T500 Special...
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:02 pm
I've owned this 500 since 1977, so I've pretty much grown up with it. Lack of use and damp storage saw it deteriorate quite badly, but last March I decided to attack it, and take it to the Isle of Man TT at the end of last May. It got stripped down in early March, and was finished by early May with several weeks to spare. The plan was to build a custom bike, but one that was easily recognisable as the T500 it started out as. That meant keeping the stock tank, in the original colour, but changing just about everything else. It went down very well at the TT, and I had great fun riding it there........so much so, it will be going again this year !
