I've been lurking for a few weeks but thought it was time to raise my head and show Project Lockdown 2.
Work has been almost non-existent over the last few months, so to keep me out of trouble I picked up this old girl as a random Sunday morning eSkip purchase....
It'd been stood for 8 years and it showed - seized carbs and rear brake, rusty tank internals etc., but the sum of the component parts certainly made it worth saving.
It turned out that I actually knew the seller, having done a load of work for him a few years ago and he was really pleased that I'd bought it and am planning to do classic track days on it. He advised that it was a race bike in a previous life, where in the documentation that he sent there is info that the head was fettled by Pete Beale, the pipe was made by Peter Gibson and it was chucking out a very solid 148bhp at the wheel on Peter Gibson's dyno (although it had FCR41 carbs then, but sadly they're long gone....).
Bike as received with R7 bodywork: -
Work in progress: -
So, after only a handful of weeks we got to this point. Suspension rebuilt front and back, covers off the motor to have a peek inside, wiring sorted etc. etc....
The seller also advised a couple of weeks after I'd received the bike that he'd found another set of bodywork which was more period and in-keeping with what I was after, and this is about where we are now. It just needs a pair of tyres, the weather to improve and classic track days to recommence!
Pete Beale's handywork: -
