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12/19/2020 8:52am
I dont want to put best equipment avalaible, but back to normal with low budget. Lot of parts were trash or near trash, especially home made radiators, footpegs and front numberplate was genuine Works of Art! Surprise best was kickstart lever. Here is the bike how i buy it. 
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No wonder the swing arm has cracked / required welding.
Looks like you are going to have to do quite a lot to make that bike whole,and Safely usable - breaking of the swingarm, is just a hint as to the abuse the poor thing has taken over many years, I'd say.
Luckily, there are quite a few steelie parts available, through the AF 'build' crowd.
PS : If you've KTM rider friends, who've 'blinged' their bikes ( up to 2015 / 2016 depending on the model), the foot pegs will fit the steelie. There's probably thousands of them sitting in garages gathering dust. Just use the KTM springs, and take approximately 1mm off the thicker face , and in it goes. I use the KTM Rally 450 pegs, - lower and much longer. Std KTM pegs are lower too, than original steelie pegs.
Thanks for foot pegs advice, but I have spare IMS pegs
I'd struggle to recall having seen a frame (well, the whole bike) so f**ked up, unless it was snapped in two.
And, as a frame maker and fabricator, I've made and repaired thousands in my six decades.
At nearly every point that the eye comes to, there's something horrific to behold.
To have a bike that's even remotely safe to use (or even to just look at as a garage queen) from this, really looks to require a full rolling chassis replacement - if the frame (and swingarm) has cracked / broken at so many points, and a jury rigged shock has been used, well, I can't imagine many other parts being in usable condition.
I really hope you got the bike for next to nothing, and the engine is , somehow, a far 'healthier' thing than the rest of the bike.
It's a shame you're not in the USA - there, with all the AFs done, you'd have a good chance of getting a healthy, usable Steelie rolling chassis for bugger all. Though maybe you'll find one - or parts - in your neck of the woods.
Good luck with bringing life back to this utterly abused bike. If you succeed, you'll be a Champion.
Czech translation. Ty Magore to sto koupil od nejakyho sedlaka na slovensku ? Ha ha ha
Just kidding bro .
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