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Nearly there off to paint on tuesday then a little tidying brake hoses etc while bodywork is away.MOT and ride the thing i hope.

Those indicators are clearly non standard ADE .



Love it


What's the paintscheme ?

Sorry you will be telling me next as an A1 it should have spoked wheels.I have alway tried to maintain the zed look.I do have another confession i dont think the horn is standard sorry
Ade

Yes the A1 did have spoke wheels

Any pics of the horn

Looks a treat...... gotta say, the key to a LUSH Zed is the Kickstarter

I'm liking the look of that.

Please tell us more about the (I presume) belt driven ignition.

Cheers for the comments as we all know we set our selves a budget and it all goes pear shaped.There is always something comes along and projects get put on the back burner.I did think about selling but i got that much stick,so i decided to sell my xr650 as it wasnt getting used and put some of the money int the zed.In the past i start doing things to it and stop as i am not happy with how its going probly down to trying to do things on a budget.The ignition is Mistral engineerings prototype which i managed to buy off them.They used to be Jim Wells and John Carpenter developed the ignition.It looks nice but is a bit of a pain.It runs a single coil to a dolomite sprint distributer and is belt driven off the cam Lucas Rita ignition box with the limiter set at 10,000rpm .I am thinking of changing to a dyna set up but keeping the mistral casing.Like we all know these bikes never seem to be finished you sit and look see another bike which gives you ideas.If i could give any advice it would be do it to the best you can afford if its an exhaust or full blown special i have seen lots of specials that are sold to repay the credit card bill they have run up doing there bikes.So since getting inspired again i can count myself lucky after 23 years i still own it.Well thats probly bored you all have a goo day
Cheers Ade

Top job there, looks well tasty

ADE, your explanation of why you decided to keep your Zed instead of selling it after 23 years,
didn't bore me in the slightest personally speaking.
Have a great time out and about on it, nice one mate.

~Jay.

nice trick Zed

Checked the timing today so took some photos of the ignition

Got fed up waiting for paint work so i put the old bodywork back on minus the front mudgaurd.Not an MOT issue apparently,not sure on the road.iT It passed the MOT guy was climbing all over it as it had not been MOTed for a number of years.Two advisorys front pads near to the limit and exhaust a little noisey.paint work is in primer and hoping to get it back in a couple of weeks

Great news

Cheers been along time was so good to get it on the road.there is no better feeling than riding a big air cooled four
Cheers Ade

Mudguard might be a problem with the law but you are right that it is not an mot requirement. Nice zed by the way!