I have just put together a 650 Deauville from 3 scrap bikes, i now have a lovely bike that cost me £300 and i have enough spares to keep it on the road for the next 30 years.

I picked up a 2010 one of these machines from the original owner that kept it inside his house garage here in the USA. He did not ride it after 2015. I have a few videos on KZfaq with the problems I had from it sitting for approximately eight years caused by stabilizer in the fuel. And these machines have another glitch that’s very common, it’s the spark plug caps.. so when I bought it, my writing, it loosened that mass of stabilizer debris in the bottom of the tank, but me driving the bike, loosened it and plugged the fuel filter. I was lucky I could get my arm completely inside the gas tank to brush all of the debris that was hardened to the walls and the bottom of the tank with a Scotch-Brite pad and a stiff paintbrush, applying a vacuum hose through the gas cap to pull all that dust out. I cleaned the filter, gave it a quick rinse, then I had the hesitation and occasional stall which turned out to be the spark plug caps. It acts like someone turned the key off for a second and right back on. I had two issues with this bike. I thought it was just fuel, but it was fuel and it was faulty, spark plug caps that get old and hard and they develop voltage leak. Now the bike is pretty well sorted and I am in love with it. I like it so much that I sold my 4000 mile Kawasaki Z 400 , which was going to be my back road scratcher when I didn’t want to wrestle with my Yamaha royal star venture. But now that I have this bike here in June 2024. I sold the Kawasaki, now I’m thinking of selling the Venture, which I have many many many videos of on KZfaq on my channel. you’re working wonders with this bike in this video. I personally would not have bought a bike in that condition. There are limits and degrees. I have been flipping bikes that I have resurrected for over 40 years. I’ve gone through about 110 bikes, so far, counting street bikes, dirt, bikes, motocross, bikes, trials, bikes, commuter, bikes, road racing machines, Sport, bikes, dual sports, and the big touring machines. on my job, which took me all through Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and the surrounding area. Every day, I would spot motorcycles that were just orphans sitting in the back of someone’s garage, or in their yard or in the basement when I went inside to get to the electric panel. And I would leave a note asking if they would care to sell it while there is still something left to sell.. I won’t buy a crashed bike, a modified bike, or a repainted bike. I’ve only bought one basket case that I was able to get running and sold, a Kawasaki, 500 triple two-stroke. I just did not want to ride that bike because they were such evil handlers. I’ve seen them on the race tracks they all wiggled at the same point, and they did not survive crashes very well because of the width of the engine. That’s why there are so few survivors today… I admire your determination and your ingenuity. I will be watching.

Lovely stuff mate . It would of been all to easy to break it for spares as many would. Will make someone a cheap work hack... keep at it , your doing a great job with the channel 🙂

Nice one Jay. Another cracking upload, thanks. That’ll do someone a good turn for years. What you going to be asking for it?

Will make a great winter hack for someone.

I think this would be a good candidate for a bobber build. Take as much of it away as you can whilst still keeping it functional. If those plastics are as fragile and complicated as the ones I had on my NC700 they are a nightmare.

While your doing all this do the rear brake peddle pinion, clean & grease. #1 problem on these work horses. Leads to dragging non operational back brake