Hi all

Hallo Aero,

so am i

here we are again.
nice to see the various sr/xt fora with a little memberexchange

best regards,
sjef

Hi Aero,

WQelcome to the site!

SR

Thanks for the welcome folks.

OK heres a picture I took the other day. The thing on the table is my self built bobber frame, still in progress. It has an XT lump in it, but I'm going use a the SR engine under the starirs as I want the XT one for a racer.

Next is my SR, a recent purchase, has a few niggles but I'm working through them.

Then my venterable old XS, had that a while now.

In the foreground is my other SR project. An ill advised purchase from eBay. The owner forgot to mention that it was at the time in the hands of a breaker and had lost a lot of parts. Still I like a challenge and cash changed hands. It doesn't even have a UK registration at the moment. I found an alloy tank and a nice V-D classics seat the other day. I've decided not to do it as a classic cafe racer, neither will it be shiny and polished. What it will be is well sorted and fully restored, highly rideable and with a hot motor. I want to use only secondhand cycle parts and give it a style of its own.

thats an immaculate XS mate, top little collection you have going there

That is a 76 XS. The first ones with the Tait mods to the frame. The earlier ones look nice but the handling is too scary for my liking. This one is as sorted as it can be without looking modified. There is a fork brace under the standard mudgaurd and the swing arm has bronze bushes. The front suspension will get progressive springs when I get round to it. The rear has hagon shocks, which are way more controlled then the standard ones. The matched Bridgestones also transformed it, well recommended.

I thought I had heaps of carb problems, until I changed the points for a Boyer. Now the 'carbs' stay in balance

I do still have a few age related with the carbs problems in that its difficult to start, but I am getting some new bits from Allens to try and cure this.