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.
Tuesday
Welded up the gaps in my wetal work today, engine comes in and out easly which is a relief. trew on some triflow/hammerite type paint. nearly all the mounts are done with now, the lower rear chain side mount is a bit iffy but that might need alot of reshaping to avoid the chain anyways so i’m gonna leave it for now. might try bargering ted into sorting out the electrics next week. might even start it…
Tuesday
all the mounts are in, need final welding.
With the big stuff nearly done, (the engine has to come out again to finish) started on the time consuming but easy stuff like cables.
here the rear brake setup is installed, but the engine sits to far out for the original brake pedal, so i cut it off, since ted has no right leg this is not really a problem, we can all use the hand brake.
Is that a little bent? can’t find the right clutch cable, i have one that fits the engine but does not reach the bar, it should because the throttle cable can and does reach. need to mod another cable to (probably another clutch cable) to be the brake cable, which will be installed where there front brake lever would normally be.
Winter..
really sucks.
Found this in my back garden, kawasaki 750, needs some head work but is all tidy otherwise. would make a comfy seated tourer for the gf and I.
installed the throttle and oil cables on the trike, too cold wet and sick to do much else. and this project is a shit idea.
nsr80 forks are about the right length, doubt i’ll install em.
Four stars new bikes. TGB’s taiwan golden bee’s. no really.
They needed new batterys after sitting in the warehouse for three months, had good GS batterys too.
Tuesday
well the trikes engine is in, took loads of photos, curseing bikepics.com lack of batch upload now.
started with nsr frame…
…and finished up with these
fiddled with engine placement all morning. hard to do with only one set of hands and a dark garage with a slopeing floor. one of the tires has no air so the trikes nowhere near level.
first a temporary adjustable front mount is tack welded in, it allow the engine to move back forth and sideways, but not twist.
i’ve used this piece of metal for years to align sprocket’s.
taken all these pics so I’m gonna use em!
spilt a lot of oil out of the gearbox when it was upside down, oil breather in built into the top rear engine mount.
first pic with body work on.
if you follow the links and zoom in you might find that the chain is out of alignment, i blame the poor light.
luckily i made some provisions to move the engine sideways with some spacers.
ugly bugger, ain’t it.
the tack welded temporay front mount.
both rear mounts there, top one will be finished next week, engine will have to come out again.
same deal this side, some strenghting may be added to bottom mounts.
can’t really see the chain aligment there. rear sprocket will be changed anyway and i doubt that the new one will be in exactly the same place.
totally wrecked after all that. most of the day was taken up makeing the first tempoary front bracket, plain sailing after that.
Tuesday
Yep changeing my work day to tuesday. dont get too excited. Can get a bit more work done now that the girlfriend is going to college, not that i did a lot today..
My cbr’s chain was a little worn, brand new chain and oil change at 33000miles on this set of clocks.
This is the best way of get the new rivet link on to the chain. much better then bashing head against it like i did last time just before the Scotland trip.
Not much done to the atc, the big hole is all patched up and i put on the wheels, as i pushed it around (i was not makeing engine noises!) i noticed just how bad the understeer is. not gonna need that front brake for sure. better rear brake couldn’t hurt tho.
Next week will see me dicking around trying to get the new engine in, unless some thing else breaks.
Decided to get a cbr1000f, got three reasons,
1. good enough for two up sunday rideing.
2. when i kill it, the brake/front end can live on with the cbr6(plus some other bits).
3. the engine (provided i get a 89 onwards) will be bullet proof and under 1000cc perfect for a cheaply taxed lotus sevensque kit car. just add a turbo!
Sarge made my car really stinky. you think metal can’t retain a smell? you ain’t seen whats in sarges bin bags…..
