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Eventually by the way of @GuyWithAviators freight services the Chaly ended up back at my garage where it was put back into the corner of the shed. Moped NZ Auckland ride v2 was coming up and I thought we'd try this again. Pulled the tank out, cleaned out and resealed the petcock, revised the fuel lines , fitted a different airfilter, changed a few settings in the carb and checked it still ran. Used the ride from my house to the meet point as a test and it ran fine. Seems to be running fine, And pulling some fuel out through mid throttle ranges made it alot more happy. From here I want to internal route the throttle cable and fit my new frame/carb cover. also FOAMERS FTW

First thing was checking the motor worked. Had a Low Key ride after Caffiene & Classics as a first outing. It went mostly okay apart from the part exhaust I had destroying my eardrums. - Louds cool, but the tone was horrible. and the carb needing fettling to run better. Chalys and VM22 carbs are a pain to adjust idle speed/mix. I ended up drilling a access hole through the frame to get to the Idle speed, and Idle Mixture is remove carb, turn half a turn and hope it makes a difference. Double Chalys! what does it mean! Next was remedying the exhaust issue, I sourced a bespoke exhaust and got it modified my SFC Fabrication to fit the chaly. Namely tucking the pipe in under the motor and up higher to clear the rear brake lever and footpegs. I ended up using folding footpegs to allow them to move up when you get a lean on and drag pegs. Also visable in the picture behind the exhaust are super short adjustable preload rear shocks to sit the rear tyre as close to the frame as possible and still allow some comfort. This pipe has a deep sound which makes it sound like a much larger bike than what it is, it also has 3 noise level stages with the aid of a removable and adjustable baffle, from subtle to there’s a Harley behind me. oh yeah, And some super sweeet narrow pullback bars for max Style points Took Chaly to Christchurch, Rode in from little river to nats, then back in the freezing cold from nats to @Chris.QCRs place to meet Quake City Rumblers and go for a ride. Which was definitely as awsome as I was expecting it to be. Such a good bunch of dudes, Cool bikes, great riders, super accomodating, Great roads and area to ride. No wait.... im ment to tell you how QCR are a bunch of Intimidating tough scary dudes right? (Thanks Rez for the coffee to defrost me after the ride over the hill!), apart from the Chalys fuel tank petcock deciding to come loose not long after leaving and dump all of the gas out all over the road. Fixed that, Made it most of the way on the ride trouble free but at the end it developed a miss and ran rough. Ended up in the back of a ute back to Hogans where I tried to do burnouts but It wouldnt play ball. With that I left it there, Returned to Nats and then flew back to Auckland.

What was next... A Chaly popped up for a good price, So of course I snapped that up. This was what I collected. Previous owner had used it as a parts bike for their Chaly. Supposedly the motor was junk, So i quickly sourced a replacement motor to slap it which was ment to be a quick swap. and we all know how that goes. Fitting the motor was easy enough, Fiddly stuff like the kit carb being to wide to fit into the frame leading to having to change to a VM22 carb, Having to souce a straight manifold as the carb spinner setup didnt quite put the carb straight enough to clear comfortably, having to source a few missing rear brake components from overseas slowed everything up abit too. Got the motor in, wired it up from scratch, sorted a few other things. Didnt really have much planned in the way of the build other than getting it going and rideable. Then Foamers got invited to ride with QCR, and due to car space requirements the Chaly was the bike I had to take.

ST also goes good off road. And the FR50 is still going well. This photos from a weekend away with some small bike GCs in the Coromandel. Had a issue on its last outing on a ASSES ride where the carb fell off and Id just put it in the shed and not fixed it. But @Threeonthetree came over and forced me to fix it. Thanks mate I just liked the shed tbh.

Only other real issue I had was I got too cocky and ended up going down a 'small bank'. Luckily the ST got stuck in a tree an I was able to clamber back up and the other boys pulled the bike back up. Apart from that. Weow. What an adventure!

then I decided the ST was going on EastCapeEscapade, So i spent a few bucks and gave it a birthday. New chain, Sprockets, ignition components, few gaskets to replace after opening engine up to clean the filter screen, fluids, brake component etc thanks to my local motorcycle shop, Botany Honda. Just all the basics youd do to a 44 year old bike before taking it on a 600km adventure Welded up a carrier rack, attached a crate, packed the basics met up with the others and probably had the most fun Ive had on a bike. Was my largest adventure to date on a bike, And the ST lapped it up. Cruised fine at about 40mph and could wring 50mph out full tuck on the flats according to the speedo. Only issue I had was it fouled a couple of spark plugs and wouldnt restart after being shut off when warm.

and then the money from the lets went into this. I decided I wanted a Dax, and ended up being put onto a lead on a very similar bike down in Christchurch. Negotiated a deal and got it shipped up to my work in Auckland. 1973 Honda Trail Sport. All original, Included all original documentation, Including purchase receipt from 74, and rego papers etc. Took it on Moped NZ Raglan ride. Was Awsome for the short time I rode it . @Geophy spent most of the ride on it while I piloted my Sparkly FA50, Which was a hoot as it had to be ridden at wide open EVERYWHERE.

Okay, where are we at now. tried to get the SJ going, Lost interest. Pillaged all the good bits -tyres etc for the Lets and sold the SJ for a small profit. Jammed all the go fast bits into the Lets, Used it to go to and from work for a couple of weeks. Could beat all the cars away from the traffic lights, and wind the speedo off the clock while overtaking cars. GPSed top speed at around 78kmh. Seating position wasnt all that comfortable and the bike was really too tidy to use as a engine donor. So it got cleaned up and sold on for maximum profit.

Go all out, Get a 190 mate itll fit! puhuhuhuhu

Tbh was in the process of tagging you, thought you might have been able to assist this gentleman with some knowledge or did you get rid of your gadabouts? Here’s a link to @Bellicose thread for you to geeze at

Oooohhh. sweet classic scooter!

It will be perfect!

Or you can take a shit bike and your only problem is a fouled up spark plug stopping your bike from not starting. or a really nice CT, that then fucks a fuel line. or a TF125 farm bike and get a puncture on gravel when a SJ on street tyres doesn’t. wat? sssssh @Seedy Al just come

Still got a bit to do but fizzing. hope this POS doesn’t behave like it did in ChCh again

Good night, good yarns. Cheers for coming. My jaguar pines for the evening were satisfied

BURGERS!

Please don’t investigate it fully/start investigations. thanks

@MopedNZ don’t open this can of worms you spoon

That’s fine, mopeds can’t legally exceed 50kmh also if you wanna do some practice Giz a yell, can always do some shorter open road type rides out to pukekohe/waiuku/ kariotahe beach for practice @GuyWithAviators

this week

Small wheels are fine. less distance to fall. its the adventure. Not the bike the fun is taking bikes that shouldn’t be doing this sort of stuff on this sort of stuff. if we were being lame and sensible we’d all buy Honda xr650s /bmw Dakar’s and do the loop in a day.

Don’t think about it too much. do you own any of the following? a small cc bike? A basic tool kit? a puncture repair kit? A helmet? warm clothes/riding gear? Are you able to: figure out how to attach to or carry stuff on your bike? ride a small cc bike in a group confidently? Has your bike got a 150km range between refills? yes - cool! no- carry some gas did you answer yes to all of the above? sweet. see you at East Cape.

Pls tell me this is the RV

Man I need to update this thread, cause me oh my have I aqquired some shit. Yes boy

Yeah 2.5l tank got a bit old