Benelli 491

Bought it for £450, and was in pretty alrite condition, despite being stood for 4 years.

Things that needed sorting:

Panels (bought new set for £20, gonna respray pretty soon)
Battery (got a new one for £17)
Exhaust (got a used leo vince zx for £36)
Carb (new main jet or £4)
Brakes (new calliper and pads for £20)
Rear tyre (free from scrap yard)
New polini high performance air filter

To do:
New rollers (these ones are beginning to go square)
Replace clutch springs with 2k RPM
Replace
New reed valves
Sand and respray panels

Before






During

 

nice to see something a bit different; looks like a nice bike in all fairness

 

nice to see a bennelli, what part of lincs are you from, love the minarelli motor and benellis look awesome.

 

thanks! i'm from horncastle in lincs

 

cool, your'e about 20 miles from me, i live the opposite side of lincoln.

 

cool, we should meet up one day, when i get mine sorted- how old are you?

 

18, yeah, how long do you recon before it's done?

 

im 16

i reckon another 2-3 weeks, cus i've got to get it MOTed and Taxed aswell...

 

YOu got MSN, if so PM me ur addy mate

 

sent.


whats the plans for the bike, are you looking to 70 kit it?

 

hopefully when i get enough money, i might 70kit it, and 21mm carb... but for now it's staying as a 50 with 17.5mm carb

 

it could be worse mate..ive got a 70 kit with 12mm carb :emb:

 

hehe, does it run well?

 

Update:

UPDATE:
All panels have been resprayed and repaired as necessary. Also new ZX exhaust has been fitted. Tell me what you think...


















Next plan of action is to get the numberplate holder cut down, so it looks a bit better!!

 

Looks amazin!!! Done a good job......

P.S. you got any of that primer left? =p

 

black white or grey?

 

not too bad...but im hopeing when i get a 21mm it"ll go a whole lot better

but ive gotta get a full circle crank 1st and new main bearings :w00t:

 

That looks wicked mate, thought the bike was cool because it was different but was a bit ropey but you've done a lovely job getting it looking good. Nice one, didn't even know these bikes really existed

 

Update:

Just bought the new engine for the Benelli because the rear calliper had snapped off the crank case. I was quoted for a weld at £150 and no guarentee that it would hold. So I got this second hand MBK/Aerox engine and crankcase along with a new rear wheel and rear tyre and front and rear Brembo callipers all for £120 (not bad I thought). Engine is in quite shabby condition, but it's only visual, will be spending a couple of days cleaning and respraying the visible parts and then fitting it to the Benelli.

Here's some pics:

 

have you got a water pump cover thing? ive got one here that ive started polishing if ya need one?