Hi all, I am returning a 1974 (confirmed by numbers) WR400 to active use. It is now ready for frame painting and it is here that I need some help. I don’t have the full history of the bike, but I do know it spent much of its competitive life on the far south coast of NSW, and was raced well into the 1980s. The suspension was modified, presumably to keep up with more modern machinery. It has ‘laydown’ rear shocks with modified frame mounts to accommodate this, and extended forks, perhaps from a late 1970s Husqvarna. The bike was described as being a ‘GP’ model. The existing frame colour is not the typical Husqvarna silver (I believe people use Ingot Silver Metallic as the closest match. Instead the frame is painted a silvery green, difficult to describe, hence the need for photos. The seller this was a GP colour, though I can find no information regarding this. There are 2 reasons I believe this could be a genuine factory colour, but happy to be corrected. First, when I scratch back through the layers I cannot find the expected silver paint. Second, the warning sticker on the headstock tube looks every bit of its 50 plus years. If this was some backyard job, why bother to renew a warning decal after a respray? All advice and information gratefully received. Thanks
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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
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Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
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Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
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WR400 ‘GP’ frame colour advice
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