Well I have done some work on the bike today. I have fully destickered it, gone over the bike thoroughly to see what mechanical work needs doing (front tyre needed and possibly a rear spocket carrier bearing although not to certain on that. Also need to pack out the cush drive rubbers as these are shot). Cleaned up the rear wheel spokes with autosol, had a closer inspection of the swing arm and washed the bike and polished it just for fun! Straightened the bent chain guard and removed an inch of gunk under it as well! Meach said there was a new chain and sprocket kit on it and now I have cleaned it you can see it looks very new and very nice in gold.

Going to start cleaning up the headers tomorrow and order an engine service kit and front tyre.

Heres a few images of the bike as it looks now, still needs lots of degreasing around the swing arm and engine so I will take it to work and steam clean it this week before I strip and remove the swing arm. I will regrease all the linkage bearings whilst its down that far. Just got to work out how to hold up the bike whilst the swing arm is off.

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