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That brings us to a couple of months ago where i saw that the bike was starting to rust and corrode from sitting around so i got back into it.
first off was getting the seat finished
cut out and fitted
welded and filed up
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Here's the pics from making the seat
1/16 ally
blocking the sheet to shape
lots more hitting and shrinking around the edges
A few passes through the wheel and its starting to look like something
After final wheeling and trimming
The base was made out of slightly thicker material, no blocking required though just a few passes through the wheel
Mock up
This is how the bike looked sometime in 2014, after this pic was taken progress pretty much stopped while i was working on other things
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This is a project i have had on the go for quite a while now, it always seems to get put aside when other projects come up but i am determined to have it finished this year, Famous last words haha. I wanted something a bit different from the standard bantam and seeing as the project was a basket case i didn't feel bad about making something different out of it, so racer it was!
Anyway here is a pic as it stands today
I got given a basket case bantam project in 2013, i did a fair bit of work to the bike 2013-14 and most of the pictures following are from that period
The project....
Frame with reassembled forks and rear suspension
I got the engine cleaned up and back together with new seals, bearings, clutch pates, sprockets and gaskets
I had the engine running at this point but i have since fitted a big fin 125cc barrel and head which i had bored to fit a new piston. BSA only made the big fin 125 for 1 year before going to the 150cc motor so i was quite lucky to get it, pic below is the small fin barrel
Next job was making up some clip on bars
Tacked on
found some levers at a swapmeet as the original bantam ones are part of the handlebars
At this point i decided on a colour, Ceramco blue so got some bits painted up
And Tom Morris made me some stainless spokes for the rear
Rear wheel laced up
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Much excite, heading over tomorrow after work. How many other people are staying in the hahei campground?
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Spotted jeds Camaro today
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That would be awesome thanks
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My dads trusty makita hand linisher got put out of action the other day after it suffered from falling off the shelf. Its snapped the main aluminium casting in two.
Does anyone have one of these dead under their bench that i could buy to rob the bit i need?
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No idea but worth a try if you are interested in it
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I found this today
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Thanks for that Raizer, do you know of any Italian scooter wreckers/parts suppliers in NZ?
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Hey bike spammers, I recently got my Di Blasi mini bike back from my cousins which now doesn't run anymore. I have traced the problem to the CDI unit. Its an Italian made idm CDI unit P/N 040 4263. Would anyone know where i could get a new one or a suitable replacement?
49cc of folding Italian minibike
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Some cool old construction drawings for cycle cars
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Miss Bacfire, Austin 7 based bit with a bit more of an exciting power plant!
And this is probably my favorite cyclecar to date, i cant find any info on it though. I would be interested to know what the engine is
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Very cool project, where did you get the rims from?
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Where is all that stuff CUL8R ?
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Yeah sounds like a plan!
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Awesome, I'm looking forward to seeing it
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Thanks man, im looking foward to getting that norman off you!
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N3k, yes the main requirement to go on the tour was that you had to be dressed in a period costume for the whole event. Most of the penny farthing events overseas and especially in Australia everybody on a penny farthing seems to be wearing lycra which isn't a very good look so the Oamaru club has made it mandatory to wear period gear in the events.
I don't know about the Thomas Stevenson outfit Tortron but the ride has been going on for nearly 20 years now so i imagine it has been done.
Plans for the next project, i have a few on the go at the moment. My BSA bantam racer is leaning against the wall looking very sad after over a year of not being worked on now so i might get back into that, I am also doing a rebuild on a small home built plane with a friend of mine and restoring a vintage Vincent water scooter so i have a fair bit of stuff to keep me busy. Have you heard of David Wilson? he rode the length of NZ a couple of years ago on a penny, i think it took him a couple of months, obviously not much of a challenge compared to what you have done!
Yeah it sure was awesome Steelies, it might be an event for next year as well
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Yeah it was very cool to meet up with some of you OS guys st the swap meet! From what I heard Friday was the day to be there, lots of veteran and vintage motorcycle stuff that was all sold by Saturday.
The ride details were:
Day 1 was Arundel to Mt Somers, 25km. Day 2 was Erewhon to Mt Somers, 25km, We had an awesome tail wind and we probably had to only pedal 3km of that distance! Day 3 was Mt Somers to Rakaia 50km and the last day was Leeston to little river via a cycle trail around lake Ellesmere 50km. It was such an awesome event i can highly recommend it for anyone who is into old bicycles.
Here are a few pics from the ride
The 2 trailers with all the bikes loaded up
Here are 2 of the 3 really nice Dursley Pedersen replicas that were on the ride
Canturbury plains
Re tyring a rear wheel on the side of the road after the tension wire through the center broke
At the start of the cycle trail at Motukarara
Chris having a go at swapmeet
A shot with one of the sweet traction engines at swapmeet
Rakaia Tavern
Stack
line up
There are a heap more photos on the Oamaru ordinary cycle club FB page if anyone is interested too
Time to get onto some of the other projects......
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98cc's BSA Bantam racer build, FINISHED
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I cut out some holes for the go fast knee scallops, these large openings were quite handy as after i ground out the large amount of filler i could get in there with a dolly and get rid of all the dents, the tank is now real smooth and fair
also made up a little fill in patch for the front of the seat to blend into
after a good sanding to remove the surface rust