamming in the open position and doesn't move freely. If that can be addressed there shouldn't be any issues. As a back up though "Red" has a perfectly good Carburetor which we can use.
"The hole where there was once a carburetor"
After that their wasn't a lot more that could be done so I set about removing the hand grips and mirrors since they were rotting anyway. The right mirror it seems had been cross threaded at some point so was simply snapped off. As I'm planning to replace the mirrors with bar end versions this didn't bother me too much. The levers also need to be completely replaced. It was at this point that I decided to sit down and make a list of parts to look out for as well as record the VIN, colour code, handle bare measurements, etc.
"The corroded levers, they look a lot worse up close and since they can be replaced cheaply thats what I'm going to do"
Not a bad start even though the hard stuff hasn't quite yet begun.
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