Kawasaki Z250A Scorpion...   Great piece of work from Steve on the brake discs of the Z250. The Z250 Twin was very much 'of its time', designed, back in 1975 specifically for the U.K market, where riding a 250cc motorcycle was permitted on L plates until you passed your test. The discs on this model were in an appalling state; rusty and corroded. Steve has worked out the rust and uneven surfaces and spray painted the middle. They now look like new! Similarly, the bolts holding in the discs were rusty. Having worked on the discs and brought new life to them, it would not be appropriate to reatach them back onto the bike with rusty bolts, and so these were placed in the vice, cleaned and a heavy duty PU lacquer was used, to give them a really impressive finish. Meanwhile, Graham was putting the carbs back together on the Z250. As he was doing this, he noticed that two plastic bungs that block off the holes giving access to the idle jets were missing. The absence of the bungs mean...

  Dnepr 650. Once again Graham was called upon to kickstart the bike into life and he succeeded where others had failed, most probably because not quite enough fuel had been added to the tank.  After a top up of fuel and a few more kicks the engine sprang into life, ticked over and allowed Annabelle to ride it up and down the side of the Chapel building.   There were some puffs of smoke from around the left hand cylinder head indicating that the cylinder head fastenings needed to be tightened up.  Annabelle also devised a nice solid clamp for the tail end of the left hand silencer.  The exhaust smoke was a little blue in colour indicating that some oil burning was going on.  This might just have been oil that had found its way into the silencers some previous time or it may have been indicative of worn valve stem seals.  It was unlikely to be piston ring related as the condition of the pistons rings on both pistons had been checked as part of the proce...