useless extra wheels
Raggin around on that quad today, i mostly had it on two wheels all the time, it didn’t worry me like i thought it would, very smooth transition from 4 to 3 to 2 wheels. Actually it was quite enjoyable.
So that got me thinking again about trike design’s. I’ve always thought that the converted bike types were way to high and would just tip over at the wrong moment, but now?
These are too tall, but i think that the transition on to 2 wheels (lifting the inner) wouldn’t be so bad, might actually be fun, and if i fit super narrow tyres their won’t be enough side grip to lift the wheel also the other problem is the weight is too far forward, CoG needs to be between the rear wheels if i wanna go around a corner at more then 5mph so although moving the engine is lots of work i could move my self way back over the rear axle along with the tank and battery. It sounds like a compromise but i don’t think it’s so bad and i now have a spare cbr to play with 
If i design the rear wheel to lift in corners i can do away with a diff and keep the rear axle simple by making it (like a quad) non tilting. Might bash me about a bit on really bumpy roads so I’ll make the foot boards really low so i can stand up easily and move with the bumps.
Fabric roof and a pillar less windscreen, won’t need the jago then, that’ll sell quite well cos of the escort parts, still gonna finish the jago first.
Reverse trikes, awesome looks, awesomely scary when the rear tyre rolls to it edge causing massive oversteer. awesome brown and black streaks.
I wanna quad!
This quad is belong to the guy who own the xt350 frame which i want to put the ypvs 350 engine into, so to get the xtdr project going i must fix this quad as payment for the xt frame!
2.5psi in the tyres and 38kg max load, tiny thing.
had to clean out the carb, bit of compressed air bish bash bosh.
Electrical troubles, turned out it was a another switch at the back for the adult to pull on in case the kid gets away on the bike. And some fool had wired the killswitch on permanent.
Rubber hose thing blocking up the main jet as well and old fuel.
Fun!
Sean’s get the exhaust sorted, subframe may have to go up a bit to clear it all.
whole lotta red frame
went dull over the weekend in the shed, to much moisture in the air i reckon, heated it in the sun and gave it a second coat.
then put it in my homebuilt oven, get lots of warm sun in there 
And today, check that redness, triflow gate paint ftw!
Started on the main frame too, it’s in the car now to will take it out on friday/thurs give it the second coat and shove it back in the car to set, might thin a layer of paint to make sure the see able bits are the best. or not.
Bombardier 125 in an Aprilia rs125 frame
My version of nabs “island mist” photos
I call it “steaming turd”
Bombardier rotax 125 rescued from a go kart and shoved into a rs125 frame? sweet!
Brother is building this thing so who knows what it going to look like when done, asked steve for a lend of a reverse cylinder tzr250 pipe to see if it might do.
On with the cbr rebuild
Spent 20 buying some etch primer for the frame and engine. what the hell was i thinking? am i really gonna notice that the paint isn’t very good while im riding? probably only crash it with such nice paint anyway.
Also I am not spending days cleaning the whole thing up. No. I’d have it built in the same amount of time.
did use a little nitromors to clear the old nitromors off the frame.
tada! rusty gate red, god I hope it’s doesn’t turn out like a clown car.
tt-01 9.6v first bash
body wasn’t wide enough to fit over the wheels.
so i just gave up on the idea and quickly slashed open the wheel archs
High mounted it for the high speed off road rally look.
And went and had a little fun! i love the handling, steering is worth nothing it’s all done on the throttle, the diffs are wide open so it’s defeated by pebbles, crap got every where, needs a protective tub, even with a larger 9.6v battery pack wedged in there on it side high the handling wasn’t really affected mostly i think because the tyres are so rock solid and lacking in grip, some longer shock and proper steering joints will improve the whole car lending it a more scale dirt rally look to the handling.
I did the wheels better by running the marker over them while running the engine, much better looking (i’ll get pics some other day)
Only thing annoying me now is the remote, the one on the left is working fine but it’s tiny and my finger can fall off the brake trigger, the carisma one just glitches for no reason. Maybe the guts can be transferred?
Saw an rmx250 on gumtree the other day, nearly had a bikgasam, would it be better than a gsxr1100?
tt-01e rc and cbr6 fix up
So the tt-01e kit turned up in the post finally, just after i kinda gave up on meccano thing, still might see the light of day some time in the summer ya never know.
Didn’t take any pics while putting it togther, too busy following instructions for once.
Done!, rock hard tyres and blackened rims with a permenant marker
One of the white one’s was bent and all the other rims had glued on rally block tyres, so my single chrome wheel went on.
Want to put on the scooby body but i figured that I’d be crashing and bashing anyway so I started with a body i don’t care for, think I’ll channel the body down 2cm’s and raise the front arch to clear the wheel. the rear will be over the wheel much like an extreme touring car.
Definition of a well used tyre. Got my damn moneys worth I tells ya.
170 width conti tyre went in fine, it might rub the right hand side of the hugger a bit will find out if it ever rolls again.
Dinner time!
I must admit the for a while there during the snow I was thinking of spending the insurance money on a van. But I’m better now, gsxr1100 and while I’m on that the cbr should get a turbo.
Rednex FTMFW
Seen this? Gone here? no? weil git an do ur reading boy!
Ahem, enough of that for a while been offered a tuk tuk (YeeHAW!!! sorry..) think i can only insure a 50cc on a bike policy, we shall see much insurance company twisting shall be done.
River of ice in the back garden, no amount of hopping around will make me go out and do much work, SAD is biting hard, hasn’t been this cold since i was born!
New pulley for the runner 180. no chrome on it hmm…
Noticed the acceleration picked up a little bit more, also bought harder clutch springs but didn’t install them, ice + race starts just a little too extreme right now
Post crash analysis
Apart from the cat scaring the shit outta me on a dark night, causing me to jerk my back into spasm and stopping my breathing again, I’ve been fine!
Christmas has come and gone and we’re now getting back to normal, haven’t done much too much ice and cold out there, went up to the garage to-day, 2″ thick sheet ice all up the road, The runner is light so at a crawl speed i made it fine.
Got my claim form sent off, the other guy has admitted liability so all that stands in my way of money is the efficiency of allianze. Almost positive that i want a gsxr1100w (watercooled 93-98). the clipons are above the top yoke so easily turned into a mile muncher, if i need the seat a little lower a gsxr750 tail piece and seat ought to fit (much nicer look too) 155bhp is probably way over the top, but hey throttle works both ways and I’ll still probably have the cbr6. Which is getting a fresh start with a bright red frame and a gunmetal grey engine and body work.
Managed to get the rear shocks on the jago, too damn frozen to do any more.
The whole point of going up to the garage today was to check if i had any delivery, and i did, yay! Still waiting for the ebay seller to get back to me about that servo saver, mailed him again today. Would have the meccano RC going now but for the saver saver.
