runner 180
Had to fix the front tyre of the runner, wheel is too corroded inside to make a good seal. lots of grease and fettling easy work.
while i was there i actually cleaned the wheel and noticed the legs were also furring up, fecking italians.
some left over paint?
Still a little bit wet in the centre there, matt black side panels will go well with other grey panels. eventually paint the wheels orange?
Moar two-strokes
Got a few thing done over the last couple of day, even cleaned a bike!
Massive tuk tuk bars on an nrg.
Gasp nrg bars on a tuk tuk!
Old bars didn’t want to let go of the cable with out a fight, realised the cable was mangled by this point but had to show it who’s boss!
Vintage dt400 supplied brake lever.
May weld the bars on with a little more pull back, also need to notch the stem a bit deeper, couldn’t get the tuk tuk to the garage (camper van in the way) and the rain scared me off taking the electic grinder to the tuk tuk.
Worried about the cbr’s engine oil’s life if I do to many short trips to FAS, so decieded to take out the runner 180, no engine oil to mayonnaise in this engine.
Cleaned it in the hope it might help with starting. It worked!
Went to the new kinsale hillclimb on the runner, chased bigger bikes the whole way there 🙂
Sad News :(
Starting a full time CAD course next monday, 32 weeks of study means no work done. all projects moth balled. Might do something interesting in CAD and post that, clean finger nails for the next 8 months or as long as i can stay away from the shed.
Another surprise in the garage, streetfightered gsxr1100
Too cheap for proper bars? can’t imagine the brake/clutch reservoirs work very well either.
I’d have a standard one please, where the hell is he going with that rear brake pedal?.
I leave my bike at teds place for one night.
Gilera runner rollers
Well, the test spin with just the clutch springs went only mediocre, only difference I could tell was the clutch closing earlier, which made slow speed corners a bit of a pain. Logically if it close’s earlier it should open earlier, but there is no acceleration? DOH! as it revs higher the gearing goes up, it needs lighter rollers! which i handily had to hand. When i went looking for them i also found some high quality malossi clutch springs i had totally forgotten were there, they look like the right diameter for my clutch as well so yep another rebuild 🙂
So, with three 8.7g roller and three standard rollers (least i think there standard) and green clutch springs, it fucking flys, no discernible loss in top speed and loads of get off the line and go. This is how a two stroke should go!
Can’t wait for the xtdr to be going, gotta pull myself up and get started on it, think a fully functioning riot runner 180 could help with that 😀
Gilera Runner 180 clutch springs
But first
Loncin 125 into a vintage 60’s honda 50.
Goes quite well actually, it’s made for the honda 50 ring of kerry challenge, more time would have seen a bigger carb installed for more speed but as it is now it’ll fly up the hills and pull wheelies everywhere.
Right to business, change the clutch springs for faster getaway from the lights.
side case popped off at a click of my fingers I’m so used to doing it, next I have to get the clutch off the rear assembly, no 45mm spanners or sockets to hand so I put it in a vice and used a strap wrench to open it, turned it the other way up and gently opened it the rest of the way because the contra spring will unload the clutch in your face if you aren’t paying attention.
That’s a long contra spring!
My choices from weakest to toughest, left to right, according to the little leaflet. Choose the green ones because they were impossibly tough compared to the original spring. Wrong choice, we shall explain later.
Ninja death star clutch?
With one spring finally on it looks as if the extra diameter of the spring is getting in the way, also it’s nearly impossible to get on.
As shown here, not shown is the other three hands holding the clutch the hammer and the camera (New phone btw nokia e52 recently made foss software, hoping for a half decent UI soon)
And the test drive showed: bugger all difference! well maybe I should have gone for a pre test spin to get a feel for what the old springs were like, which from memory were runner 125 springs.
okay heres the theory of why stiffer clutch spring don’t work:
the springs are meant to hold the clutch shoes in until a high speed is reached, but these bigger diameter springs actually (check the third pic up) rub off the side of the shoe and push the next clutch shoe out a little which in turn lightens the work of the next spring over, slightly dodgey theory I know, but just look as the leverage those shoes have over the springs, it’d break solid metal at a high rpm, stiffer springs will actually wear the shoes spring mount eye holes, there applying useless pressure, bit like american engneering cheap heavy and all the forces in the wrong place. A bandage masking the real problem, the shoes are too heavy!
So, my plan is to fit the standard springs again, then buy a analogue kitchen weighting scales, and take off weight from the shoes, no need for heavy springs, less wear, less forces going into the pegs holding the clutch shoes. Cons I’ll either have to do heavy maths to find the right weight to take off or I’ll have to take the clutch off many many many times and take a little off each time. If it all goes tits up a new racing clutch is quite cheap actually.
Spin tomorrow, I’ll see how she goes.
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
handguards on a sports bike.
Delivery’s came, so first thing was puting the new belt on the runner, just so I could get it out of the garage. Also came the parts for the english axle, right after I decided to not bother with it.
Ran the oily rag around it coz it’s sold, pity I insured it only got a few months out of it. Gotta plough on with the ypvs/xt hybrid need a two-stroke toy!
Sarges vn1500a (or vulcan 88) in all it’s glory.
Yep it looks worse up close. Found the approximate setting for the carbs (one post out there on the net!) no more then 138 main jet and the needle high on the 4th clip
Wanted to get these on for the winter.
There a bit small for wind protection and no use as crash protection
Also the taper insert thing was too small at 13mm, need one to fit an 18mm id, handle bars are confusing 7/8″ is 22mm so when they say to fit a 22mm bar do they mean 22mm od or id? a 22mm id would be massive.
Need a solid conection at the bar to hold the wind shield, rubber won’t do at 120mph.
Birdies haven a bath on the garage.
Also got the rear leaves of the jago half painted.
The amazing disappearing belt!
I can’t find any belt at all, none nadda ziltch. and the one i bought on ebay is second hand and only 20.6mm wide when it should be 22mm
Painted bottom of chassis, next stage is to put springs back onto it and do a dry build of the major parts (body engine) so I can see what bits need chopping and welding for example the engine will need different mounts and i need to mark out the bottom of the A post for the full cage.
stuff done today.
Got that bultaco that was in the garage for a while started, do these people not know that is there is too much oil in the premix the fuel leans out and that’s nearly as bad as not have enough oil? he only wants €600 for it, was tempted till I realised it’s righthand gearchange.
New pads for the runnner 180, gotta sell it off now.
New oil and filter for the poor suffering cbr6, really needs a rear tyre now.39500miles on the clock now, which makes its about 75000miles?
50mm spring on the left and a 60mm spring on the right. whew that’s cleared up a lot of my worries about this back end being a mk1,I now know for certain its a mk2, sweet.
turned it around by lifted it up with one hand and spinning it around like a top. over my head. whilst keeping the crocodiles back with a whip and a chair. with my third arm.
you can see it clearer now that the shite on the floor is gone.
Another new bit needed, think this was part of the reason why the spring broke.
Gilera runner 180, Gearbox Cover
Knocked this up 30mins, only a piece of bent aluminium plate, took me 20mins just to find the right bolts, drilled the first hole then with the screw in it to center the compass I scratched out an arc where the second hole should be (set the compass to the width by installing both bolts), same again for the third hole but with two arcs to get it really accurate.
Needs to be a bit more cut down.
