Hello everyone,
After staring at my father's 71 Commando 750 for my entire life I have finally convinced him to let me try and get the thing in good shape again. Having spent hours as a young child sitting on it in the garage pretending to be racing, its sort of a long time dream of mine (hopefully coming true).
So anyway... I was wondering if you could help me out with trying to figure out exactly how much i should expect to spend. I have very little knowledge about working on bikes ( in fact this is the first i've ever owned), however i'm pretty handy with cars so i have a grasp of the basic concepts of engines. From what my father has told me, so far i'm going to need to...
1. Get the engine rebuilt. it has been sitting for longer than i've been alive *22yrs
2. Replace the carbs
3. Tires... ofcourse
4. nearly all of the chrome on the bike is begining to pit
Like i said being new to the world of bikes, especailly british bikes which i hear is a totally dif. world all to itself :? I have no idea what kind of money i'm talking about here. Would apreciate any ideas. Thanks in advance, i'm sure i'll have plenty of questions for you all in the future. 8)
After staring at my father's 71 Commando 750 for my entire life I have finally convinced him to let me try and get the thing in good shape again. Having spent hours as a young child sitting on it in the garage pretending to be racing, its sort of a long time dream of mine (hopefully coming true).
So anyway... I was wondering if you could help me out with trying to figure out exactly how much i should expect to spend. I have very little knowledge about working on bikes ( in fact this is the first i've ever owned), however i'm pretty handy with cars so i have a grasp of the basic concepts of engines. From what my father has told me, so far i'm going to need to...
1. Get the engine rebuilt. it has been sitting for longer than i've been alive *22yrs
2. Replace the carbs
3. Tires... ofcourse
4. nearly all of the chrome on the bike is begining to pit
Like i said being new to the world of bikes, especailly british bikes which i hear is a totally dif. world all to itself :? I have no idea what kind of money i'm talking about here. Would apreciate any ideas. Thanks in advance, i'm sure i'll have plenty of questions for you all in the future. 8)