cbr6 rebuild pt1
Very red ain’t it? brother spayed a bit of lacquer on it, looks great on the swingarm (which dried properly in the car) but not so great on the frame (which stayed out side)
chuck a few bolts in, missing a few spacers.
Began stripping the old cbr, wire loom has to come out under the frame spar.
i can see why people like short bike with high tails, but it only looks good when your standing very close and it looks worse when some one looks as you drive along.
why does my phone keep losing the ends of photos? this is the wireing loom off.
Didn’t get much done today, was half planning to get both cbr’s running keep the old one as a track bike and the new one as a daily driver, but it looks like I’m missing to many bits, which is a bugger to be honest, anyway will go like hell tomorrow, throw the bike on the ground and just git er done.
whole lotta red frame
went dull over the weekend in the shed, to much moisture in the air i reckon, heated it in the sun and gave it a second coat.
then put it in my homebuilt oven, get lots of warm sun in there 🙂
And today, check that redness, triflow gate paint ftw!
Started on the main frame too, it’s in the car now to will take it out on friday/thurs give it the second coat and shove it back in the car to set, might thin a layer of paint to make sure the see able bits are the best. or not.
Bombardier 125 in an Aprilia rs125 frame
My version of nabs “island mist” photos
I call it “steaming turd”
Bombardier rotax 125 rescued from a go kart and shoved into a rs125 frame? sweet!
Brother is building this thing so who knows what it going to look like when done, asked steve for a lend of a reverse cylinder tzr250 pipe to see if it might do.
On with the cbr rebuild
Spent 20 buying some etch primer for the frame and engine. what the hell was i thinking? am i really gonna notice that the paint isn’t very good while im riding? probably only crash it with such nice paint anyway.
Also I am not spending days cleaning the whole thing up. No. I’d have it built in the same amount of time.
did use a little nitromors to clear the old nitromors off the frame.
tada! rusty gate red, god I hope it’s doesn’t turn out like a clown car.
tt-01e rc and cbr6 fix up
So the tt-01e kit turned up in the post finally, just after i kinda gave up on meccano thing, still might see the light of day some time in the summer ya never know.
Didn’t take any pics while putting it togther, too busy following instructions for once.
Done!, rock hard tyres and blackened rims with a permenant marker
One of the white one’s was bent and all the other rims had glued on rally block tyres, so my single chrome wheel went on.
Want to put on the scooby body but i figured that I’d be crashing and bashing anyway so I started with a body i don’t care for, think I’ll channel the body down 2cm’s and raise the front arch to clear the wheel. the rear will be over the wheel much like an extreme touring car.
Definition of a well used tyre. Got my damn moneys worth I tells ya.
170 width conti tyre went in fine, it might rub the right hand side of the hugger a bit will find out if it ever rolls again.
Dinner time!
I must admit the for a while there during the snow I was thinking of spending the insurance money on a van. But I’m better now, gsxr1100 and while I’m on that the cbr should get a turbo.
Post crash analysis
Apart from the cat scaring the shit outta me on a dark night, causing me to jerk my back into spasm and stopping my breathing again, I’ve been fine!
Christmas has come and gone and we’re now getting back to normal, haven’t done much too much ice and cold out there, went up to the garage to-day, 2″ thick sheet ice all up the road, The runner is light so at a crawl speed i made it fine.
Got my claim form sent off, the other guy has admitted liability so all that stands in my way of money is the efficiency of allianze. Almost positive that i want a gsxr1100w (watercooled 93-98). the clipons are above the top yoke so easily turned into a mile muncher, if i need the seat a little lower a gsxr750 tail piece and seat ought to fit (much nicer look too) 155bhp is probably way over the top, but hey throttle works both ways and I’ll still probably have the cbr6. Which is getting a fresh start with a bright red frame and a gunmetal grey engine and body work.
Managed to get the rear shocks on the jago, too damn frozen to do any more.
The whole point of going up to the garage today was to check if i had any delivery, and i did, yay! Still waiting for the ebay seller to get back to me about that servo saver, mailed him again today. Would have the meccano RC going now but for the saver saver.
37!
No broken bits this time not even any skin, extremely bruised back though, bit tough to breath, sitting on couch with a board behind my back to ease the pain.
ejit made an illegal u-turn across my lane, alwell least i took a big chunk of it.
bit cold the other day! clocks need setting straight they were always a bit bent looks a lot worse now with the screen to align them with.
125cc racer, note foldable pegs, large 90 tank, sticky rear tyre, can’t race this because its breaks the rules, but we might as well finish it now. Will bring it to watergrasshill to test it along side with my rxs100 probably next month since the race is feburary
It looks like a katana!
well i hope it does, some ejit will say it looks like a bmw
noticed my tak welds were good enough to support me hanging off the subframe, so i welded it a bit more and left it at that.
Sprayed it black
That too, cleanest it’s even been.
quick and dirty
was thinking reverse paint scheme, but that’s not gonna work, magnolia with black stripe all the way
bonus! clocks fit, might use em.
best looking angle, and the most important.
cbr6 get a new nose
Garage was a bit blocked up so i did some work outside.
Not too bad, can’t decide weather to shorten the nose or lower it, want it to have a hint of 80’s suzuki katana, might chop off the nose of old front mudguard.
tak welded together
Bit of adjustment todo, gonna be painted magnolia again, with a black stripe down the middle (or maybe another colour…..)
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.
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.
