Yamaha Virago 535 - Our new project. First pictures of our new project (Supplied by its owner) Only 8546 miles if the speedo can be believed. First pictures of our new project (Supplied by its owner) Extreme corrosion in some places - but we can deal with it! Jo and Graham collected our latest project from the village of Garnant roughly 22 miles east of Carmarthen on the southern edge of the Black Mountains.  The lady that kindly donated it to us had last used it during Covid and it had stood idle outside the house ever since then. The log book indicated that when she bought it, it had had 7 previous keepers.  The speedo indicated that it had covered just over eight and half thousand miles. The ravages of the Welsh weather had done their damndest to ruin what was an attractive motorcycle and lots of work would be needed to bring it back to anywhere near its former glory.   In the workshop a battery was connected up and attempts were made to start the bike.  A...

  Kawasaki Z550 Now that he had insurance to ride the Kawasaki,  Keiran finally took it out for a ride on the road. Part way round the route it came to a halt and he feared he might need to be trailered back to the workshop. As you can see from the notes he made on the ride, it wasn’t a complete success. Never the less it was the first time in several decades that it had propelled someone over the tarmac.   One other worrying issue became apparent when it was wheeled back into the workshop and it was time to go home.  Keiran had filled the fuel tank right up for the first time since it had been lined and re-sprayed.  As Graham gave the bike a cursory glance over before moving on to other things, he noticed fuel dripping from the front left corner of the fuel tank.  There was no sign of anything leaking from the fuel tap, so the initial conclusion had to be that the tank itself was not fuel tight.   With Chris to assist him the fuel tank was...

  During a busier session…   Honda NS125F… Following its owner’s first visit to the work for a long while last Saturday, Keiran had fetched the bike back from our storage container. At this session Keiran, Phil R and Dave worked to try and find parts that had been removed from it some time prior to the Covid Pandemic. Once they had been rounded up an investigation began to work out what was what. A very rough looking petrol tank was found along with a variety of plastic components, which the team fitted together to make something resembling a Honda NS125F. The fuel tank was going to need a good deal of TLC to get it ready for re-spraying and all the plastic panels would need to be resprayed to get them in a fit state once again. A couple extra panels caused a lot of head scratching.  They looked as though they there were part of the fairing ,but no matter which way they were turned, or which side side of the of the bike they were held up again there seemed to be nowhere...