Sarges vn1500a
Not supposed to be like that.. also the wireing for the fan is worn through and the main harness, a water hose has nealy been holed and the fuel filter was on the wrong way around. haven’t even started yet.
All the bits scooped out, the airbox is made of Seven pieces! Oil leak seem to be comeing from the lower rocker cover, engine out job, not doing it, Sarge has had 3 week to come up with the money to pay for the work, does he have any? fuck no. Will i do lots of hard work for no money? fuck no.
Carbs out, jets ordered, it did have 112 front jet and a 115 back so I’m going to try a 125 front and a 127 rear, mostly coz that all I could find, not because there right.
Sarge’s crack and big hole.
Didn’t do a very tidy job when welding up this pipe, I’m spoilt by the tig welder, still, got it done and neither pipe now rubs on the frame. Went for a test drive then, anything over half throttle and it stutters and misses, front brake didn’t work, head bearings were loose, rear tyre was flat and then to top it all off the throttle jammed one me. On the plus side the cooling system is probably okay, it’s obvious that the pipes have massively leaned out the carburation and that what’s causing it to run so hot.
So I’ll do sorting a jet kit and while the carbs are out I can get around the front head and find that oil leak. doesn’t sound so bad listed like that, wonder what other horrors await under that tank? (note to self, gottta get full pic of sarges vulcan)
Glad to be back in the garage, need to do more tomorrow. Waiting for the runners next new belt.
More work done, jago cleared up.
Niki’s intruder, not a marauder, so it came as no surprise that none of the bits I ordered fitted.
Little sprocket refused to come off, so I angle grinded that biatch to hell.
830317, the guys at the joc might be of some help deciphering that.
Bull bars off, staying off too, gonna use what’s left of the bars to make the rest of the floor, gotta clear the work schedule before I can get back to work on it.
Looks like now it is all mk2, it has a mk2 handbrake setup, it obvious now that some ejit just put a 50mm leaf spring in there for kicks
Stuff
Recommissioned this for a friend of my dads, bloody Teflon cables were all shagged.
Made a start on the starlets rear brakes, still seized, little tear in the rubber dust seal held water in there and its a rusty mess, maybe I should forget about it concentrate on the engine and let the new owner sort that out?
Nrg fork bending.
Got it a bit straighter, but then the stem got a little bent, it’s very tough, too tough, so I’ll have to find new forks some where.
Then I got up on the roof and nicked it..
.. to turn it into my new garage floor, the jeep will be here Friday! keep thinking about engines for it, I forget I’ve already decided to put a bmw 316 (probably an m40) in it and find my self looking at 4age to t9 gearbox bellhousing’s. Not that I would actually use a 4age, probably a late 4afe, much cheaper and nearly as fast, downdraft inlet just like a proper engine.
Buy that jago!
15×10 inch wheels, 1600 pinto might be from a rs1600 mexico, but i really doubt it, gota check if it has an alloy sump when i go to pick it up next week. They also had a 1600 xflow for sale too with 4-1 exhasut and apparently rally tuned only €150 so even if’s it got less power then the pinto (yeah rite) it’ll go faster because it weighs 100 kilo less!
Much work ahead which would normally excite me, but i still have to wade through the paperwork, gotta sort tax book, join a vintage club and sort insurance.
With those wheels and a 3.77 axle it’ll do 144mph. or 72 in second.
Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe and this thing = WIN
Recycling a NRG 50
The neighbours crashed nrg50, was talking to nadia the other day, said she wanted a little bike to get around on and didn’t care what it looked like.
Short?
Only a bit bent!
Sean’s back from his hols in Canada.
Sarges Yamaha neo’s head light and front plastic bit screwed on. look at the back front leg.
Just a bit bent!
Made a bottom bracket to hold on the headlight, done.
Started her up first of all and it sounded quiet and sweet, idled like a dream even drove it a bit, couldn’t turn right and had no front brake but it worked great with some air in the tyres. To be honest it’s a lot of work for a fairly crap bike, might just break it up, use the tyres and front wheel on my runner and try and ebay the engine, there is probably better bikes out there for nadia, maybe i could just teach sarah how to ride on this thing?
My 100th post is a bit boreing, ya?
killarney biki fest 09, honda 50 step-tru rally.
Killarney bike fest, saturday
Both of them had there original airbox’s, drool!
Next years honda 50 ride?
Seening all these trike’s gave me idea’s, i think my spare cbr6 is going to get it, passanger and driver will be set way behind the rear axle to get the COG in the center, we will sit side by side like a car, but a little higher up so it will be styled a bit like and off roader, i have many idea’s must ask the insurance companys how far i can go before it needs an engineers report.
This thing would be quite excellent with a runner 180 engine. but i am confused i don’t see how that diff works (if it is a diff) and if it doesn’t then why the twin disc’s?
Nice mix of retro and tech, loving the plunger and rear disc brake.
The idea of putting the tank low and exposing the engine is great it would be perfect for engine’s that need to be longer to fill the rear frame, like some singles, but not like harley’s, there long enough.
Far too much work gone into this thing.
Ducati 350 condor, equiped with tail gater deterent!
The honda 50 challenge around the ring of kerry was a bit dull, nobody had an interesting bike!
im in this pic 🙂
300 riders, police had to feckin escort it, really bad did not need them there at all,a highly tuned 140cc might break 100kmh (on THOSE roads(you know what i mean)) sun was spliting the stone’s and there we were bunched up behind some guards being told to stop and wait when we did not want to, melting alive while we waited, herded like sheep, who the hell asked them there anyway? going to find a 140cc engine and just pass them next time, we can bearly break the speed limit and are not breaking the law by haveing a ride. and it’s better to just string out rather then bunch up.
(Btw the honda pics are the girlfriends)
Malossi air filter, sava mc7 tyres, tank leak.
Malossi air filter pod, should do the business. Fix the tank leak again, did not use enough hardener. used araldite.
Fixed niki’s bike, if I find Paul’s brother(he did the wiring) I’ll strangle him.
Started with the gold paint on the wheels, below is a a piece of plastic with the fiat green I want to put on the body work. Can’t see it very well.
After i sprayed on the gold i read the can, 7 DAYS to dry? and it needs lacquer? fuck that. Never again am i painting any of my bike’s or car’s, way to much hassle not enough driving.
Rxs100 taillight sorted, more paint drama. tyres are here!
Nice aprillia rs125, needed little modification to fit.
Painted underside of tank and glued up the new holes i found.
To much rain all together.
Halfords filler primer.
Silver paint that was lying around reacted and a decided against painting it silver, it would only work if he frame was red and that i can’t be arsed doing for a while. so it’s going to be British Racing Green with gold wheels. definitely this time.
Yellow matches the shocks eh?
Tyres and air filter turned up! dopes from easyparts.nl sent me the wrong type of rear tire but at least they charged me for the correctly for the cheaper tubeless, instead of the more expensive tubed tyre. i can run it wit a tube it’s not really a problem
What is a problem right now is that i have loads of work to do niki’s vl125 isn’t charging again and loads of the fourstar TGB’s need bits sorted for em. And paperwork needs doing license is out of date soon gotta sort that!
EDIT: got a haircut so i can’t tie my hair up anymore, i forgot i had such 80’s hair!
