GuyWithAviators

I really like the front end of these. / the styling altogether. Following this project with interest.

If the stars align I’d be down on this.

@Shakotom ?

Yeah these guys are bishes. East coast loves 10 / 12 inches

You’re not wrong.

Wait you guys ride bikes at this event?

Cb360 but chop it

Sucking back roadside PGs

Oh yeah that’d be fun. Get the whole ppsc gang along

Wat happened to the mudbug

Do you get to keep your bbc?

Look right? Part number F-01A order from BnT or SCA etc. or truflow/gmb part number TF730 from repco etc

Eastcape keys in the bowl?

Vmoto Milan would be a good donor here. The scooter body rusts/disintegrates before the motor does. Chuck a 70cc kit and some cvt upgrades on it and away ya go.

Shit yeah. Been chipping away at my Cape special this week too #4 strokes are for wankers

@felixx - found your disco

Not sure on the specific time, depends on the ethanol content. This is a good additive if you are storing fuel: https://www.supercheapauto.co.nz/p/crc-fuel-stabiliser-350ml/395871.html You can smell when fuel gets old, kind of varnish-y. I have a few motorbikes with old fuel in the tanks, I tend to put this in my modern car and it doesn’t care. But for small motorcycles they’re a little more fussy, still runs though.

Ok, last post for now. Another adventure coming up. This time, Great Barrier Scoots with the Auckland lads. Highlight vid I made below. I broke some spokes on the rear somehow so grabbed a second hand pitbike rim with dirt tyre, perfect. Chucked the YG shocks back in. And some Z50 'stiff' springs in the front, which are low but have travel now. Lush. Also pitbike exhaust after my twin pipes broke. Chain was loose and came off at WOT, smashed up the side cover, lucky using a temporary one to sit 17t front sprocket. Rad weekend. Knobbly tyre scary on the road. Then did dirt skids in @Thphantum's paddock. https://imgur.com/j3GsLEv And then it fell apart. And turned blue. Actually this is a different frame, the blue is nice though. I'm borrowing the 125 Lifan for another project. I also got a new rack for it. Will put another Lifan in it and just continue to ride it! Is a great bike. The grey one is currently sitting like this. Waiting a date with a grinder to make my spare PW80 2 stroke engine and KX65 expansion chamber fit. Watch this space...

Back to our regularly scheduled programming now. Cleaned it up and put the low suspension back in. Took it drag racing at 2019 OS drag day. @MichaelJFox with the lush pics. It wasn't that quick, I also installed a smaller rear sprocket after Te Undertaking ride for better open road speed. So it had a slow take off. I also only got 2 runs due to rain and the track marshal not liking it.. asked to see it's WOF etc a couple of times. Fun though! Here's @Ned on it. And this photo might seem familiar. 2018: After drag day I took it to @Geophy's house warming and did a skid, because of course. Might be a bit lean? Just kept riding it after that. Here it is on inappropriate roads during Moped NZ Mt Maunganui Ride. This also broke the mufflers off.

Alright hope these sharns aren't too punishing. Pt.3 section 2. Te Urawera Undertaking was coming up quick with my CT90 sold and Yamaha YG not running right all I had left was my Chaly. It'll be fine for a 600km half gravel ride with no suspension? Mhmm probably not. So I borrowed the rear shocks from my YG - about 310mm long. And some stock length springs from a mate's Chaly - with my cut tubes. Repro Honda Dax front guard, foot shift, rear rack and tail light combo. This photo was taken on a test ride. Was great! Spare gas def needed, only holds 2.8l. Shortly down the road though doing a vmax run.. Note the skid mark and fuel trail on the road. The ratchet strap tail got caught in the chain and sucked it in. This pulled the bike right down, breaking my tail light, squashing the fuel can and bending the rack/mount. Quite scary locking up at 80kph. Managed to stay upright though and slid into the ditch. I wasn't that close to home so after untagling everything carried on... Only to run out of fuel shortly after haha. I needed that jerry can. Lucky I left my ute keys at home and Callum came and rescued me. Anyway, bashed the rack and mount bracket straight, revised my tie down and got a new fuel can. The ride was a hoot. Until I lost spark in the middle of nowhere. Lucky @Ned picked me up in the support car. I also lost the rack somewhere along the way, kept the fuel though. I welded the cracks after it got bent the first time but it wasn't enough. Had a look at it that night but couldn't see anything obvious. It was dark and raining so cut my losses and left it in the trailer and jumped on J5's spare Postie CT110 for the second day. That took us to Gisborne where I put the Chaly up on the lift at @Raizer's place and took the fuel tank out to check the CDI etc. It was full of oil under there, looks like the breather lost its hose and was pumping straight into the CDI and Coil plugs. So I cleaned that out, shoved a rag in there and stole some garden hose to put over the breather pipe. This worked and I rode the last day on the Chaly. With @Shakotom ADV50 And the aftermath of the 2 days punishing riding. The long swingarm was great on gravel, the tyres not so much.

Also found a fix for the fuel starve issue / filter getting wet. Fitted a vacuum fuel pump from a Honda Dio. Gets a vac pusle from a barb I tapped into the inlet manifold and sucks fuel from the tank to the carb. This meant no room for a filter, so it can't get wet. Good thing Lifans are disposable motors. Next event was Moped NZ CCDM meet (Cub, Chaly, Dax, Monkey) in Auckland. So I slapped some Doozi made Chaly decals on - in gold. Lush matte finish and designed off a sticker set NZ didn't get. These really set the bike off against others, have a couple of gold fasteners on too. I also fitted up the carb top cover to clean the look up - and spanner welded onto the choke lever. I also made a suicide shifter with an ornament on top. If it looks familiar I'm not sure why.. Here it is parked up at the start of the CCDM ride. And some of the other stuff that went on that weekend. Lots of dudes. And this trophy I made from my stock front guard - went to Zain for his choppd Chaly with amazing fab work.

So treated it for it's skin disease with a wire brush on the grinder then chucked it in a sand blasting booth to get in the tight spots. Also blasted the front rim halves, hub and other misc bits. Primed it / threw some bog over the worse of the pitting. And then laid down the colour - just rattle can Dupli-colour 'Gun Metal'. Also fitted some Chaly badges and a custome bespoke air filter hole cover. Cleared it, wet sand and polish. Not bad considering how it started. Cleaned up / painted the other bits and added some gubbins from Aliexpress, speedo, oil cooler etc. Slapped it back together: Tidy! Still missing a seat though so got my guy to whip up another wood base special. Let him have free reign of the design - I dig it. Then that weekend was the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride in Auckland. Warmed up the tyre before hand: https://imgur.com/tdQDpZU It was the smallest bike there, was really well recived. Air filter got soaked though and sapped some power and it bogged down going up hills - not getting enough fuel to the carb with it being higher than the tank outlet now. Did some off-roading with @Shakotom after. A good shakedown run on it's first proper ride.

Keen viewers may have noticed the rear swingarm is monoshock mount and the Chaly frame is not. I found some 25x25 box section, cut the top off then got these U shaped brackets welded onto the swingarm. Mail ordered some solid struts for the rear from my not-so-local engineeer and slapped them in. I also found some cool handle bars in a junk pile and made up a headlight bracket to suit a swapmeat find Hella 181 driving light with brand new cover from BnT. Around this time I also decided I wasn't going to run the 140cc engine, it sounded rattly after I put it together and I didn't have a big enough carb for it. So I got another brand new Lifan 125 semi for simplicity and reliabilitys sake. Here I am showing the struts, headlight and gently running in the new motor. Keen eyes may have also noticed the rear disc brake. The bike was too low to use a foot brake and with no clutch lever to worry about with the semi auto I went with a hand rear brake and cable off a late model scooter. Works great! Locks up easily. So exhaust was up next. Another swapmeat find of these twin mufflers. Mayeb from a pocket bike? Made a new bracket for them, hung off the rear shock mount and mated them up to a pitbike header. Also ran a step drill down the ends of them to open them up a bit, has a nice tone to it. And this was essentially the finished product! But King Giraffe / Mouldy Bannana wasn't going to be too well recieved by the local constabulary... I've already had a couple of run ins with them over the state of my bikes. So this one would be different.

So, back in NZ now. A little time had passed since I'd been home. Was spending most of my time working on other Yamaha junk. Until I spotted a cheap 140cc Pitbike on Facebook market place in Gisborne. Was probably stolen but I got my man @Raizer on the job and he went to the hood and collected it for me. It made it's way to my garage and did some eyeballing and slapped the rear end into my Chaly frame... this could work. I initially wanted it to be more of an off road bike with lots of suspension travel but it was really a bit small for that and the long swing arm sitting level with the bigger 12 inch wheel got me thinking bad things. I was also keen to use the engine from the yx140cc Pitbike in this - 'bolted in' but it wouldn't change into second gear so I knew I'd need to open it up and see what was going on. Only issue with this engine was it uses a manual primary clutch and the lever sits on top of the motor and would foul the frame. So @Raizer to the rescue again - he'd done this to his 140cc Chandler too. Notched the frame, moved the engine mount in and tig'd up the seam. This worked well so I did a skid. And upon further inspection I noticed the actual inner casing was cracked around where a bearing goes. Too meke clutch dumps maybe. I ended up finding another inner casing and gear and putting it all back together. So with the rear end decided on I turned my attention to the front. I kept the front forks and 10 inch wheel but google translate yarned to my mate Nut in Thailand about how to lower the front of these. I figured out chop the springs and shorten the inner chrome tube. Easy enough but the tube ID steps out from 13mm to 17mm for the spring seat to go into. So I got my friendly not-so-local engineer to put these in the lathe and widen my holes. @Geophy also tidied up the guard mount I cut off and used the mill to machine the holes for the roll pins holding the spring keeper in right. I don't have a photo of the stock length spring but it was about twice this length. Put this all together and got a good idea of how it'd sit. Sourced some fat road tyres. Ft. @MopedNZ's first Chaly with his Thai parts from Yut @ CDM shop.