Lol lol BPT - it has taken an enormous amount of money - and untold hours of elbow grease on my part - to get it to this stage so far.
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I have to admit that I'm at my happiest when I in the shed tinkering away. The downside is that it's in a friend's garage so I can't just walk out of my door and go faff about with it. But I am lucky that my friends let me take over half there garage space to do the work.
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I'll get there eventually - if I could gave a good week health wise I could get it mostly finished. I'm hanging out for the sunshine and heat to return 😊😉🙃

I'm with you, Adrian. I don't have a garage at the moment so I usually go to my parents' place as they have a large, clean one. But that means I have to do projects a little at a time so I don't end up having to leave it.  They're about 20 minutes drive away so not super far. But, like you, I can't just go back and forth too easily if I wanted to leave it.

But if you think you've only got a couple of weeks work to go, I'd say you're in the home stretch. Almost there.......  .!

Okay time for some update pictures - still things to do of course - but I'm hoping to at least start her soon - I hope you enjoy them .....

A long journey and a great job Adrian!

Today - after more than 4 years - I started the old girl up and ran the motor for a couple of mins - nothing exploded or went bang - and all the new wiring for the Acewell worked too - it seems I might actually know what I'm doing lol lol lol 

Well done Adrian

Looking for the first ride report and your impressions of the 860cc kit (Mine remains in its box for the present). But Wilcom will be pleased to hear that 2 years after I bought it form him I have stripped the 32:10 final drive and am about to put new bearings and seals in it and re-shim.

wilcom wrote on 05/18/18 at 22:05:18:


Don't feel sorry Wilcom, I was *always* going to put a bearing and seal kit through it, after all that FD is at least 40 years old now. I'm sort of leaning towards keeping my R65, albeit customised my way. The upper K100 plastic has now been sent for repair, the next step will be to see if the RS/RT "side skirts" around the cylinders can be mated to the K100 fairing - the mounts most certainly do not line up but the actual parts look like they might, a question of bracketry.

I've just about committed to using a K100 tank as well, again a question of fabricating the brackets to fit. I'm hoping that the end result will be a reasonably powerful, decent looking, well handling confection that will cause curiosity and consternation wherever airhead owners gather. The only other modification I'm considering is a Monolever rear end from an early model G/S mated with the final drive from an R80- this would let me use (after modification) the K100 rear wheel so that my wheels will match. I may consider using a paralever rear end, but one will have to fall into my hands as I'm not about to mortgage a kidney for one.

One thing that has given me pause for thought was corresponding with an Australian Guy who has fitted a turbo-charged R100 engine and gearbox to a K100 frame - the end result being pretty much where I want to get to with significantly less fabrication..... Options, options.


Adrian, sorry for this in your thread, if anyone wants to discuss my thinking further let's move to a more appropriate conference.