New guy - new owner- transplant questions
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:13 am
Hi to all. I became the proud owner of a 1994 Skorpion sport a month or so ago. To say it was unloved is a massive understatement. I have never seen a bike so filthy. I think it had spent it's latter years as a messenger hack in London and therefore had a very hard life.
The engine ran very well. No noises or smoke and had only 40k kilometers on it. And it was cheap.
Got her home after a 700 mile road and ferry round trip and began the strip down. Apart from a few seized bolts, electrical glitchs and making good a few bodged repairs, it was just a case of lots of petrol, degreaser and pressure washer.
The fairing was badly cracked and needed repairing and respray ( RAL code 1003. Audi signal yellow). Fresh pads, new fork oil, change engine oil & filter and she is pretty much good to go. I even had a pair of Pirelli Dragons in the right sizes to go on.
Now, like a lot of guys on here, I'm a tinkerer. No skilled mechanic by any means but can find my way round a bike. As fortune would have it I bumped into a buddy the other day who has an FZR600 race bike in his garage with a wrecked engine. It has Maxton tuned forks & a Maxton rear shock. I can have this bike as a gift so, knowing this subject has been flogged to death on here, will the entire front end plug & play onto the MZ? likewise the rear shock.
The engine ran very well. No noises or smoke and had only 40k kilometers on it. And it was cheap.
Got her home after a 700 mile road and ferry round trip and began the strip down. Apart from a few seized bolts, electrical glitchs and making good a few bodged repairs, it was just a case of lots of petrol, degreaser and pressure washer.
The fairing was badly cracked and needed repairing and respray ( RAL code 1003. Audi signal yellow). Fresh pads, new fork oil, change engine oil & filter and she is pretty much good to go. I even had a pair of Pirelli Dragons in the right sizes to go on.
Now, like a lot of guys on here, I'm a tinkerer. No skilled mechanic by any means but can find my way round a bike. As fortune would have it I bumped into a buddy the other day who has an FZR600 race bike in his garage with a wrecked engine. It has Maxton tuned forks & a Maxton rear shock. I can have this bike as a gift so, knowing this subject has been flogged to death on here, will the entire front end plug & play onto the MZ? likewise the rear shock.