IANS 13

I can't say a lot about this 13 as I can't see it, however the swinging arm is different. Click the thumb-nails for a better look. I'm hoping Ian will be able to peel himself away from admiring the swinging arm and send some more pictures of the rest of his bike soon.

Earlier this year 2003 Ian sold this swinging arm to Phil (Rich southern b@$$t@rd) due to Ian moving house the swing arm didn't change hands until October 2003. But as he removed the swing arm Ian took a load of pictures so we could all compare the JMC with a standard arm.

The picture below shows just why Ian wanted to sell the arm. It made it impossible to buy an off the shelf exhaust because of the size of the arm. But hey I'd have thought that a small price to pay considering how good the arm looks.

Here we have a set of side by side comparison's of the two.

We'll just have to wait with baited breath to see Phil's machine with it on.

Finally got round to taking some pictures in the freezing cold and wet after putting original swingarm and new suspension on.
 
This is the bike that originally had the JMC swingarm that Anorak(phil) is putting on his.
 
You already have a page for me but only with pictures of the JMC arm.
 
Some history for the page.

The bike is a 1986 ZG1300-A3 DFI.
 
This bike was owned from new by the brother of a good friend of mine. It was delivered to Street Machine in Aylesbury in ebony black he believes but he had them spray it Eddie Lawson colours before he took delivery.
 
He picked the JMC arm up at the NEC bike show and is sure it is a one off. Because the arm fouls the left exhaust he road it for years on open pipes and never got pulled.
 
Mark then had kids and, as he was a bit of a nutter rider, decided to give it a rest for a bit. It then languished in my friends shed for six or seven years.
 
The three of us go to Le Mans ever year, and one drunken evening I was slagging of my mates brother for keeping "that beast" locked up. At which point he said "well you better buy it from me then". And I'd said OK before I'd really thought about it. I offered him £2000 if it ran and £1500 if it didn't. He said yes "fool" I thought.
 

Back home, the bike was in much better condition than I thought it would be and would be happy to pay 2k for it. But, it wouldn't start. So, whilst this was good on the money front I was a bit worried how much it would take to get running again.
 
The workshop manuals made us think the fuel pump was not working - but I bought the bike any way. After checking that there were no electrical problems I checked out how much a new pump would be. £600 PLUS DELIVERY FROM JAPAN - SIX MONTHS WAITING LIST - "what have I done".
 
The pump is a sealed, non-serviceable unit. Bugger. With nothing to lose my Dad (engineer) turned the end cap off the pump in a lathe. The pump was full of solidified petrol and just needed cleaning out. My Dad then turned a thread on the outer case and made a Aluminium "cap" to screw the thing back together. After cleaning the rest of the fuel system - she fired up  - rough on 4/5 cylinders which was fixed by servicing the HT leads and new sparkplugs. I couldn't believe how well she ran.

Apart from general clean up and maintenance, a big bore straight through brass fuel tap, and full rebuild of the cam chain tensioner I have done very little to this bike and she blows me away.
 
She is now back on the original swingarm with Progressive Suspension Inc 416 series rear shocks and front springs.

I LOVE THIS BIKE. Ian A.