I got my hands on a '74 FR50 for bugger all, but it wasn't running and looked like it had been neglected for some time by previous owners, it didn't run and none of the electrics worked.
I later learnt it's a FR50K which was the very last of the '74s before they ceased production until 1981 (I think) but there isn't too much difference, just cosmetic stuff, like paint, the plastic piece that screws to the forks and the seat. that's all I've noticed that's different to a normal '74 FR50 so far.
I don't have any photos of it together because I was far too keen to strip it down for paint/other mods.
It was pretty rusty to begin with, nothing too major though just surface rust mostly.
The front rim is pretty bad (that's the rear one) and has a sweet speed (rust) hole near the valve. she'll be right though.
It also had a sick rattle can black paint job on the frame
So first thing I got around to doing was painting it, but as it always goes I got too keen on sussing out some mods before I had finished painting it, so here it is post primer, and it looks shit. kinda looks like a slug in this photo
I got my hands on some LTZ400 quad handle bar mounts and cut them up to fit in a narrower gap, and drilled out some existing holes to fit the 10mm bolts for the mounts, worked really well. Came out something like this;
Ignore the bars, those are some random mock ups that were made out of a shitty warehouse broom handle.
Also cut up the standard bar mount thing that houses the ignition and what not so it filled the gap between the head tube and the leg guard a bit and looks sort of tidier.
Continued to mess around with bar mock ups;
Thought these kinda looked silly, made it look sad or something so decided against making bars with that kind of downsweep.
With the help of Mitch (Mitch.W on here I think) we got rowdy with the grinder and chopped the rear guard off and had a look to see what it would look like slammed.
Definitely going to make it low (not this low though) in the future via some hard tail struts, kind of ghetto way to do it but it'll do the job.
It then turned green..
This is pretty much as far as I have got with it so far, still needs a few things but I want to get it to run first,
Needs headlight/tail light, throttle cable, and a seat and it's pretty much good to go.
Here are some photos I took to see what I want it to look like when it's finished more or less. Probably going to paint the wheels black though.
Still haven't made the hard tail struts so it's just sitting on the tyre here but you get the idea.
Will keep posting updates as it progresses