I am in Thailand with an 84. I have a custom bike builder who is stripping mine down and machining spares as a proactive measure, drive shaft and transmission parts and such. His electrics guy is excellent. I recognize that this message is ancient but if you still have the bike I may be able to help you. If your bike has become a non-runner and you have given up, I would be interested in purchasing it. I have had one for three months now and I LOVE it and I recognize that it will eventually implode to a screeching halt if I do not take some drastic measures to maintain it. If you have any advice please share. I am hoping to do somethings crazy with it like Thailand to the bottom of Borneo and perhaps shipping it to Africa and following a prior Paris DAkar course. Of course this is a dream and probably will not happen but...I pursued this bike since I was in France in the mid-nineties and finally got a guy to sell me one. I loved the quote of one of the text which I read \