RXS, fitting a different rear wheel.
But first, why is this tire bigger then the engine?
Had to let the air out again to fit the wheel.
the loncin honda 50 (110) is pretty much finished won’t have any light (no coil for it) and the gearing needs changing, it’s very revvy at 30mph
Right, here i have finished filing open the swingarm to accept the larger axle.
then i tired drilling out the holes in the rxs sprocket to fit the gs rear hub, stuff was way too tough, finally did it with a round file, although it’s not very accurate, it will do until i can afford a new custom one to fit.
Used my flat edge thing that i use for putting in engines, and measured thickness of the rim the offset of the edge of the rim to the sprocket face, from the sprocket face to the outer side of the spacer.
found out the center of the rim, and figure that i needed to move the gs rim over by 3mm (100.5mm to 97.5mm) also the sprocket needed moving in by 6mm
Well got that done in no time, just have to machine 3mm off the spacer and that moved the wheel over, the worst problem right here with taking metal off the sprocket carrier is that the sprocket is no longer aligned with the bearing, i may find a 6mm wider bearing to fit in, it also may cause no trouble at all, but the bearings were fairly seized in the first place so i expect some failure anyway.
Next the boring job of painting and hole fixing, i am amazed this thing kept any petrol in it at all.
That took a lot longer to do then to put up these two images. Filling the dents and holes will take even longer 🙁
Back to the rear end, wheel all in now, made up the spacer on the right myself with a file and hacksaw it did not need to be as accurate as the left spacer.
Had to beat the old chain adjuster straight(er) to avoid touching the carrier (despite take 3mm off that as well)
Now with the tank in silver and most of the wheels, might i go with silver all over? was talking the other day and changed my mind again about the black/yellow idea for the wheels think i should do them a dark almost bronze gold now. Dunno.
head stem lengthening
€20 to make chop that and make up a piece to go in and align everything up
Chamfered everything for the welding
Lovely deep penetrated welds, quickly ground the excess back and slapped it on to the bike, i has a solid front end now!
Worked on the back end after that, nothing new done just loads of measuring.
Ted made a valid point today, my poor starlet is probably eleiglible for calssic insurance! this means i might spend some money and actually keep this car.
Bombardier 125, RXS100 paint stripping.
Well the tee-peices are at the local engineering place, will cost me €25 to lenghen the stem, not to bad but once thats done gotta go shorten the forks. hope thats a little easier.
Brother got this for free, it’s massive for a 125, will try and put it in a aprilla rs125 frame. it’s from a go kart, check out the twin chain sprocket on the drive shaft! it had how much power?
quick inspection, shows it to be quite beaten up, but it should run quite fast for a short while.
with the engineering up to some one else i started on the boring bits, paint stripping!
Very manky wheels. they were always like this i never touched them.
What colors? since the tank tail piece and fairing are going to be red, i was thinking all yellow, then maybe black with yellow rim’s and now i think i have decided on black all over with the face of the spokes in yellow.
Left over nitromors was put on the tank. the paint has loads of lacquer on it. very tough.
See the little dark spot in the rust? hole 🙁
That loncin’s gearchange has found a new place to work, we shall see how it goes when i can ride this bike again.
Next Update i’ll shall have a few pics of my latest car! i’ll give you two hints: it’s french and slow, take a guess!
Rxs front disc brake woes, 110cc honda 50,
Well it was still there in the morning.
So i got a start on the seat.
Fit’s lovely.
got distracted, need to cut off a bit of the aluminum side casing if i want to leave that footpeg on.
Had a break, remember that green loncin thing? yep engine barely in, the frame needs a little more angle grinder kisses.
Made better (easier to weld) brackets for the rear of the seat and tided up the front mount too.
mmm i can sit on it now with out holes appearing in my bum
Rear frame will have to be narrowed and pointed up ever so sightly.
loncin 110 engine is in! electric’s to be sorted now.
any one wanna buy some tires and wheels?
Polished it up, fitted new clutch cable, sorted a pair of standard handle bars and a mind blowing amount of other little things, it is now finally advertised.
Whilst trying to fix the front end bodgery of the rxs, this gn125 with it’s 32mm fork and proper pinch bolt upper yoke got broken.
Chrome is not in the best condition, but the big problem is all that length!
Just needs some ape’s, forward controls, replace the rear springs with a bar of steel, or maybe someone to hit me in the ass with a hammer it’s all the same really.
Where i want the front to be. 32mm forks are just the right size but there is just no way i can use em and even if i spent the time and money to shorten them the chrome is a little too shabby.
So back to fixing the 30mm front end (off a gs125 suzuki if you are wanting to know) hmm first things first the stem will need lengthening by approximately 1cm this is possible for me to do and might happen soon, not happening right away as i don’t have any money but soon, then i will have to get oily and take apart the forks to see how and where to shorten them, there are about the right length with the preload spacers taken out but there is sod all suspension travel. if i can sort the travel with out raising the ride height at all, i may just convert the top yoke (which is just a pressed piece of flat steel) into a proper pinch bolt setup and allow the forks to slide up a bit.
Rxs100 rearsets and micron pipe
Spent ages with the file getting the mating surfaces of the rxs downpipe and micron pipe to match this close.
10mins to weld up. Quite happy with it, was a bit difficult to spot weld lying on the ground but once sorted it turned out lovely.
partially stripped bike. Frame needs paint and lots of wire need cutting off.
Left hand foot peg on, same mounting style as the right hand one, but I had to drill a small hole in frame to do it. This time i had enough space to leave on the caps that cover the swing arm bushes, previous rxs had totally worm them out.
Shiny right hand peg, foot peg is solid so that make the kick start useless, happily i like push starting.
Found a 30mm carb to replace the 22mm. it’s perfect. Don’t know if i will go the whole way and fit the massive read cage with a light cylinder porting. Want to actually drive this thing out right speed can wait a while.
Tire has rotted away. with the rear brake banjaxed and wheel in shite condition anyway the whole lot with be replaced with a gs125 wheel to match the front.
Having a problem with the seat situation at the mo can’t decide between rgv125 front or rear seat or a cbr250 (mc22) rear seat. But i did however start up the rxs for a bit and listen to the new pipe. it’s fecking magical sounding.
Huge post
Got to Teds first thing, Sean laid this thing on me,wanted me to weld a nut to the crank to get it apart, buggered the bolt i welded to it and then twice buggered the nut i welded to it and then the bolt again when i welded a lever to it. Not Gonna Budge.
Fixed horrible throttle, made clutch work, but it’s not very nice.
They are multiplying in there.
A good shot.
Went for that drive on the bandit, carburation is all over the place was running on three for a while and wouldn’t pull cleanly at the top of the rev range, obviously no one jetted it up when that pipe was fitted.
List of shit thats wrong:
01.Brakes rusted solid. (Fixed)
02.Fork seal leaking
03.Horn broken
04.Choke lever broken (won’t bother fixing i think)
05.Clutch cable seized (Worked on all day, still FUBAR, update, it broke 🙁
06.Head bearings loose(Fixed and loads of grease added too)
07.Bent handlebars (Fixed, fourth set on it now)
08.Clutch switch broken( won’t bother with this either)
09.Clutch adjuster crushed (Fixed)
10.Indicator bulb missing
11.Tank needs repaint
12.Front tire needed (Fixed)
13.Rear tire need to be bedded in (Balled up rubber from a burnout still stuck to tire)
14.Scottoiler not working (Fixed)
15.Head Bearing lower needs grease (Fixed)
16.Kink in chain
17.New number plate
18. Find oil leaks
19.Oil is still all white
20.Oil throttle cable (Fixed)
21.Wheels need to be chemically cleaned
22.Whole bike need de-greaseing
23. I’m sure I’ll find some more. (in fact i did but i have forgotten them again)
All that was a couple of weeks ago, since then i have been busy fixing the garden up we need space for more garages lol.
Saved this, gotta bring it back to the go kart track some day this summer. Obviously with out any sort of cleaning being done.
(Right to left)trike,rxs100,rgv125,runner180,three honda frames,nrg50,three very rusty honda pressed steel frames,two cb650’s,xt350,runner125, pile of rs125’s and spare car tires. Theses are the good ones we kept. Saved the runner 125 because it’s front fork should fit the nrg50, and the left over engine case and frame will be a good starting point for any runner 180 mods.
loncin 107cc, the next big honda 50 steptru rally is about 2 months away, guess what engine ted will be wheeling about in? also he promised to help push on with that nsr/trike thing.
I planted a tree!
Hope it survies.
Saved from scrapman, rg80 foot rest converted to work on a rxs100.
Can you spot it yet?
How about now?
yep rgv125, this one i had and aircooled rd375 engine fitted, but back in the day i had no way of makeing the exhausts fit.
Whipped off the front end, saveing it for a future project.
Garden Cleared! the metal here filled an entire 4 axle 12 wheel truck. and the place still looks like shite.
So garden done for now, back to work, Sarges bike complied bastarding clutch broke.
Undid the whole front end, I seem to remember sarge fitting new head bearings. either he only did the top one or he just never actually put any grease on it.
Don’t like the old rg80 foot rest arrangement.
Chopped it all up and straighted the peg. ran out of time to do the other side.
So there, i’ve updated, ya happy now steve? 😛
More rxs100 bashing and piles of rubbish
Yeah snow.
Big rg125 carb probably going to my cousins tzr125 project. Yeah reading this choco?
Spare plastics pile.
Spare metal pile.
I literally have to dig for some of those rxs parts. with a shovel.
Found a nice tail piece, no idea what it is off but it’s perfect.
Two light coats of silver metallic and we are sorted.
Test fitment of seat, this is the rgv125 seat, a nice seat but lots of work to fit
and a bit too wide.
Rgv125 passenger seat. Angle’s a bit wrong.
and theres hole’s in it, sat on it for ages afterwards getting the footrest position right, got a wet bum.
Still load of chopping to do, front needs to be lower, will sort that after the exhaust, fairing needs the sides chopped off and put much further forward.
Whilst digging I found a right angle carb inlet to match that 28mm carb, interesting, might go for it, it won’t be in my knees way it will stick out a bit like a Harley’s. See that rusty mess on the seat? a college project.
The pivot was made of stainless steel.
After a bit of hammering and the wire wheel, it came out looking no worse then the rest of the bike, perfect slop free gear changes 🙂
I only need two of these wire’s, am going to run a quick attach head lamp like an endurance racer, won’t need a low beam, who would with 6v electrics?
Instanous looks improvement with the handle bars on. God its so narrow to sit on!
New pipe has to go on, the line where i needed to cut was marked with tape,
got it pretty well, just need fileing back now to make it perfect, I don’t have a proper purge welding system so the better the join (no gaps to fill) the smoother the inside will be.
And that was it for that day,
A friend (Frosty) has a tube bender! sweet! only does 7/8″ not good for make a scratch built car but would do nicley for a bike frame!
dt175 parts and 17 times crashed rxs100
Got it from ebay, didn’t realise the combustion chamber was offset, still it’s in good condition and was cheap, a good start to project rxs175
I think this is actually my old rxs100, I might resurrect this one so that the frame numbers match, or perhaps it is too far gone. Some bits will be saved off it anyway like the rear sets and the tuned barrel.
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.
