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Project Popup

I've acquired a 1985 GSX750SE3 Katana Popup for the princely sum of $1.

I'm going to try and do it up the old fashioned way - without opening up the wallet as much as I can.

Restoring this bike is going to be done through hard work in the gargre with as much work as possible done by me.

  1. Had a nice chat on the phone today

    with a man called Gerry Foon at VTNZ Adelaide Road.

    As I have the previous rego number, and the frame number and engine numbers all check out nicely, and we can establish that the bike was deregistered February 1997, it's going to be a piece of piss to get it reregistered.

    I need to do four things:

    1. Restore the bike to wof standard (d'oh!);
    2. Get a receipt of sale from the previous owner who deregistered it, or failing that, confirmation from the police ...
  2. New forks found... brakes should clean up okay.

    Buckets and Bits have some forks for a pop-up there. Sounds a better plan than trying to regrind and rechrome the stanchions in these ones.

    Pulled the brakes apart and good news - there's heaps of meat on the pads so they should be good. All the bolts came undone nicely - which never happens on my RF and with a bit of work I managed to get all the rust and crap out of one of the calipers, so with a bit of work I reckon they'll be looking good.

    I figure I'll go for the sandpaper ...