I may just have to eat my words on this one.......... but time will tell !
I recently chanced upon this TLR200, along with matching donor carcase and picked it up for less than I paid for a TLR mudguard recently.
Sight unseen, closer examination says that it hasn't had a hard life, but not a whole lot of maintenance either ...farm bike.
Perhaps 10 years since ridden.... original tyres, but though frozen slightly, chain and sprockets seem recent.
So far I have ascertained it has great compression and spark. I've rectified the frozen front brake (shoes look newish)
and made a new chain guide block. Everything else is there and functioning as it should. Had to rat a few nuts and bolts from the carcase,
but I somehow think this has happened before.
The tank is absolutely spotless inside, so I reckon its clean the air filter, clean out and polish all the carby bits,
grease and oil all the bendy flexy moovey bits, chuck some fresh oil in and clean the filter..............
AND AWAY WE GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just in time for the annual NSW Southern Highlands Twinshock Picnic Ride !!!!!!!!
Will my luck last ???
Alastair