TerraRoot

Bought this yesterday, e100! everthing is bent cut busted and rusted except the tires and probably the brake (singular, rear) i say probably beacuse i haven’t actually looked at it and it might be busted anyway. had loads of plans to bigger better engines but now i think i’ll just fix/fit the engine in it weld up the HUGE cut/hole in the frame and sort out that rear wheel, the axle teeth are stripped so i’ll have to either pay for a new one (yaright) or weld the hub to the axle (gotta get it straight) maybe way in the future i’ll get a bigger chinese copy engine, but as soon as it’s fixed i want to see what driving with no suspension on the road feels like did i mention it has a frame number and a few other legal nicecitys?.

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Pity i didn’t take any pics of the crap 14 alloys that were on it, embarrassing they were, just put the 13’s on here so needs to be driven for the suspension to settle.

Now all i need is some one who is very very good at soldering. did i just put my credit card details in a pic?

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Well, got back from Scotland, enjoyed the driving, didn’t like the drinking. Don’t really know what else to say i mean like i really really liked the driving, I got from sterling to ballymun(Dublin) to limerick (got lost) and finally to cork in one day and enjoyed it! it was something like 450miles. Didn’t think I would with all the driveing I do during the week. When I got home and could stand again I looked up nick sanders, 19 days to circumnavigate the world? hot shit I could do that! okay maybe not but then I’d be doing it on a 80,000mile old cbr. Sarge didn’t have any nick sanders dvd’s but I got long way around and long way down. Those ejits should have spent there own money and got the KTM’s, personally I’d like a Russian 6×6 or a the tiny two-stroke the camera man was using :D.

Speaking of serious off road machine, looks like the recession is make 4×4’s cheap now, seen a nice nissan pickup for 1700 and a 3ltr daihatsu for 1000. The economy will have picked up again by the time I have my starlet re-engined and NCT’d leaving me with nothing again.

Other news:

Project hardpoints will be moving along soon ,watch this space as they say.

Got a laptop! will be taking the dremel to it 2morrow.

New wheels again for the starlet, nice set of 13″, cars look much lower now and will be cooler then a very cool thing when I finish the suspension.

HOLIDAY PICS HERE

This is a nicer sign then the actual john o groats sign. Did a 250mile round trip on my own to see this while the other two were hung over

Did you think i didn’t have any problems with my bike? HA!

That rads been dead and holed 4 time’s, last time the neck got a little outta shape so it wasn’t really sealing properly, this mod allowed me to see what the water was doing and fill up sooner.

Bashed on that f3 rad i got from JT, fan didn’t fit, bottom pipe needed extending and upper slip on joint was miles out. f3 fan might fit i’ll never know.

Little bracket i made up. Also squeezed in a temp gauge from an nsr80, it lights up red and the speedo light up green. Mismatched monster eyes lookin at ya!

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It has been decided, we are going to scotland. gotta clean and sort out the cbr.

First up, a pic of the old cracked air filter.

Temporarily fixed. new filter allready in as we type.

All back together, along with the other cb650 (nighthawk) throttle cable. removed the old return cable while i was in there too. seems to have really improved the mpg, can get 155miles out of tank now, where it used to be 140(130 when i first got it)

Shiny new stainless steel pipes! cost me e320, so now i have to keep the cbr for the pizza job, gotta get me a spare engine.

The old ones weren’t too bad….

A rare pic of my bike in one piece!

Need a bit of a fairing to blow the wind off me, i like suzuki katanas, i have this spare dr750 nose lying around the place, need to cut off the elephant ears and find the cbr’s old headlight bracket to weld it up it’s just hanging here in this pic, probably will move it back and up a bit, then i’l paint it general lee orange! might skip the confederate flag tho.

big gap sucks, we shall see if it closes up when i get near to the finally position.

Looks just like the katana, got some smaller clocks to go in there too, 180kmh one instead of 85mph.

Practice packing for the trip, got a massive water proof bag to hold the sleeping bag and mat, both ex army worn and used but really comfortable and warm (bullets holes have been patched too!). Have the tassles cut off now i just need to get rid of the ‘timeless cruisers’ crap on the side.

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Got runner going, just needed battery, starter motor wireing up,petrol and the alternator nut tightened.
Sounds lovely, would be straight out on it but insurance hassles with the guard right now are killing my
enthusiasm. Why the hell does she want my policy number so bad? did the guards in any of my other
accidents want to see my policy? can’t remember.

Anyway, it was all easy except the wire for the starter motor, odd spot and why the hell did i take it off in
the first place?


a very bad quick chop,extend the motor back till the rear mud guard, take out the boot box thing and
lower the seat onto the frame rails, lower everything else too.
A decent engine mount that didn’t twist and some frame slimming (it’s very wide not fat) could make this
bike very nice… or maybe i should just ride it.

Stripped the cbr right down. why? to change the throttle cable…..

the length is not a problem, how ever the cable slack is (cb650 cable) old cable is way fucked not a
chance in hell of me putting it back on. will search about the house for one soon, but i may just get
a new one. also the air filter is cracked!! don’t know weather it was because i was hit so hard or because
it is a cheap copy.

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Well maybe not but the new seat is fantastic,


Straight legs but bent tee pieces.

In with the wheel, bash em straight against the wall, out with a block of wood and bend the discs back to shape
while we are at it.

F3 rad is fail, could have made a bracket to join up the top mount (bottom one were fine) but didn’t have time. F2 rad
got globs of chemical metal.

It Runs! (look hard and you can see the mist/smoke/condensation)

Future project? they fit quite nicely with the original fairing mounts too…

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Back from the holiday, got a day and a half to fix up the Runner or right this damage to the cbr:

Looks like its gonna rain all day tomorrow aswell, probably do the Runner first but that will need running in so maybe just a quick job and slash the cbr together, was going to paint it white, seems Im outta time.

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Yep 33 crashes, a silver citreon xsara ran a red light at speed and nailed me. brusied me arse, aldi pants didn’t have padding right where i landed, motocross/stomping boots saved me leg (again!)
bruise developing on my elbow right now, and my right foot may not be as good as my first assessment.

front forks are not to bad, but the tee peices are shot, radiator holed, exhaust (allready crumbly) busted, rear subframe bent, and that makes the frame a write off.

To fix: hacksaw off the subframe and weld on a stubby rear end (and a rack for the pizza box) nother rad, bend front straight again, exhaust too rotten to fix so i might as well make a turbo maifold and boost it.
might get about 2500 from the MIBI, since it such a low milage example (28000 on the clock,

off another bike,)

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Well finally have solid rear engine mount, rear brakes and I’ve even had time to make an exhaust!

badly made rear mount, it just hooks on the lip of the exhaust, passes on all the vibes to the handbrake where i bolted it to the car, will change it soon but…

I’m actually very unhappy about the sound, nice burble at tick over and great even on the over run, but floor it and it sound restricted. Will bust out the baffle next day but if that fails i will have a look around for a better flowin silencer, I don’t know what this pipe is off but internal diameter suggests a 400 possible. I do have a titanium zx10r one that might do..

I’ve actually ripped this stuff out and changed it again for better stuff, really have to do the other mount soon, just need a really long extension bar for the upper engine mount.

Took a while to get the brakes right, was missing a spring (who lost that? doh!) and in the struggle to get the offside hub off i loosed the bearing from the hub, didn’t catch that one straight away, also the auto handbrake adjusting mechanism need adjusting..

slipped the dash back in too, have dedided what I’m gonna do (will change my mind next week again lol) Since the starlet is too small for bike/car towing and too big for a bike engined/track racer/shopping getter, I’m gonna fit the 1.3 4ef and sell it on, so it’s gotta be a litte bit pretty, and pass an nct. Hope to get about €1700, for a big car killer/ track day hero that can be insured by a 17 with out a clue (and cheap tax!) he’ll wrap it around a poll ina week..

Once thats all done, gotta get me a 30 year old pickup (saw a 6300cc diesel amercian truck go for £1000 last night on ebay) cheap tax and good hauling power, and a gsxr1100. turbo the gsxr run the chassis into the ground, yoink the engine out and shove it in a tiny car (in the rear obv.) saw a matiz yesterday €500 nct till 09 tax with engine trouble.

A matiz will fit in the back of an American truck no sweat.

All it needs is a two door mod (streched front doors obv.) and i reackon those pop up headlights would be sweet too.

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