Stupidity " dirtbike content "

[Screwdriver]

I have a french friend who owned a road legal cr500 in supermoto trim with intermediate slicks on etc. He's not got it now but is still suitably off his box.
I met him originally because we both own kawasaki 750 turbo's, which is about the closest to a road legal 2 stroke in power delivery you could get, except the lunacy happens at higher speeds.
Still have the kawasaki's though they're getting restorable and collectable now, which always spoils the fun a little and brings out the gerald's in chunky sweater types to argue over if they're painted the correct shade of red etc.

Screwdriver, new crank seals and usual stuff, fresh boots because they'll be like rock hard like nails and gone off if its been laid up for a few years, take it easy at first because you probably have forgot a little how rabid they are, it might wind back the clock for you a bit I hope! I gotta do the same with my bimota yb8, because finally its old enough to legally re-register here via the classic registation route.

It will be some time before either of them err, hit the road so to speak.

One is a steelie, road registered ripped the front sprocket shaft off, former owner field stripped it to see if he could make a repair (!). That's scattered to the four corners of the earth in various boxes. The other is an alloy frame conversion I got half way through before it too scattered. IIRC, that one had a bent crankshaft which I distinctly recall having paid to be refurbished but apparently lost forever.

One of the problems is that there were quite a few distinct models over the years and parts are not always readily interchangable. I remember having issues just making sure I was buying the correct widget. Made even more difficult if that particular widget is missing in the first place.