Runner 180 kart airbox
Made a thick adaptor to fit the airbox’s filter
Then with some fiddling about it’s pretty close to fitting, still had to use the heat gun to get some clearance around the rear tyre and a little bit more around the shock for good measure too.
Cardboard mock up of the brace, didn’t get any photos of it done in steel, needs another bit to give it full strength. Nice spot to put the number plate if i get rid of the rear splash guard. It looks a bit too wide but it goes no further then the passenger peg or the kick start.
The mudguard that was attached to the engine is gone, can’t be bothered cutting it up to suit, and it does feck all anyway
As you can see in the last pic, it should fit with out body mods, and it sounds perfect,just a hint of induction roar, will have to get the new job done, get the body work on and go for a proper test ride.
i can just get to the kickstart, mines modded to be a bit higher, but now i have a working choke with the oko so a standard lever would be ok now.
Nice day, wasn’t it?
Same guy who bought that pita LC, bought this but was actually ok, just needed every single bolt tightened up and the clutch lever was fixed so the clutch could be adjusted properly.
150cc engine all aluminium frame massive brakes and pretty good suspension, head stock felt a little loose and the front tyre felt like the profile was too flat. I’d have one with a two stroke engine.
chopped all this up to make my computer table, will screw it together tomorrow.
Half fixed the rusty rear end of the tuktuk, will finish fixing it by continuing the chopping around the corner until it’s all solid.
Some news
Well i had job last week, i now know more about electric motors and i hate boss’s again.
So before i set off to work we fixed up choco’s R1 with some spares tyres, it fell off the jack and then choco fell off on the way home too (busy playing with the steering damper)
Still last week, i decided before i started work i could get to know a bit more about electricity, queue a massive 63cc two-stroke powered generator that could only cough out 650w
It made power fine but it was a bit unstable, so i pointed the finger at the capacitor. then put it back together
A week of work happen, got quite a sore wrist from it, not doing that again.
Some rs125’s show, up, this one has a 160 rear tyre, might do to roll about on with the gsxf600
Also moved into a new house aswell (busy? yeah) which had a weighing scales, promptly nicked and used to weight the bajaj, 202kg but the scales are out by 7.4% at best so it’s really 217kg and it still needs brakes and a roof and some more metal welded in. Might top out at 250kg i hope, still 100 kilo less then the info i found on the web. 350kg my ass.
Instead of properly fixing things, that will most likely need another pair of hand to do the lifting, decided a bit of cleaning and painting was in order
Still had to do some welding, used the bit of metal that used to hold down the seat to brace the passenger side holdy-iny-thingy
Then painted it red coz thats what was on top of the paint pile, phone cam can’t handle the redness but its alright actually
The bleeding wounds look was spoiled a bit when i accidentally brushed it up against a bush while moving it into the sun to dry. Am i bothered? no.
Will have to pick up some black paint again, and brake lines.
bajaj tuk tuk
First up i found an rxs engine stuffed into a ysr gag bike.
Guy who did the pocket rocket a while back, bought this a few years ago, there may be plans in the works…
like a proper expansion pipe at least.
Then i set about attacking the tuk tuk, gotta finish some of these projects!
immediately followed by a quick break to stare at the gxsf600, after decided against the rgf125 track bike (at least for mondello) and a quick look to confirm the cbr is missing way too many bits, the gsxf looks like its getting the chop, probably SRAD suspenders, pod filters, rs125/250 tail end maybe a wider cbr6 rear wheel, plenty of time for a decent rear tyre to turn up somewhere.
Back to work you! weld on the gear change pivot.
all done! gotta find a really coarse nut to fit on the bolt.
extra bits that needed chopping off.
Did it run? fuck yea! lined it up against the garage wall for safety, gingerly selected first, clutch works! bring up the rev and ease out the throttle… and away it goes in reverse AWAY from the safety wall! 😀
got a fair bit of poke, pull ted and myself up the hill no bothers, no body else around to take our pic tho 🙁
cables are terrible, so the gearchange is not the best, also the throw of the change is massive, bit of adjustment there needed, needs an airfilter it’s too lean to run with out a little choke, some brake hoses, a master cylinder(got a cbr one), window rubbers, Â another hoop for the roof, a roof(canvas), some where to put my feet, some where to put my arse, bucket of paint, set of tyres, tax and insure.
I think it needs a built in bbq in the back, sausages burgers and biking anyone?
will i ever finish a project?
Finally got around to balancing the cbr carbs, massive difference, much more bottom end pull and smoother then a cream covered 16 year old.
The last couple of days have been spent getting teds r1 up to speed for a trackday, don’t it look very professional? utter fluke that seans tyre warmer were blue.
All that trackday work, was fun, but it was giving ted ideas, he suggested getting seans (mums really)rs250 going and take that, don’t think i’d be happy trashing someone elses fragile two-stroke around, the tzr250 3ma? nope that’s leading a pampered life as an investment piece. the high mileage cbr6? missing all the engine spacers, a fork leg and some decent disc’s, plus i fear it would be expensive to fix after a proper blow up (inevitable really) and it needs a decent 160 rear tyre, which i’d just have to buy. the gsxf600 teapot? there’s more of it there but a lot of it is corroded, new forks, new shock odd size wheels.. What’s left the runner? rxs? four star moped? not quite fast enough. The rgv125? just need loads of welding, can chop off loads of road stuff, only expense is decent hh brake pad (only two not four like the others!) and some second hand 125 slicks. Least if i fall off that thing nobody’s gonna cry.
Now if i could just remember where i put it…
Moto2 challenge
How in the hell did they make the image handling in wordpress worse? any way no moaning, back to work, looks like very little done today but in fact a ton of spacers and measuring was done, the wheels are now beige because inventor is rubbish at threading and can’t handle too many complex textures.
So if you look closer you’ll notice the brakes are carbon and we have some sexy disc carriers.
Whats with the oval tubes? decided on a hossack front end and after much research found out what’s the best travel path for the front axle, similar to the rear but mirrored, so that we can nail the front tyre to the ground with the transient load…. engineering terms are so sexy..
Moto2 challenge
For the sake of my portfolio, i’m gonna make a moto2 spec bike, only gonna spend the spare days at it.
Of course i couldn’t get my hands on the actual moto2 book with the very handy model of the cbr600rr engine, so i just made do with some internet research for the engine. sorted the wheelbase the seat height and the tyres today, the seat is the wonkiest but the wheels are very nice carbon fibre. the actual chassis (the fun part!) i haven’t made up my mind yet, a hossack front end would the best of the conventional design (it still needs a frame) but a tesi/veyron would lightest (sod all frame) however the veyron type need special wheels big bearing and would be a little difficult to squeeze the rad the exhaust and the shock in the same place.
also i think that 190/65 rear tyre might be a bit too tall, have to look into that, one site said it was 55, more research!
the runner the rxs and the tzr
Many updates today.
link pipe for the runner 180/kart airbox experiment has turned up, just have to dig the runner out now..
Got started on sorting the rxs fork. after some measureing i’l be taking 4cm off the length.
picture to remind me how to put them back together.
tzr gearchange lever needed lengthening to suit the aftermarket rearsets.
scrap paper calculations.
scrap metal for the chop
magnet holds it all together quite nicely while i weld.
20mm increase on the long part and 5mm on the short part, there should be no difference in lever throw and i can now change with my foot rather then my big toe nail.
then i sat around looking at this r6, i did not measure the front end to see if it would fit the cbr6….
TZR250 3ma
Well finally got to ride it, didn’t go over 4k, don’t have a number plate so don’t want any sort of attention, it was lovely and crisp gotta find that plate and taste the powerband!
list of thing that need fixing:
the gearchange lever, way too short
handle bar grips worn out
rear brake pads
coolant over flow bottle
set of plastics/paintjob and put some air in the tyres
thats not a bad list all in all..
also cleaned the cbr6 abit.
random coolant bottle which is not right for the tzr
RXS is out of the shed at my house and moved to the garage, ought to get started on that too.
