bajaj handbrake
been rolling over myself pushing the bajaj around checking the front brakes 🙂
Now i can pull it up with out banging my knuckles
one more piece of welding done.
that cat is badass, i just went in and called all three dogs wussies for catching only one rabbit between em.
excuse the wierd pic size
bajaj, whats left?
gear change
rear brakes
channel for starter handle
channel for cables
seat
put it all back together. i’ll do it tomorrow.
Rolling wreck bajaj
First the brake pads for sarahs car turned up. so i did those.
Thne i began to think “A pm55 is cheap if you can provide your own silencer” so i must find out the pcd, the silencer bwlow is off an aprillia rs250
This rd350 turned out to be a bit of a dog underneath everything, 250 barrels (rebored and ported) house hold wiring zip ties and broken bolts along with dead mains, then again is is 30 years old.
So finally got started on the bajaj, mounted up the fuel tank, must sort a knob of some sort to turn the tap.
then whipped the body off to get at more cables.
so far the front brake is in and the handbrakes. the clutch is also in but the sheath needs shortening/attention before it’ll work, choke is done, throttle I was about start with but then i ran out of time.
Whats left? gotta cut a chunk out of the body for the cables to pass through and a small section out of the frame to allow the starter handle to work. Find some bolts to hold the body on and lastly engineer hydraulic rear brakes a foot gear change and, of course, a seat.
Why a runner blows up.
The root cause was the water pump not being turned any more, weather it was the bolts falling out of the oil pump causing the wheel not to engage the pump or the wheel wearing out then the bolts falling off the oil pump I’m not sure which happened first. Parts are on the way anyway from http://www.psntuning.co.uk/ should be here next week.
rotax 123 barrel on runner 180 cases? i wish
I Will get this thing rolling tomorrow, i must!
In anticipation of fiddling with the carb i’ve put back in the standard 15.5g (i think there that weight anyway) rollers, slower ratio changes make it easier to diagnose problems.
Moar two-strokes
Got a few thing done over the last couple of day, even cleaned a bike!
Massive tuk tuk bars on an nrg.
Gasp nrg bars on a tuk tuk!
Old bars didn’t want to let go of the cable with out a fight, realised the cable was mangled by this point but had to show it who’s boss!
Vintage dt400 supplied brake lever.
May weld the bars on with a little more pull back, also need to notch the stem a bit deeper, couldn’t get the tuk tuk to the garage (camper van in the way) and the rain scared me off taking the electic grinder to the tuk tuk.
Worried about the cbr’s engine oil’s life if I do to many short trips to FAS, so decieded to take out the runner 180, no engine oil to mayonnaise in this engine.
Cleaned it in the hope it might help with starting. It worked!
Went to the new kinsale hillclimb on the runner, chased bigger bikes the whole way there 🙂
Three Wheeled Shenanigans
Cad course is working out great for me, found a guy their who own his own engineering shop, i’m designing a supercharger for the runner and the tuk tuk 🙂
In the last month or two i have actually done something, niki’s intruder chain for one was quite a bit worn out.
Head is off the gpz500, gasket looked okay, hmm
Found this in the garage, nice pipe eh?
Manly carbs stick out sideways. folding pegs for heroic corner action.
Oil cooler for the massive engine, not sure what size but it has to be at least 125 hope fully 150cc
And a top box, it has to have a top box lol
Sarge spent 3500 euro and this pile of shite.
neither of em can actually fit in the sidecar..
i nicked the seat 🙂
5 wheeler?
5 seater!
I’d like to meet the man who design this steering damper, then do something horrible to his right arm.
Wherer to start with the slagging? the front.
front brakes siezed. (sarge didn’t notice)
steering damper only works going right. (design fault)
steering damper limits lock. (design fault)
no reverse.
engine puking rusty coolant all over it’s self. (sarge didn’t notice)
rear air shocks have been replaced with hagons from a kiddies tricyle (not a millimetre of suspension travel,sarge didn’t notice)
the chair suspension is off a trailer, indespension, no damping at all.(design laziness)
rear brake (the only brake) requires you to lift your entire leg up to reach it and then stand on it and hope you don’t lock up. (pain in right leg, sarge thinks he’s having a heart attack)
over sized rear tyre rubs drive shaft.
gearchange design is so cave man, harley would be proud.
engine shake’s like a bastard under 2000 when you open up the throttle.
engine barely pull’s first gear, new clutch soon.
can’t see out the windscreen.
the wiring.
neither of them can properly fit on the bike, the drivers back rest actually squashes sharon right into her own back rest, and the back of sarges back rest is just a rusty pointy bolt.
I’m sure i could extend this list by alot, but the vitriol is running out.
Whats it like to drive? painful, the steering is direct like a go kart, but is stiffer to correct it to the right thanks to that fucking steering damper, so one arm hurts more then the other, neck hurts from craning it to look over the screen. your whole body is knocked left to right by the chair, can you imagine trying desperately to hold the bars straight, while the their swaying (not turning) violently? it’s like a permanent tank slapper. I’d love to see what a properly done sidecar might handle like, if my tuk tuk manage’s to out handle this thing i may revise my statement about all sidecars designers mothers.
So sarge again has blown a chunk of some one elses money on a pile of shite, what the hell could i have done with €3500? in six months i could have turned it into 10,000 easily provided i didn’t get distracted by building a twin engined hayabusa unicycle. topped with an inflatable duck.
Bajaj, not yet found a use for it.
It’s very close to being ridden really, be a while before the hydraulic parts of the brakes are working but for a test spin around the garden the cable front and handbraked rear should be fine, just gotta find a few more bolts and a seat and touch up a few of the welds.
But what will i use it for?
Sad News :(
Starting a full time CAD course next monday, 32 weeks of study means no work done. all projects moth balled. Might do something interesting in CAD and post that, clean finger nails for the next 8 months or as long as i can stay away from the shed.
Another surprise in the garage, streetfightered gsxr1100
Too cheap for proper bars? can’t imagine the brake/clutch reservoirs work very well either.
I’d have a standard one please, where the hell is he going with that rear brake pedal?.
I leave my bike at teds place for one night.
Welding tan
I can’t take a pic but my left arm is like a fecking lobster and stinging like a bitch, however the tuk tuk is very very nearly done, now does any one have a copy of octopussy? can’t for the life of me find any clip of the tuk tuk chase scene, I swear it had a z1 engine stuffed in.
Turned it right way up to continue the welding.
CAD Cardboard Aided Design, think i’ll get myself killed if i tell that joke in CAD class..
Very dead headlight, gone now.
Should have built this patch first, cos I’m after dropping it in there now, magnet ought to fish it out later
rail’s welded to gether very nicely although you can’t quite tell in these pics.
Dragged out the cb1100r to tidy some stuff away, noticed how similar out red frames are…
Played with some of the jago parts, think i’m supposed to take out the roll bar bushs and then replace them with the HD one’s in the bag, probably won’t until the the standard ones are worn/soft.
Found these rear master cylinders off the cbr6, should do perfect for the tuk tuk’s brakes, the plan is to make two pedals rather like a tractor so i can brake independently each wheel, ought to help getting around corners 😀 If they push too much fluid for the drum slave cylinders one master cylinder will do, too old for skids and slides any way 😛
Sold the starlet, needed space for the tuk tuk. All thats left of my starlet is the gear knob, it shall live one in the jago!
Bajaj frame nearly done
No puppys this week, it was in out and leg it, no time for photos.
Ran out of wire almost straight away,
Frosty helped make this plate.
Then I made the other side and the bottom (top in this pic) plate, New wire is very splatery,  grabbed a corner and lifted the whole thing up an there was no flex,  success!
Next day now there is four more patches to make and some final welding, then its good to roll.
More new bajaj frame
but first a dog.
And now the tuk tuk again:
Need to bend over the first bit I taked on, glad it wasn’t fully welded.
Much grinding (in fact most of the day) got me to this point.
A little bit more grinding and voila!
It’s quite off, tried moving it with a brush handle but no luck, need something more manly like a fork leg.
And that’s where I left it for the day, was very hot and sweaty after all that 😛
