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Some pictures of my Saturno 558 project. I'm glad I sandblasted the frame because there was a lot of corosion on it!

I also installed Hagon progressive fork springs. I'm curently working the head, reshaping the ports with epoxy. Pictures soon!!
Let me know what you think about it!!

Wow!
A lot of compliments!
An other man in.... trouble!!!!
Good works!..... and good luck!

Ciao
Marco

Why trouble??!

JoepSeuren wrote:Why trouble??!

Achtung!..... ironie....
I'm restoring a Gilera XR1 since march 2007......
.... and I've saw a lot of problems....
.... and I'm in trouble to solve them!!!!

Have a nice day!

Ciao

Marco

Problems like what? problems with your tyres?

JoepSeuren wrote:Problems like what? problems with your tyres?

Tires?
No..... everything, but fortunately not tires!

Problems with:
- blocked bolts and screws;
- engine blocked;
- carburetor and fuel tank full of old and corrosive gasoline;
- rust into tank;
- 2nd gear blocked on secondary gear axis;
- engine that suck air from old gaskets;
- brakes with gaskets out of order;
- find all old spare parts;
- find all original stickers;
- and repaint all, and restore all, and look at this,..... and look at that.....
Uff!
What a incredible adventure!

Good luck!

Ciao

Marco!

That's what we call restoration, but I don't have any of that problems

JoepSeuren wrote:That's what we call restoration, but I don't have any of that problems

restoration = trouble



Ciao

Marco

The black paint was awesome! That's perfect looking. Was that original?

but now it has the one and only colour

Black was one of the colours the Saturnos have in Europe. But they seem to be very rare (i know why)
Beside the red and black ones with white decals (and white rims with black colors at the black one) there was another black Saturno. The Anniversario in something like John Player Special decor.

The japanese could also have some bonbon colored Saturnos
And three different versions.... normal, TT and F1 (if i remember right)

ciao Joachim

From the beginning I was 100% sure the frame was gonna be painted red, but I couldn't choose a colour for the fairing, fuel tank, seat, and wheels!
My first thought was to paint it antracit, but by the time I was doubting if it would look good with the red frame. after I saw a photoshop antracit Saturno I decided to paint it red.. antacit with a red frame looked to ''glossy''. It's a classic looking bike made for a red finish!
(The wheels are painted Gold.. AWESOME!!!) pictures soon

@Gilerafan:
Yes, black was original.

I got the gold painted wheels back: