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Z1900 back from the grave.
Bought this off Ebay a few months back, it T boned a car turning right while overtaking,and sat in a shed for 27 years.
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Just about everything was fucked, accept the back wheel. engine had two snapped valves, I found a gear tooth in the sump, frame was fucked forks fucked frontwheel fucked, taco speedo seat tank side covers tail peace blinkers fucked fucked fucked.
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The frame was too stuffed to straighten so I decided to chop all the bent bits off.
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Fuck! not much left, should I rebuild or buy another frame?
Well I'd never built a frame before and this one was nearly half done, so I bought some chrome moly, made a pipe bender from scrap I had around the house, studied up on frame geometry and got started.
Used a sheet of 12mm thick steel for a base, made up a few jigs (sorry, forgot to take pics) my lathe was too small so I got the local engineering shop to turn up the head stock then started bending cutting and welding,
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So far so good. everything lines up spot on.