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Thanks for the welcome. Haven't been up to that for a good few years, work and so on. Mad scary stuff but that's a compliment, now you say it I must stick it in for next year. Nearest thing to me is the Skerries 100, a bit before the UGP.

Evening blackhat250 That looks like a very nice YAS1, Hopefully ours will turn out somewhere near as nice. We had a chat, me and Kieran, about what we wanted to do when we started this. We decided to have a good looking 45 year old bike rather than something out of a showroom. Biggest reason is the cost of parts. I first got the bike off a bloke who brought it in from England (still have the reg if anybody's interested!) That was 10 years back. At that time I started buying bit's and bob's to replace missing bits. Just as well because when we started work about 3 months back prices had gone up by at least a factor of 10. For example a wiring loom I bought for 20 dollars is now 150+. And so on. Anyway, this bike will be used a lot. People need to hear a decent 2 stroke on full bore and see a bit of smoke

Thanks Airhead, we have the engine running sweetly, sounds fantastic. This is a link to some pics, they repeat a lot, also since we are in a 8 foot by 7 foot shed space is tight. Still have to do some work but loads ready to be reassembled. http://imgur.com/a/sIjqM

I'm Dave from Dublin. I'm in the process of restoring a 1970 YAS1 with the help of a good mate, Kieran. Picture attached. It's been a long road as loads of parts were missing and the bike itself had been butchered in many ways. But we are getting there and should be finished in a couple of weeks, We've also just bought a 1967 YL1 Sports also for restoration but it should be easier as it appears to be fairly intact. (I had one of these back in 1970 so it's a nostalgia thing!) Cheers and I look forward to being a member.