Thanks Lads - but the built-up pics are from the day I picked it up in March, before I'd waved a socket, screwdriver of dremel brush at it. Pretty clean to begin with, which makes it a lot easier. Seller had bought it 4-years ago, tried to start it, failed, then put it away with his 15-odd other bikes. Got it home; it started for me 2nd kick - admittedly only running on one. Turned out just to be clogged-carbs.

Rebuild is almost finished - like to think of it as a "sympathetic restoration" - aka - couldn't be arsed to do any paint spraying. The strip & rebuild have been as much a familiarisation exercise as anything else. Next year - she comes apart again and gets paint and any mechanical probs sorted. Been dead impressed with the quality of the components. The alloy in particular - "they don't make em like that anymore" etc etc). Bought another mc16 the same week in March - that one's a dog. 40,000K and everything shagged-out. Thought it would make a good donor-bike, but to be honest, the bike I've stripped and re-built didn't need anything other than a few new bolts to replace some of the gash that had been used over the years.The 40,000K 'bike will get the track-day treatment (one-day, probably, maybe).

Anyway, looking forward to the day I can get some pics of the finished job on here. But, you know how it is - the last 5% of work takes 50% of the effort and all that - something to do with leaving all the hard stuff till last I suppose.

SR