TerraRoot

Luck.

bad luck, getting a puncture at speed.

good luck, finding a half spent can of tyre repair at the closest petrol station.

bad luck, hole in the tyre is too big.

good luck, not having to go to work tonight 😀

tomorrows gonna be hard, what the frag am i going to fix? sort the busa? the runner? 10 year old spare cbr6 tyre? star trek like transport system for pizza’s? wouldn’t be such a pain if there was a tyre repair place open…..

the snow in london

I think this one should be titled “desperate search for a shitter”

Excel bike pics

thats all folks

london excel show

last thursday i made up a really heavy battery box, not had the time to finsh becasue i’ve had to goto london

To have some pizza.

steve and ronan were very happy about the pizza, bit to happy if you ask me…

So we went and got some pics of bikes to cheer me up 🙂

post them later when i have a better net connection.

STOP! the guards say..

Lights and indicators, cheapo four function trailer lamps will do the job for a few miles until vibration kills em’. Still have to make a new loom for it, all of it. 🙁

looks all nice and legit now……..

welding rubbish together

This is what the pizza box holder looked like prepaint but post final welding. have got any pics of it painted. it was fun making it but it’s no work of art.

So today i fixed up the bajaj’s foot gear change, needed another lever to make it a heel toe setup and spare metal to lengthen the cable arms, so the rg125f’s homemade rear set got the chop.

Ain’t it lovely? the ratio i used was 21/8 or as close-as-damn-it 2.5/1, handy to know for anyone attempting a vespa foot gearchange.

off to the london excel show this weekend, hope i score a nice helmet. Gonna bring a nice book so i can avoid drinking.

playing with cbr’s

The other day we started up the “left in the rain for 10 years” cbr6, exhaust was full of muck.

Took some cleaning up, even got my helmet.

So yesterday, decided to re-stealth my own cbr6, why? i’m back delivering pizza, need monies. Anyway stainless F3 can wont fit so i chopped up the mount tab and made it fit.

Next up was a better box, took it apart for measurements. dirty huh?

Ex-school tables to the rescue again. you can see what i did to the F3 pipe here too.

Lobster backed and fish mouthed the side support bar. Serious engineering terms i kid you not.

All done now, just waiting for the paint to dry, the least fun part of any project. Will have the road test on friday night, it’ll be perfect or the pizzas will end up all over the road. right after the turn up for Clarkes hill. at about 8:35.

A seat.

Don’ t think this is a very exciting update, chopped up the old benches in the shed and welding them to the tuk tuk

Fire? nope just an rs250 being started up.

Braced, still needs a bridge in front to lock the seat down. it’s only held in place by two bolts at the back at the moment.

Penetration shot…

Runs now, but i just parked it up, soggy ikky rain.

I has brakes!!!

Well it turned out that the bajaj shoe adjustment is done by the handbrake cable, no flipping auto adjustment! still spongy but it stops well, also it seems the holes in the floor have another use; light for when your working underneath 🙂

won’t run now, figging carb.

Next i might have to go back to delivering pizza for extra money, so the cbr got a look over. Found a foot hanger that has a raised fulcrum point for better gear changes. It was in the scrap pile, looked brand new.

after some research it turned out it was an f3 hanger, and nope i didn’t have a f3 gear change lever. So i tried to make a new pivot brush, that didn’t turn out so clever, the lose brush i found was 0.17mm too big and after half an hour of filing i gave up.

So the lever i needed had to be 10mm spaced out, much easier to make then the blasted pivot.

needed a longer adjustment bar, rg125f to the rescue, 2secs in the vice to straighten it out.

On it goes, gear change has improved! thank fook, i would like a longer adjustment bar but thats a bugger to make, may just buy an f3 lever some time in the future, maybe if i make some money lol.

back to the shed

all hail not sitting on your arse eating leftover christmas chocolate.

found a 450 supermoto at the garage for repairs, engine is leaking life blood from everywhere, wouldn’t find that on a two-stroke. much.

on the other hand it wouldn’t have taken a proper mechanic to fix it either.

Got stuck into the bajaj, tore off the rear slaves to go see if desmond’s could re hone them, once they saw em, figured it would be easier to get new ones since they had similar ones off a peugeot, cept these were 19mm bore rather then 25mm, think they’ll match the 14mm master cylinder much better and they are dead cheap too. Another bonus there metric and desmonds would swap the imperial nipples for free. job done

‘Cept i ran out of light. curse you sun!