Hello
I'm fairly new here, also a fairly new biker, although I have been riding motocross, I've never been on the road with a bike(Legally/Except mopeds).
But that's about to change.
I thought a good way to get to know you guys might be a project thread.
Some of you may already know how I came across my VX, so I won't write on forever about that.
The short story is: I found a bike, dusted down and abandoned in a garage in the countryside, and bought it, borrowed a Transit and brought the bike home.
When the bike arrived in my garage, the brakes were shot, battery dead, it was dusty, rusty and pretty much in some real need for some caring.

I bought a battery to see if there was any life in it, and it was. The adventure begins.

She would crank, but the starter motor made horrible noises! Until it stopped completely... New starer and some service items were bought, oil, oil filter, spark plugs(regular), brake pads, air filters.
When I got the starter motor out I discovered that one of the magnets inside had cracked.. So lots of magnet dust and ruined parts inside.

With some new spark plugs and the new starter, she starts!
You may also see in this picture, that someone decided to paint the chrome exhaust black...

Now that I know she starts, I can begin disassembling, cleaning, replacing parts and assembling.

I bought a used front brake master cylinder on Ebay and a rebuild kit, bled the front caliper with some fresh brake fluid, and now the front brake work

The rear one works okay, will look into that later.

Some cheap chrome mirrors, new OEM grips and a new clutch handle

New clutch wire

Renewing some plastic, I'll put some mesh in that later.

After a few weeks of cleaning she's starting to look better!

And today we had beautiful weather, so I got some work done today too!
After seeing it on tis forum, I installed this thing. I only need to make a bracket.

I used this to provide power for it, hope that wont give me any problems.

This headlight either needs to be rechromed or I need a new one... But for now I brushed off as much as I could with some WD-40 and aluminum foil.


I did a lot today, I won't bore you with everything, but it actually looks like I'm getting somewhere!

You guys have been of great help! Thanks!