Bosch headlight parts/restoration

[71Laverda750SF]

Looking for parts for the Bosch long bullet headlight assembly used on the early 750's (Like the ones on Gert and Bert's machines), along with the light/s wiring for the Smiths instruments. Beyond the mess of parts that came with my Bosch, the assembly may be more straight forward if I have ALL of the parts.

The restoration is progressing fine, and with the fantastic shots of Bert and Gerts machines I have managed to find some more "Original" parts. The clocks seem to be the biggest issue that I have been going on so far. It must have been pretty cheap to change out the smiths for the ND's, along with changing the Bosch to a CEV (since this is the way mine has been since I first laid my eyes on it in '77).

Since my last posts came from the lovely land of Iraq, I am now having a blast in the snow of Afghanistan and have a much better internet provider (still slowwwwwwww) so my responses should be a lot quicker.

In advance I want to thank both Bert and Gert for the help so far, the pictures have helped so much. Thanks.

Clay

 

[Normski]

Hi,

I was given the very helpful link below by Stefan, re the headlight, in reply to a question  I posted 7th October 2011   - I've now got my head around how the switch works (once again! - I had a '72 GT with the same a few years ago) and will reassemble once the shell is painted. Lights for the Smiths Clocks should be easy to find at a British Bike Dealer they only have a 5w instrument bulb in each clock with a +ve & - ve feed and return to the bulbholder which clicks into the hole in the clock casing.

'You'll find e.g. in this spare parts catalogue on page 74 a parts diagram  http://www.motorrad-stemler.de/dcenter/down/r%2050%20bis%20r%2069%20s.pdf. They sell the parts of the switch also individually, see their price list http://www.motorrad-stemler.de/dcenter/down/prices/preise%20r%2050%20bis%20r%2069%20s.pdf.'

Good luck Norman