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Welcome to the forum, I'm another newbie, but found the forum really useful so far, Enjoy!

Hello Sir KH, Don't think I can PM yet as not enough posts, I bought the de-greaser from Booker (it's a wholesale place, you have to have a business to get an account) It's called H1 degreaser from a company called clean pro. They also had a deep fat fryer cleaner which I reckon would have worked pr...

Those look Bloody great! What was the colour you got them anodised in? Did you strip the paint yourself?

Looking great Lloydie, the cans are spot on. Really work well with the seat!

Sir-knob-head wrote:What did you use to remove all the gum? I use steam and degreaser but it takes a while

I went to a wholesale place and bought an industrial kitchen de-greaser imaginatively named hn32 or something. Still took a while but worked pretty good!

Hi Ant. "...Ducati "Mono Posto" seat .." I'm looking at alternative single seats units - is your Duc one easy to fit to standard frame?? Anyone else tried any others before? Which are good'uns? Cheers :problem: Hello Smiley, I didn't fit it myself but looked easy enough, it fits...

sirch345 wrote:Removed posts that were starting to go off topic slightly and clogging up Ant's build thread can be continued here:-
http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 03#p408003

Chris.

Cheers Chris!

So, made a bit of progress over the weekend, here's what the engine looked like before cleaning: http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/ant_cg/2016-01-23%2010.33.57_zpszwiisb0j.jpg http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/ant_cg/2016-01-23%2010.34.16_zpsrcimgbc2.jpg Pretty nasty in places, I think...

Sir-knob-head wrote: Either a hyper pro spring or shock. They do progressive kits which are much nicer IMHO Ahh Cheers Just the spring then, the shock is a showa one! Sorry Fabio keeping that one, although got to agree, purple is out! Right I'm off to the workshop armed with de-greaser update later!

fabiostar wrote:good luck with the build Ant, it looks like you have a decent bike to base it on..... except for the purple shock which of course i would be interested in lol

What is that purple shock, not the standard one I'm guessing?

Cheers for the advice Sir KH I'll look them up!

sirch345 wrote:I look forward to seeing how you go with this, good luck

Chris.

So do I!!!

that's looking good.I got a 1200 bandit that i streetfightered up for sale and a pal of mine is coming round for it tomorrow morning.So i shall be putting all my biking miles on the vtr.Will be sorry to see it go but i don't get time to ride one bike let alone two.Good luck with your project. P.S.w...

That'll look great. The last project of mime was an xj600 cafe racer. Period looking with controlled rust. Straight through pipes and spokies. If uou ever went to Rye you would have seen / heard it there Good luck to you bud. I do fibreglass so if 7ou need custom stuff lemme know Cheers Sir KH, Onl...

Hello, So.... I got my self a Storm two weeks ago, here's what she looked like when I got her: http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/ant_cg/2016-01-16%2009.19.47_zps8w7djwm2.jpg http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/ant_cg/2016-01-16%2009.19.57_zps0dpf3sa6.jpg It was written off a few years ag...