No dears, let's not go there.
Here is the old girl shortly after I picked her up. I got it from a guy in Walcha, Central NSW, which is over 500k from where I live. Bloke had it advertised on ebay. No bids. Passes in. I call and offer less than half what he's asking, and he agrees, providing I collect it before 6pm that evening. Left Brisbane at 11am, got to his place at 5.30pm, home before midnight.
In the Garage at home. I wasn't intending to do too much, but the closer I looked, the grosser it became. It was obvious that major work was needed to properly repair the fairings, and the colour was not my 1st choice...
Bare bones. Not as bad as it looks. Big smile when I realised not seized and possibly worth continuing. If it was a fizzer at this point, no big deal, as I have a Mk2 Mini Cooper S to which I can graft the K100 head and fuel injection. No, really, it's quite common nowadays. Bolt on horsepower.
Jury rigged a fuel system to at least get it running to see if any further effort was warranted. Just quietly, very happy when it burst into life after all those years. Don't worry, I did it properly. Drained the oil, refilled with fresh oil and 50% diesel to flush, vigorously rocked bike and turned over by rotating wheel in gear, after 1st checking that all lifters were going in and out. Wouldn't do to bend a valve. Drained out oil flush and put 2 fresh loads through it by cranking over on starter motor (new battery and cleaned up starter - it really needed brushes, but not wanting to spend $ until sure it was worthwhile), with new oil filter. Grabbed a spare E30 BMW external fuel pump and hot wired it and plumbed it up to an external fuel tank (mower fuel can). Didn't take much for it to come back to life, and then added a can of Mercury (outboard) Power Tune, which is brilliant for unsticking rings. Replaced the 3 rubber covers on the intake manifold, balanced the TB's and it now runs very sweetly:
Long story short: Repaired and painted everything except side covers (had them professionally repaired - collected them this arvo), had rotten tank repaired, fitted good used UK ebay fuel pump, isolator and mount. new fuel lines and filter, and got the brakes working (sort of - next week's task). Took it for a ride. Dang, nice bike.
Still have to finish fitting the fairings and front mudguard, but I've got to do the wheels 1st. Needs lots and lots of finishing off, but you get the idea. By the time I'm allowed to ride it on the street, it should be quite nice.