In 1966 I bought my first bike, a Suzuki 150 twin 2-stroke.  It was black and the body design was very much like the bike shown.

Got the first testride of the bike now that some of the snow melted.
Front mudguard is useless... I think i'll put the old one back on, looks is one thing, getting all wet from the knees down is another.

I think drivebelt is squeaking... did i tighten it too much?

Also ordered an 18Ah bigger battery. It will take up the space of the chrome box but I don't like chrome too much anyway.

I think i'll install heated grips for this Elefantentreffen ride... any advise on those? Never had one. Is Oxford Ok? Apart of that I see a swarm of suspiciously cheap stuff online.

Hi Jcstokes! I do not mind a bit of Jawa talk, after all the rear end of the Savage is from my old Jawa 634. And you are absolutely right, export models were better quality. (We needed dollars badly to buy electronics that we could not make, eh?) Mine was 1982, and i think for domestic (aka communist) market they were kept in production till '84. The engine itself was not too bad, in fact people often used clutch and gearbox from 632-634 in the later 638 (alu cylinders) JAwa TS models. Interesting bit, the good old Czech arms manufacturer still built almost identical copies to the old cast iron Jawa bikes in 1987. I had one of those with 12V electrics, it was way better made than the more modern Jawa TS. You could say it was our Enfield. 'Built like a gun... 50 years ago' What killed them off real fast was the appalling quality of spare parts, especially lately. I think there are some manufacturers in Czech who still make good stuff, but the prices are sky high. You can have a decent front brake on your Honda CM for chips, or have a pile of worthless pig iron parts for the same money for Jawa.

I find such data very interesting about communist economy. It's almost hilarious if it was not sad.

Back to savage after i  offed my own thread!
Read through the squeaky belt section... I think I'll try to loosen it a bit. Hopefully that's the ticket.

As the dirtbike mudguard did everything apart from guarding from mud and the old steel piece looks kinda silly on the knobby tires, I decided to bolt on a mudflap.
I find it amazing, let me share with you...

This is a pretty agricultural area and i moved here just a bit over a year ago... there's a small petrol station / hardware shop in the nearest city (point of civilisation... shops etc) Lovely things you can buy there if you have a tractor.
Usually on petrol stations here you can have a selection of wines, beer crackers, teddy bears, whiskey (we have 0 tolerance on drink and drive...) ...  pretty much anything you need apart from stuff for a car like for example brake fluid...
Not here though, in that small shed you can get a new set of front leaf springs for your Ursus tractor. I bet you could rebuild your locally made pickup truck with parts from that Agro-station after you ditched it because you bought too much 'brake fluid' on one of the fancy petrol stations...

You also get mudflaps. For the grand total for about a dollar-75...

Mudflap cut to shape and bolted to the mudguard:

Nono, I meant that part cost  about 1.75$.
The cutting and fitting i did. The point is, parts for agricultural parts are hilariously cheap. I remember i had a tractor headlight on one of my old bikes as it was like a 3rd of the price for a universal bike headlight.

Then you might like the next idea.   I'll make heated grips using constantan wire. Found a decent writeup on some swiss website. All i need is a few meters of wire, some heat-shrink tube, a decent 3 way switch.

This stuff is commonly used as the cutting wire to slice up styrofoam panels for building insulation, so it's available. (Well, everything is available from ebay...)

Just tested the bike, and on a bigger pothole the rear tire hit the fender. I think i'll go for a size longer shocks. Do I remember correctly? Marauder 800  does the trick?
I'll try to finish up the rough version of the luggage rack today afternoon and post some pictures about it.

The new battery kicks it alive like a charm too!

I hammered half a pipe over the horizontal pipe to give it some extra strength