Hi men
I'm back with some more news. Good and...bad.
First of all @ Bill P and Peter K. :thanks for the compliments guys!
Let's start with the good news:
the rear wheel turned out to be OK after some gentle blows with a rubber hammer. The spokes run straight to the rim and I was able to get the wheel almost straight. There's a little bump of about 1 mm. I guess it was worse before .
The tyre is on and the wheel is in the frame, the brake works, the drive chain is back on.
The rear mudguard is mounted... now it's obvious that the frame is bent, it took me several hours to mount it because I had to use force to get it in its correct place. Anyway, it starts to look a lot like a bike.
The electricity (or what should be electric wires) is connected to the different switches and lights.
I also managed to mount the exhaust.
So far for the good news.
The bad news is that the spokes for the front wheel are not of the correct lenght. Once again the parts catalogue wasn't correct or the hub or the rim or both of them were replaced sometimes in the past.
It seemed to me that the thread of the spokes was cut, M4 with a pace of 0,7.
So I cut the spokes to the correct lenght and cut new thread on them.
They mounted without any problem and the front wheel seemed to look right.
When I informed the seller of what I did with the spokes he said that the thread was rolled and that is was M4 with a pace of 0,6...
He warned me that when I left it that way and would ride the bike, the spokes would pop out of the nipples.
He's the expert and I'm only a rooky so I ordered new spokes of the correct lenght.
So I'm waiting for them to arrive and to assemble the front wheel.
I'm also waiting for a new tin of paint to arrive. One litre wasn't enough for the bike...
Perhaps more news soon.
GrtZ
Philippe