Here is the bike which has featured pretty exclusively in my posts over the past month or so. Finally put the engine back in today, a milestone! It has already been a labour of love in more than one sense. I'm doing it for an old friend who wants the bike to look as new as possible, which has been a challenge for me, accustomed as I am to just "fixing" things. Josef has had the bike for more than 40 years and I remember riding it when we lived there (near Munich). In recent years it has been laid up waiting to be resurrected, and now, we hope, its time has come. Forum members have already helped with spare casings, gearbox internals and lots of good advice. Weld repairs already done on the frame. tanks, primary chaincase (lumiweld, worked very well indeed). Absolutely every individual part has been stripped and inspected. New pistons, valves, springs etc as well as new bottom end bearings throughout and in gearbox. Frame already powder coated, sheet metalwork will be painted. We have probably already spent far more than the bike is worth. But this is going to be a good bike.
I'll send more photos as it progresses