painted my mums windows, not very exciting is it?
lots of small thing done this week, fixed the garage door where the tuk tuk is kept, sorted sarges girl friends rebel 125 (bloody cruisers), put brake pads and speedo cable on the cbr, caned the busa to the point of scary wheelspin every where, rear tyres not lookin so good any more and I’ve ran out of petrol again..
Dirty busa
haven’t even use 2 tanks of petrol yet and it’s manky, also lubeing the chain yourself sucks, scottoiler ftw!
Put all the fairings on, right side fitted fine, but left side was a disaster, looks like the upper fairing cage is still a bit bent.
Must retire busa
cold tyres, need to overtake, loads of gas at 100km, pass car sideways, had a silly grin for a while after that but really… ffffuuuuu
Need to make a little money to get the cbr back on to daily driver duty, rear tyre, speedo cable and front brake pads about €204. So fixed some mopeds by swapping good parts from the one with the dead engine to the crashed one, changed the boxs around and by god there heavy, also massive space for a wooden flat bed there to0, redneck moped!
sunshine, snow and big ends.
niki’s vl125 had no spark this morning, so yet again there was a mad rush to get something running so he can go to work
Snow intervened, weird because it’s actually a nice day. i was going to put the busa fairings on but with all the running about for niki and the snow i just gave up.
Niki also killed another fourstar bike,low oil and a stupid oil tank design that lets the oil flow away from the outlet when going up hills means the brass from the cage of the big end melted and ended up fouling the plug. Thats two dead ones now, both from lack of oil.
Tuk tuk, more work
Finally got the metal and the welder in the same place, pissed rain tho.
Got one crappy patch done.
that took all day, rust is very hard to weld to.
Next day we tried to flip it fully over to do more welding.
Much closer inspection and i’ve decided to skip to plan 1.1 and make new frame rails from the headstock to a good section of the chassis, I don’t trust that I can make the neck strong enough with out basically replacing the whole front end of the chassis, much of it is triple plated sheet and i can’t be sure that the sheet in the middle is any good and hence structurally sound, after all I’m hardly gonna just cruise around I’ll be totally flat out just trying to keep up with traffic. Measured up the fx400r engine, looks like it will be sticking out the back by about the length of whatever diff I find, so probably at worst 10″ which we can live with.
swap one bike and start three more projects
gpz500: it won’t run very well after it’s eaten it’s own (23 year old) airfilter….
NEWS: Since i now own the fastest bike in the world, do i really need the ypvs to put into the xt350? dad has been wanting it for ages, so hes’ gonna put the tzr250 suspension bits on it and tidy it all up, the brother is gonna get the fathers rd375 with it’s long alloy tank and other trick bits so he can finish his own rd thing and i’m gonna put the tzr250 engine into the xt350(sorry choco should have been quicker), also i get this gsxf600, which i can’t decide right now but it looks like it might go into the jago, it’ll be a little two wide for the tuk tuk so thats almost certainly getting the fx400r engine and if the jago is not fast enough, bigger suzuki’s share the same engine mounts, easy upgrades.
Decisions decisions decisions….
future rat busa?
Finally got a spin, lovely weather, busa not as scary as i had hoped, incredibly smooth and well suspended with a great seat and it’s got a trip computer thingie telling me that i’m getting 7l/1ookm at the mo but i was pissing around zipping to the chinese and following sarge on a rebel 125, will get better at steady speeds. Sarge is on his gf’s 125 because his vn1500 is blown up, so i did the decent thing and turned up on my new fully functioning busa and rubbed it in 🙂
Gpz 500, sv650 shock
It went right in there no problems, both ends drilled out to 12mm (not by me) and the bottom end widened by 2mil. So half a litre of fuel in and off down the hill we went (niki on the 500, me on ma ‘busa), got to petrol station filled it right up and i took it out gave it full throttle in the hope that that would clear out the carb/engine. Nope and it was raining by now too so i got a bit wet waiting for sean in the van to pick me up, Weirdly i enjoyed getting wet, it’s great once your not having to work in it.’Busa is fantastic very smooth and a really comfy seat, got 160 out of it after about 5mins and in the rain 😀 i’m normally very reserved on a new bike….
Think i’ll find a spare dented busa tank and paint all the busted spare fairings in a tokyo police spec scheme, the bike equivalent of a certain Max’s ford falcon xb coupe…..
vn1500 trike
Sarges has all ways wanted one, and here it is!
It uses a ford english axle, i like how it’s mounted and it turns out that i know the guy who owns it, might just get him to make up the bits for sarge.
nikis ex/gpz 500 is comeing together, found tanks rubbers off the other kawasaki’s at sarges. The rear number plate light is off of something else so no number plate light. Just needs a rear shock and the side panels fixed and maybe bleed the front brakes.
Nobodys around today to help move the welder and the needed sheet steel to sort the bajaj, tomorrow hopefully
