BLIZZO

added some extra range to the ST with a genuine Honda aux fuel can from a CT, now i have a whopping 5 litres in total

fuck i cannot wait for this ride!

I got all horny for the east cape ride the other day so decided to do a bit of work on the ST to get it cape ready.

Finally fabbed up a nice solid mount to hold my genuine honda auxiliary fuel can, have just under 5 litres of total capacity now.

Was trying to figure out what to do with the OG air cleaner as i want it on there as it looks cool. I have ordered a very upright tight bend inlet manifold to bring the carb forward so i can squeeze a filter sock in there tucked between the frame and the back of the OG air cleaner housing. Plan is to remove the guts of the filter housing and use it to house the CDI, Coil, Reg/Rec etc and maybe a few emergency tools / spare CDI / Coil etc.

This think was leaking a bit of oil from when i built the engine and was jumping in and out of second gear. put the oil leak down to a shitty chinese o ring for the oil return so i pulled the engine to bits and sorted that and used a think smear of 3 bond on the gaskets for extra goodness. i hate using RTV but often chinese engines require a bit cos of shit machining. I noticed the shift drum / shift star had a bit too much lateral movement, so i pulled the located bolt that holds it in on the other side of the engine above the sprocket and noticed it didnt have a washer on it which it needs, so re installed with a washer and hopefully that solves the gear jumping issue, really dont want to split the cases again. holy fuck this thing had some boogy when i rode it (just not in second gear obvs) feels much faster than my YX140 in the trombone

got that all back together now, just waiting on some New HD clutch springs to turn up

few little things to sort for the cape is some baggage, i have a tank bag that mounts to those strops on the frame, and thinking of getting an aliexpress handlebar bag to put on the bars. im going full minimalist on this trip and dont want to wear a backpack.

the pine is strong.

Well the young fulla is almost two so probs time to get him on a bike. Always wanted him to having something old and lush and when @UTERUS chucked his z50r up for salwith I grabbed it. Gunna give it a full strip down, rebuild the engine and re spray it in the correct “Blaze red” colour which is orangy red as seen in the photo below. 

Its a 1982 model, pretty excited to get it restored tbh 

over the last 5 or so weeks ive been working at night smashing out a cub build for a workmate of @Sparkles. initially was gunna be wang a lifan at it and some low bars but old mate changed his mind and it transformed into a 100% stripdown for paint and then a pretty involved build. frame turned out to originally be a 90 so needed modifications to mount a lifan engine which then caused a few more issues as the engine sat further forward, so exhaust had to be modified to fit. Not too much custom fab work just little things like handle bar mount and light brackets and a few other bits and bobs, running no battery and lights straight off the rectifier. Wanged some new michelin tyres on it which seem to feel really nice, turned out to look like a damn sweet bike i reckon.

Sooooooo another scoot collected by some GCs today, cheers @Threeonthetree and @GuyWithAviators, this one is not for me though.

lately my old man has been pining my small bike collection and has hinted he would like one again. He’s almost retired now and have recently just downsized their section considerably so has a bit more time on his hands. He did his apprenticeship as a jockey and worked as a jump  jockey from like age 13-29, after a very successful race career a massive spade of 2 dozen concussions and a badly broken back forced his retirement and my grandad got him a job as a meter reader with the power board, and he’s still doing that to this day.

his first vehicle with the power board was a blue Suzuki FR70, here’s me cheesing on it taking big bear for a hoon

So this early FR50 has been on trademe for a while, both @Snoozin and @Threeonthetree had viewed it and said it was pretty tidy. When Richie said he wasn’t to keen anymore I jumped on it.

and tonight those GCs above collected it for me!! 

Have until September which is the old boys birthday that I will surprise him with it. Will do a little bit of tidying before them, maybe new tyres, get it road legal, general maintenance. Honestly can’t wait to hoon into their cul-de-sac and see the look on his face!

welllll i mentioned a wee while ago that i had scored a bargain a CB50 off trademe, only problem was it was in kerikeri, so i didnt pick it up for ages as the owner was happy to store it in his lockup. Anyhow fast forward to last weekend and i had convinced the wife of a lovely long weekend holiday in Paihia before baby no2 arrives, there just happened to be a bike to collect while we were there, so yea, that happened.

the dude that was selling it now lives in auckland so his pommy expat old man let us into the storage unit. such an awesome dude, great yarns about moving to auckland and how much they love it here, the brought the CB50 about 10 years ago for his boys to potter around kerikeri on without getting into too much trouble, he was super stoked to see it go to someone that was pining it.

so got it home and took a before picture before i rip it to bits

in my style i absolutely love the patina, seat is soooooo chunny though. took it for some hoons and even after cleaning the carb its running real rich and fouls the plug after a few mins, WOT is great when its running tho and smacks over 80kph some what easy which is amaze for a 50cc 4 stroke for this vintage. new aliexpress carb on its was should sort it.

ordered a whole bunch of parts to make it cool and promised myself i wouldn't touch the bike until the bits arrived. that promise lasted about 3 hours

hopefully the frame hoop arrives soon and i can get the seat mounted properly. will eventually wang some 3" tyres on it too which should look quite cool.

there is several bikes in my garage now, all partially disassembled and not ride-able. I'm silly