Thanks guys for the warm welcome and helpful advise – I’ll certainly be tapping you up for help and especially guidance, before I start I have to confess to being a bit of a luddite I don’t do Facebook, I’m sure the forums on there are helpful but from what I’ve seen there appears to be little or no structure to them and little more of a message board / quick Q&A rather than an solid archive of information like here. Do a Google search most of the time you end up here and the number of topic seems to cover just about everything you need and the advice even when contested/debated appears to be balanced and grounded

anyway a bit about me
In 1986 I was sat on an ER50, by 1988 a MKII 250 Gamma and then I sold my soul at 19 for a brand new 750 Slingshot so my allegiance at GP Level was for Schwartz over Gardner/Lawson/Rainey, but the Rothmans always had the coolest livery so when it came to downsizing the NSR was at the time a natural choice

Hopefully I’ve mastered posting links using the info above so here goes with my 2nd post.

Like a lot of others parts on this Bike the engine was once upon a time in full working but (visually at least) has since morphed into a horrid mess of corrosion dug in tighter than an Alabama Tick. Being the beating heart of the bike - decisive action was needed and after a Titanic struggle with the front lower engine Pin and plenty of Plusgas out it came for closer inspection.


Lacking a qualified doctor in the house and not knowing what was lurking on the inside home surgery wasn’t an option….. there was only one thing for it Professional help from Steve Alee @ GT Performance so off it went to have full blown open heart surgery and a cosmetic make over care of a very understand father. Living miles away and in the midst of a Pandemic Steve kindly sent updates as the rebuild progress and the pics below are from him






















Strip down begins










Back from the cleaners































One very sad crank….























Crank being rebuilt and looking sexy..










Final assembly begins
























Pure Engine Porn brought to you courtesy of Steve Alee at GT engineering


posted edited 18/9 as some of the links from GT stopped working


Nick or Spud Taylor™


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