Hi, folks - Finally got enough gunk off the engine to get the serial # - G4611, which looks to the cognoscenti to be late 1941, early '42. Does anyone have a manual or any documentation or any idea where one would GET documentation on this baby?

I will happily scan and archive as a pdf for the group. I've looked in the manual section, but didn't see anything.

Next, anyone know anything about THIS? I understand that it was on the bike somewhere.

Well, I see that you guys rock already! I'm in the Santa Cruz mountains (OK, to a Colorado girl, they are more like little hills, but then everything is marketed as bigger in California...) The bike bits are being crated and shipped as we speak, for the low, low cost of one helluva lot. My sisters are wrangling over the Harley Super 10 and the Shortster (no one wants a minibike...)

The Ducati boy just shakes his head and walks away, so no worries. All of his bikes are older (when Ducs were cool, and no one knew that Italians pay extra for gnats in the paint). A 907, and a Laguna Seca race-prepped F1. I'll keep mine...2 70's era Honda 400Fs in varying stages of decay and a tiny, angry 64 CB72 with a cylinder issue. Then we move on to the 71 BMW 2002...a great car, but the wipers don't work and when you turn on the heater, the engine dies. I sense electrical... The SV, however, is the issue primo!

I'll send all pics when I get them. One interesting bit was a rubber pedal-ey thing, with a K and star on each end. HHHMMM...