Resurrection Workshop: Episode 4 The Sports Tourer  

Aye 20yrs sat would require some work! We are working on one now that's been sat since 2005, wanted to make it ep5 resurrection workshop but we didn't have time to film it unfortunately. Would have made a good episode too. Keep hold of it, it'll make a cracking bike!

They were a great touring bike 👍 do you still ride?

@@rbmcstore2497 yes i still ride but no more with FJ1200 because i moved to other country (12 000 km far) and could not bring it with me (big regrets), and also because i'm getting old and being tall (6'5") my knees became incompatible with the riding position on FJ ;-).

Yeah, me too, but it was a low slide with minimal damage. It's a rat/survival bike now. More than can be said of my shoulder. Ouch!

They are 👍

Thanks! We have a few more videos on the way and in the process of filming another big one 👌

They are, not like today's bikes that are a nightmare to work on. Everything is so simple in comparison.

They were Great bikes, do you still have it?

@@rbmcstore2497 Yes still have it, it now on historic plates for rego

Thats a shame, what area are you located? I can still have a word with my driver in regards to a price if you like however a courier probably would be cheaper. Or using a more local garage that has a great name, word of mouth is usually best bet for a good mechanic 👍

@@rbmcstore2497 Hello. Thanks for your reply and apologies for my late response. Well I'm in mid Hertfordshire (St. Albans) and it's a long way from Darwen ( I know because I used to travel regularly from here to Lostock and Chorley). So although I was tempted it's sort of too impractical at that distance. I am (was) quite competent mechanically/electrically but my knees just don't like it anymore! If you know someone like yourself who's local to me I may be interested. Failing that maybe I could get some replacement knees!!

Cheers buddy 👍

Blackbirds are fantastic bikes! You can't do wrong with them 👍

Glad it helped, thanks!

If your doing carbs it's only 91'+ that was 3 turns out on the mixture screw, if i remember rightly 90'- was 2.5 i highly recommend getting a haynes manual, we got one for this job 👍

They were great touring bikes, How many times I've heard customers say they still had their old bike is crazy, I'll never get rid of my main bike.

Hi, no we didn't do this off camera, we had a limited budget to go off as it was a customers bike. We had to be careful how much we spent but I did explain to him to keep an eye on the fork seals as they will be a few years old now and rubber goes brittle over time. For now he wants to enjoy the bike, it's something we can do in the near future 👍

Let us know exactly what you want, what it's for and we'll do out best to source them at a great price 👍

They're in Darwen, just south of Blackburn in Lancashire.

Hi, we are Based in Darwen, Lancashire. We usually cover around the north west however we do have customers that travel quite far 👍

Something I do always recommend, they were however in great condition (almost new) and already spending a lot on other things so saving where we can for the customer ended up making a huge difference in cost and time. Its is something I always recommend however would make pretty much no difference with these sprockets.

Fair point. An awesome video on the maintenance of a great bike. 👍

@@ExFetteressowanderer Thanks 👍

The left side could be a few things, alternator, rotor, idle gear for the starter motor or something related to that, crank bearing, something loose e.g. bolt on the stator. The carb kits I got from WEMOTO they have a trade section WMD Parts 👍

It made a right mess of the carbs on my FZ1 (Fazer 1000) and I don't think I'd have got too far without an ultrasonic. Next up is a 1975 Yamaha DT250 that hasn't run for quite a while. The tank is just a block of rust internally so I've no doubt the ultrasonic will come in useful again.

We did actually, after we fitted them we vacuum balanced them, we have actually left quite a lot off camera as the original footage was over 40mins long. We took LOTS of footage out, the carburettor was actually broken and we replaced carb #3 with a replacement, we also kept this out to keep it around half an hour 👍

I didn't, we did thoroughly clean it out though, we had to keep a lot off camera to keep the time to a watchable amount. Also we did some work off camera as it takes up a lot of time to record work, our ultrasonic cleaner packed up, I'm looking for another one, any recommendations?

@@rbmcstore2497 there's an in depth review of that ultrasonic cleaner on RU-vid somewhere just type in the model number.

Yes the old sprockets were practically new, with no wear on them. Usually I replace as a set but there was absolutely no need to 👍

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