The project bike

I have bought a second bike! The story started a few years earlier when I was working at my previous company. I had a polish colleague who was using a 2004 Yamaha 125 Dragstar for commuting. However he moved closer to the company, so close he could walk to work, so he parked his bike at the back of the office and left it there. For FOUR long years! I felt sorry for the bike from the beginning, I even covered it with my old bike cover, when I bought a new one. Anyway last year (2016) in August I asked him if the bike is for sale. Eventually we agreed in £150! So this is how it looked like when I bought it.

I have shipped it to Hungary (my home country) and fixing it up. I enjoy doing some DIY especially on motorbikes. So what was needed to do:

• Clean the tank
• Clean the carb
• Replace the carburator joint (it was quite worn)
• Charge or replace the battery
• Replace the sprokets and the chain
• Clean off the rust from the chrome

So far at the time of writing (2017 may), I have done everything, except replacing the carburator joint the sprokets and the chain. When the bike will be repaired completely, it will go through a naturalization process to get a hungarian license plate.

This is how it looks now: