Is this the bushing your talking about?
I was just going to leave it in there and tape is off when I sandblast and paint.
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Why does your bike look identical to mine but yours is a Scrambler and mine is a Roadster? Whats the difference?
Yes thats the bushing. You can leave it in if you want I like to pull them out and defunk everything. You do have to take it out if you decide on pwdercoating though!
the bikes offered by Rupp were usually based on the same frame but optioned out differently. In 1970 the scrambler was the lowest end 10" wheeled. it was 3.5hp no fancy muff, no lights no front brake, the enduro was 4hp, front brakes no lights, the roadster was 4hp lights, dual brakes. Everything else was the same. They had a 6" wheeled bike too, the sprint, I think that it was the same frame still, but used different fenders and at least rear shocks. They offered three colors in '70, red, orange, and blue in that year, I believe that the tank was always silver(?) The only oddity I see now and again in the 1970 bikes is some of them had a little bracing right behind the head of the frame and some did not, I dunno why yet. And they look similar to the '71 up bikes (with exception to the forks), but there are differences everywhere on the bike, keep that in mind when/if you start parts hunting and you are trying to keep it year correct.