well that was a nice race
well the 2012 race regs are out tomorrow at 8am, seems the bikes next year have to be 100% standard, no fun 🙁 AND i can’t afford to, to find all those plastics and little fiddly bits to make a standard bike for racing? poo
Went back to the 50 head, pretty basic, made 3rd place tho, first place guys did a legger asap very suspicious.
The wilsons 90, nearly won.
€40 inner rotor kit, works well.
got more of the jeep done, tca’s had to come out to fit the leg, grr.
off to the race’s
provisions consists of home made cider
sarge swapped the €3500 gold wing sidecar for this pile.
can you see whats wrong with this rectifier?
May still be hope for an endurance race at watergrasshill, hope theres a silhouette class.
Also starting work experience next week, want the money but don’t want the work lol
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Some more
Can’t see it very well but there is a bit shaved off these gears, right where the rotational forces are greatest. Mate did it for free 🙂
and a bit more this morning got us a spark and a working exhaust.
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Bit more done the other day
holes in everything and a seized center stand.
chop out the stand weld in the left over bit of the axle, hope the brake lever doesn’t break.
More holes, the rear torque arm has a guide/bung welded to it to allow a cable to work the rear brake, so we have a rear brake lever and a rear brake pedal, handy if you’ve no right leg.
Swing arm ready for painting.
Nsr50, going to receive an 80 engine, other then the engine it’s a totally different animal.
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Some fifty tuning
Most importantly the paint scheme has been selected, a joey dunlop traditional yellow with black pin strips. worth 5bhp at least.
50cc bore and stroke with c90 head installed, fuck all compression ratio and no squish band. but he won’t fix it since he plans to run the 70 class next year and doesn’t have a spare head.
selection of heads, bottom left is the fifty head, it’s got 19in/13ex valves minuscule, all the other heads have 25in/22ex, the very early 90 head (top left) has a flat face with no squish band and would be perfect except the its the older cam in head design and the race for the cam is magnificently worn out.
Difference in inlet porting.
older style piston on the right would be brilliant if we could get a cam chain length to match the appropriately heightened barrel (piston is from the pushrod 50)
the shocks from my rxs have found a temporary new home.
Racing tyres,
pro: sticky, peaky profile might give us less drag on the straights, out psych the competition.
con: quite heavy, probably the wrong size, will tear the chassis to shreds in a hard corner
Last years trophy.
Choke cable
step 1: remove entire bike…
there it is just under the right hand coil, totally seized. when this new cable stops moving I’ll rig up a cable that is just pulled out the side.
didn’t have the tools to properly clean the carbs so i left that till some other time, still wondering what to do with the airbox, I have a spare lid so i can experiment with one and still be able to return to stock.
Perhaps if i remove the bell mouth of the snorkel, the sharp edge might add a bit of induction noise. Must have a look at some mid 90’s kawasaki airbox’s there known for a proper induction roar.
cbr mods
Looks like the runner is leaking fuel, so i decided to swap back to the cbr. Tried to get the fuel out of the runners tank, que gob full of petrol and then i only got 2 litre out as well, it’s a weird tank shape can’t get the pipe in far enough. Been thinking of ways to give the cbr more character, decided i needed a louder pipe and i should sort the jetting. I’ve always avoided loud pipes as it attracts guards but these days I’m not so fast any more. Not sure what pipe i’ll put on,we have a dented cbr straight thu pipe(chrome) i’d love to make the haybusa’s left hand carbon pipe fit but that’s a suzuki bolt on type, not slip on. So in the mean time i couldn’t remember weather i had de-baffled the stock pipe before, hmm, do it any way!
Success! pretty nice sound out of it, unfortunately i can’t hear it anymore when there is any wind speed, perhaps some airbox mods to bring in some induction roar? have to pop the tank off anyway to clean the pilot jets anyway, could do two birds with one stone and rejet to suit a modded airbox too.
i made a funny!
I’ve a habit of shouting “tits!” every time sex is used to sell me something on the tv
lotto came on, i shouted “tits!”, Sarah fed up goes:
“Shes not selling anything,Tim.”,”Don’t care want it anyway!”
Feck all done to the Jago again
Well i got 8.2l/100km outa the runner, thats probably as good as it gets for now,fun as it is probably will have to go back to the cbr.
Got something done to the jago. The paint wasn’t so thick that the crossmember wouldn’t fit. however the paint didn’t like the rain or the ice .
Also someone nicked one of the bolts i got to put the crossmember in. it was probably me and i’ve forgotten. Got tca’s in with much lube and two big hammers. Fitted the arb then ran out of light for photos.
arb clamps need plenty of  paint, decided to call it a night then, next day i’ll find a few more parts the need painting and do a batch.
thinking of getting a gsxr750l and turning it into a gsxr750rk(l) rep
This is a great inspiration, also those three pics are now my desktop backround forever!
http://iconmotosports.blogspot.com/2010/12/dance-commander.html
Some Jeep progress
Only thing really stopping me from starting the rebuild of the jago was the weld from old engine mounts that were blocking the crossmember from slipping on. I was just too lazy to get all the extension cord out and grind them off.
But yesterday i did it. It was a bit tight even with the extra welds ground off so some hammering widening the ‘ears’ out a bit.
then i painted the left over bit’s from last time, hope the paint isn’t so thick it won’t fit back on.
Christmas break work.
This scene last year was a mini glacier.
Cleaned up the 32mm carbs, fitted needles which richend the top end and left in the 210 jets.
Bastard throttle cable is near impossible, but i got it
Found a better fuel filter and slotted that in too.
Knew this things are restricting the engine and since i found out where our stash of jets were hidden, they got the chop.
Now all i need is some free time, fuel and dry roads to take it for a test spin. And to figure out where the throttle cable is meant to be routed.
The runner needs some love, so i found it a mirror

And since i got 11.42litres/100km(25mpg!! i may have stolen some fuel at some point i forget) decided to change the clutch springs, the green polini ones are great for a quick get away but i have to use plenty of throttle to keep the bike doing 50k, hence the suspicion that their causeing the crap fuel economy. Also they fit like shit which is i hope the reason for the weird shoe wear pattern.
I was going fit the old ones but I’ve lost the feckers, so i fitted the malossi race ones, which were a much more reasonable poundage and better shaped. Even managed to get em in single handed this time.
Test ride revealed a tiny amount of bog off the line and only once at that, if it still drinks the fuel it must be the rollers, which will make me sad since the buzz from the acceleration is awesome.
Back to FAS tomorrow, but at least the summers on it’s way.
