Kimjon

Before.

After.

I really like the black glovebox lid, gives it that contrast look that all the cool kids are to their cars by painting/wrapping the bonnet black.

Apart from the dust and bugs, its so mint! Definitely going to paint more of my in shit in 2K. I have done a couple things in the past in 2K, but got lazy with the convenience of rattle cans, as 90% of the stuff I paint doesn't really matter if its durable or not. But yeah, this paint is so good.

I actually painted something in real paint that looks like it should. Well, apart from it coinciding with a dust storm and bug breeding season:

Paint leveled out so good, like glass. However I can see a small dent now that I couldn't see beforehand. Oh well, I'm still over the moon with it.

10 minutes ago, Truenotch said:

We've checked amongst the mods and I don't believe your posts have been deleted at all. You might have lost some posts if the forum rebooted at a bad time, which seems to have happened a few times lately. 

Sorry! I enjoy your posts, so please keep them up. 

Apologies then. I've lost a couple in the hunting/fishing section and one in here recently. All good, I'll take off my tin foil hat then.

My language must be offensive to some snowflakes on here as my posts are getting deleted more frequently these days, so I'll try again with less effort put in to it.

sandblasted and painted rear rack, to finish my tidy up job.

Hot off the press from Stevie Wonder paint works...

It looked like this beforehand.

Sandblasting it to get back to bare metal.

Zinc primer, then heavy filler primer to try fill the pitting.

Yeah/nah...okay...hmmm...fuck, cunt, shit, balls, cock! Turns out when matching paint, you should actually take a sample in with you to try match it to, rather than just saying "yeah mate, thats the one"... sight unseen.

Take 2, I repainted it again in a different colour.

Much better, but still a fair way off actually matching. And it came out like underseal this time, which was disappointing.

But fuck it, after repeating the "yeah mate, that's it" a second time, I just don't have it in me to go back a 3rd time to get more paint, so I can fuck it up again. So its close enough and I'm just going to live with it like that.

Hey, its better than rust, so it's still a win. 

The brass slip collar on mine exploded after about 20 minutes of total running time. But meh, doesn't feel any different without it and the belts so loose I can't see it wearing it out any quicker without it there.

The Cvt is weird though eh. I didn't think it was a great decision immediately after trialing it, then we raced each other on the drift trikes, it was clearly faster.

Looking good, love the colour choices 

7 minutes ago, Willdat? said:

The dream selection! What a hoard, I'm amazed you managed to dig them out so fast.

That's super generous of you but I'm in Nelson, I can organise a courier to collect though. Oliver will be stoked, the small end of the inside of reduction box looks sensible, but I'd love to give the 7 tooth a hoon and see if we can give it some snappier acceleration. 

Pm me your address and I'll send it to you. You can have whatever you need.

If its for a kid, come pick through it and take whatever you want for free

2 minutes ago, Willdat? said:

It's for a student's electric bike, that we're supposed to be racing in a fortnight, chances of getting something off Aliexpress in that time is pretty small. 

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNaZkeb

Something this style would be great, it's 1.5kW so technically overpowered for 25H, but it would be great to get it moving for the event! 

Yip, like this?

Most are 25h, a few of them are 35 pitch.

that reduction gear box looks 25h internals and external 35.

interested?

2 hours ago, Willdat? said:

Does anyone have any 25H sprockets lying around? Aiming for 9-15T would be ideal... @Muncie @Kimjon?

What style, purpose? Maybe? I have some little reduction gearboxs that will likely have something like that inside.

If I get an idea of what you're trying to achieve i may be able to sort something out?

Work in progress, but mostly done.

I've fixed the brakes by tightened the steering stem/bearings as it had a terrible shudder, this is completely gone now after tightening the stem. The brakes were fine, but I skimmed them in my lathe just because and gave them a scuff up with sandpaper to help bed them in again.

Next I'll sandblast my rack and paint it, now that I've modified it to hold the spare wheel. It had a stupid little storage container that rattled like a mains powered vibrator!

Chop chop!

Rack finished, works and looks awesome!

I'll paint the tank at the same time, as it has light surface rust on the top. Then some general tidy up stuff to do etc, but all just cosmetic stuff.

Spare wheel now a real feature, rather than it hiding away in shame under cover.

Cheap and fun way to learn about vespas.

FYI, just discovered a life hack. That plastic guage face was so yellowed by the sun and 20 years of scratches etc it was near impossible to see through.

This paint cutting compound had it crystal clear in about 30 seconds of rubbing (about the physical limit of my own endurance).

8 hours ago, xsinclairx said:

Did you buy another one? TF is wrong with you!? 

 

oh wait this is oldschool. It’s mandatory to have 6 bikes in the shed 

Oh my, I thought this was a nonjudgemental space for fellow enthusiasts with equal amounts of OCD to support each others hopes, dreams and aspirations?

Nah just fucking with ya. Yip, the struggle is real. I have a disease...

Vespa's FTW!!!

Home safe.

Scooter rack worked flawlessly, not a single issue or problem occurred traveling from Wellington to waikato.

Vespa all loaded, and already drawn attention while loading in up in Central Wellington. Couple dudes have stopped and asked where to buy one from.

Only mistake I made was leaving my handlebar clamping contraption behind. But a little kiwi ingenuity I've pretty much achieved the same result by using a spare tie down strap.

Road trip...

More video from race day.

Took it for a good road test. Still waiting on the supplementary plate to arrive, but figured I'd talk my way out of a ticket if I happened to get pulled over.

Pretty stoked with how it works everything clears and works as hoped-for. Boot can open with it on (bike off obviously). Ready for full send!

Nice work. I had to grind some of the inner structure away for chain clearance on my cvt. No drama, just marked out the parts that needed clearance and used a flap disc on a grinder.

Another year, and the trikes have bred. 15 trikes now, but only 11 turned up this year due to life, work, kids sport, adults sport and a sprained uterus (okay, that last one may not be true, as I don't think technically a man can have a uterus?).

Anyway, a great day with good mates, skids, beer, talking shit.

#trikelife