19-10-13, 12:56 PM
Your bike sounds pretty similar to mine rusted frame, flaking paint, pitted forks but my bike had a broken fairing.
I decided to just touch up the rust and flaking paint, live with the pitting (went over it with some aluminium foil) and streetfightered the front end with twin chrome headlights.
It has given the bike a new lease of life and smartened it up no end, my intension is to ride it for another year not spend much more money on it and upgrade to newer bike.
Unless you are going the full restoration route full strip down and rebuild and plan to keep it i wouldnt sink to much money into it.
Steve
I decided to just touch up the rust and flaking paint, live with the pitting (went over it with some aluminium foil) and streetfightered the front end with twin chrome headlights.
It has given the bike a new lease of life and smartened it up no end, my intension is to ride it for another year not spend much more money on it and upgrade to newer bike.
Unless you are going the full restoration route full strip down and rebuild and plan to keep it i wouldnt sink to much money into it.
Steve