Hi guys. I'm another new member, but been reading around here for about 6 months. Thanks very much for all the techy advice that's been posted up. I've learned a lot about my scooter from you guys. I'm really loving the bobber, cafe and scrambles styles crew are building.
I never really had an interest in cruisers and had only ridden a couple, just for fun, swapping around with friends on rides. But weirdly, one day I suddenly became convinced I needed to build a bobber. Why, I have no idea. I originally wanted a Yammy SR500 but they're rare in Australia and expensive, too. Googling around, I came across the Savage and saw what a cool bike they can become. So I started looking. And looking. This one's another rarity but finally found one after a year and a bit of looking. Got an 86 with 32000k on Ebay for $3500. It's far too much, I know, considering the stuff you guys in the states have available. Bikes are still pretty $$$ over here and as soon as they get old they get hit with the "collectible" stick. So it goes.... After a 1000km road trip to collect it on trailer it was mine. I gave it a big service (it hadn't been used for years. BTW I know the oil subject is a touchy one but I'm using plain old dinosaur car engine oil. The rotella you guys like isn't available here. I have an old Ducati Pantah I've done nearly 100000k's on, and a DR250 with 60,000 both run on car oil de jour and changed every 2500km. Both are like new on the inside.) and popped around town on it for a couple months, just getting the feel of it, finding out what needed doing. Imagine my surprise. Nothing needs fixing. Nothing's broken. It ALL WORKS!
. So I got into it. It's got flat drag bars, 4" pullback and HomeMade risers, chopped aftermarket triumph back mudguard with a (repro) Vincent/Velocette STOP light and chopped BSA front (still to be fitted). Of course the pipe has lagging on it, and an embarrassingly loud slashcut shorty. Gotta do something about that. It was a cheery looking candy apple red so I changed that to a more gloomy looking baby blue, which looks really cool. I pulled the clutch cover off a while back to check the tensioner (which I only knew of thanks to you guys) it had about 1/4" to go. So I copied the Verslagy mod (thanks
). I guess I'll get around to the fuel tap at some point as well. Meanwhile it's a really fun thing to cruise around on and is very unique. Nobody knows what it is, and no one else has one. It's great.
Thanks for reading and thanks for all the good advice and inspirations so far. Happy days.
simon