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Z1-R fork leg & rear calliper finish?

#1 PostAuthor: ruffle » Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:46 pm

Oh dear.... I'll just tart her up I thought. Ooo... what's behind here? Oh I'll just take that bit off too.. gosh that could do with sorting... and before your know it... the bike's in a thousand bits :(

Ho Hum :shock:

Sorry chaps but I guess there'll be a few of these questions coming up as my '78 Z1R gets fettled (I'll post separate threads so future searches are easier for folk) but to start off with;

What was the standard finish on the ally fork sliders? AFAICS they appear to be linished and laquered - is that right?

And the rear brake calliper? Satin or gloss? mine's gloss but has obviously been repainted at some point.

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Re: Z1-R fork leg & rear calliper finish?

#2 PostAuthor: compo z1r » Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:46 pm

ruffle wrote:Oh dear.... I'll just tart her up I thought. Ooo... what's behind here? Oh I'll just take that bit off too.. gosh that could do with sorting... and before your know it... the bike's in a thousand bits :(

Ho Hum :shock:

Sorry chaps but I guess there'll be a few of these questions coming up as my '78 Z1R gets fettled (I'll post separate threads so future searches are easier for folk) but to start off with;

What was the standard finish on the ally fork sliders? AFAICS they appear to be linished and laquered - is that right?

And the rear brake calliper? Satin or gloss? mine's gloss but has obviously been repainted at some point.

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Re: Z1-R fork leg & rear calliper finish?

#3 PostAuthor: ruffle » Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:46 am

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fork bottoms laquered


Ta. I take it that's linished and laquered not polished and laquered?

AFAICS (I'm peering through the remains of a few square centimeters of faded yellow crusty laquer between the mudguard mounting bosses) mine were linished but just wanted to make sure before getting it wrong.
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Re: Z1-R fork leg & rear calliper finish?

#4 PostAuthor: compo z1r » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:51 pm

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compo z1r wrote:
fork bottoms laquered


Ta. I take it that's linished and laquered not polished and laquered?

ruffy thats correct but ive' polished and laquered think it looks better :?:
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#5 PostAuthor: ruffle » Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:35 am

Well I went for just the linished look; a bit of time last night with lots-of-nasty-solvents and some fine and super fine fibral wheels and one fork leg has gone from skanky to not bad :)

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