rxs100 bucket or cafe racer
Australian bucket racing a collection of small commuter bike being ragged around a tight track. don’t see a lot of rxs’s probably because they weren’t imported to Australia proper.
But i have one so lets get silly.
seat, foot rests, side stand, brake pedal and center stand all off (heavy things they were)
and to think i used to worry about keeping those tank badges on..
paint was quite hard, seemed to have at least two coats of lacquer
Temporary bare metal cover, i think i will paint it all white when i get it finished
off with the pillion pegs.
Getting serious. decided to make the exhaust first as thats the hardest to move, pegs and the rear brake pedal can be shaped to suit the pipe. This pipe is a tzr125 one.
you can see some of the other pipes in the back round there both of them from rg125′s one a gamma the other one a fun, and the standard rxs one as well.
Sticks out too far can’t, tuck it in any more, the rear wheel get’s in the way (tzr had a long wheelbase), all in all probably two much work to get right.
Remembered i had this bought years and years ago, the down pipe that came with it was for a kh125, which obviously didn’t fit here.
bit of cutting and shutting here, never did this years ago because i only had a arc welder back then, got a mig today.
skinny, loads of elbow down ground clearance, suits the bike i think.
Just imagine the front a little lower, the ace bars, fairings and seat hump. yeah okay you need lots of imagination.
The old seat very very rusty.
Short term plan, just get it fun for the summer, big engine plans can wait a little while, it’s no fun if it’s broke or in pieces. Doing all this i realise how many skill’s i have aquired over the years, I could not have done this when i was 20. and its not really all that hard.
TGB delivery and introducing ‘the’ RXS100
Two post’s in one hour? I am spoiling you!
More weird bolts, this one is designed to shear it’s own head off.
boringly it all went back together with out a hitch, started and ran fine, a nice little earner for me! (new boots? tax for the car? rsx big bore? how to decide..)
Ted wanted to remove a piece of the lean-to’s wall, it all has to come down for new shed’s and lo and behold this thing!
Some air in the tires, kick the brake caliper.
Doesn’t look good does it?
Would you believe it started? well it did! clutch was stuck and the carb full of crap, but yes it did run.
I like rat cars, but rat motorcycle never seem to have the same balls. so conversion into a stripped out skinny racer
Got some pipes that might do.
Literally dug these ace bars out from under the earth, be fine with a lick of paint.
lower tz350 fairing and honda rs125 upper, might skip the lower, we shall see
and a 28mm carb, just need something of substance to put it onto, i see some nice dt175 barrels out there on evilbay!
Been looking at 50cc racers and found some nice ideas for the way i want to go with the rxs, also Australian bucket racing is helpful.
BTW it is ‘the’ rxs100 beacuse this was my first bike, I rode it for at least 8years (seriously) can’t remember how many time’s i have torn it up think i may dig through the old photos and make a little history note for the old girl. nearly makes you stop before you chop haveing that much history with a bike, but then i remember i have crashed it 17 times, and stipped and rebuilt it over and over again so many time i genuinly think there is no original 93c4030 parts left on that bike in the pictures.
ep70 starlet rear disc conversion pt.3
Been a while, brake bleeding is a bitch.
Can’t be arsed with the original brake lines, there was two flexi lines and a hard line, replaced them with one single flexi line from the from of an Nissan almera.
Still have to chop off those old brake line mounts.
Note the hand brake cable is attached with a bolt with the right length shoulder to allow a free pivot, will have to drill a small hole and add a split pin later for safety.
Need to locate the brake line, probably weld the standard Nissan mount point onto the axle or i might come up with some thing else more simple.
It will look even better with matt black body paint, dark dark grey wheels and nuclear lime calipers.
When i saw this i though it was bent.
But as long as it’s bent on both sides, it good!
Result:
Only been for a short drive everything seems to track fine, so yea for my measuring tape skills, the added weight to the rear suspension did not seem noticeable, braking is fine no lookups but the right rear caliper is siezed so ymmv.
ep70 starlet rear disc conversion pt.2
Floor was not level, may be a bit inaccurate.
Both arms shorten by 81mm
Getting the hub on properly, each caliper mount takes four bolts (overkill, imo) one side needed a little work the other is fecked so another day ill get em in there.
Look like it’s in the right place this time!
Standard panhard rod should mount here..
..but i want it up here, need to shorten the linkage.
Technically it is possible to run it like this.
Only 2″ of ground clearance.
I’d like to place the point higher but this is as far as it goes.
Shortened the panhard rod by 8cm, made a kinda Z cut and shut job to give it strength.
After some measuring (!) i have it welded in place and painted up.
Complete! (brakes are another story)
Looking good! again some other day i will raise the body mount point for the panhard rod. Possibly after i find out the car crab’s like crazy every where. Adjustable panhard rod anyone?
ep70 starlet rear disc conversion.
Right, not getting that Carina, so can’t go changing the engine just yet, want to try and get it done before the 24th of this month but any way though I’d try and get a the rear disc’s on the car once and for all.
You can’t just throw on the hubs and discs from the turbo, the axle/stub is the wrong size, you may be able to find new bearing’s with the right size inner race but i didn’t have the money and i wanted to cut something up!
Before i starting i knew i had to reposition the panhard rod mount over to the other side of the suspension, there just in opposite places from each other on the ep80 and ep70.
Clever me decided to make sure the whole thing fitted with my 13″ wheels. They did by the way.
Panhard rod there in front of the rear axle, attached to the car on the left.
ep80 axle, panhard rod connector thingie on the left.
At this point i measured nearly everything ,axles length, bolt hole sizes, bushing spacing, arm width the lot.
looks like about an inch extra width, i can live with that.
ep70 rear axle for the chop
CHOP!
Some profiling will have to be done to get the stub on the axle, I want it a bit higher to raise the roll center and thus the roll resistance. but as high as I want it and it will clout the chassis so this will do.
It was all going great until this point. the one thing i didn’t measure was the arm length! both ep70 and 80 have the same wheelbase how stupid of me for assuming that the arm were the same length. Nearly chopped out the rear arch’s and turned it into a high rise off roading apoc car.
Then it feckin snowed. bumhats.
At this point i should have given up and either found the right type of axle or spent the money on new bearing to fit a ep70 axle. But sod it if i hadn’t spent the day writing out this plan and measuring everything and doing calculations and shite. Bastard was going on the car.
At least this weld turned out nice, I’ve spent to much time playing with our mig, arc welding is nice,
By the way as it turns out i needed to have the rear arm shortened by 79mm between the snow and moving indoors I had done it by 81mm, tomorrow i have to do the other arm and get it the right place vertically as well. Assuming i can get out there on my bike in the snow.
