Kimjon

Looking good man! I've been hard out watching cafe racer TV on YouTube. This style is really growing on me, in particular your bike and moto guzzi (ural and Honda too) with the v or boxer style motors, so cool!

Yes!!!

Free delivery, total GC...and although his van was rather big, I didn't end up in a rape dungeon...so things couldn't have gone better.

I've got a lot of ideas for this, some of them are even good ones.

I'll start keeping an eye out for parts and see where this goes depending on what pops up.

So, I found this body shell online. And the dude is driving from Napier to Auckland this weekend and has agreed to meet me about 10km from my house with it in his van...total GC!!!

Its almost to good to be true, I hope its not a situation I end up regretting, as I'm pushed into said van and wake up days later naked, chained to a pole in his basement? But hey, at least I won't have to worry about doing the shopping and paying the bills...

*I'm not actually serious about the van, I've already declared my undying support for vans, van drivers and all things van related in an early post*

I've never liked this helmet (looks wise), its clear coat was flaking off, it had shitty giant white JETPRO logos at front that looked a bit dorky etc. So I decided that I'd paint it army green, however I liked the distressed look so much when I sanded it down in preparation, I decided to clear coat it as is.

If I get bored with this look, then I'll just scuff it up and go army green. But im going to rock like this for now.

Not sure how "legal" this is, but sure beats running outta gas 6km from home like last time.

Okay, shits gettin real!

Yeeeehah!!!

Yes, yes I am...

Dada da da dah, dada da da da dadahh!!!

Going to pay tribute to my favorite show as a kid, the Dukes of Hazzard. Nothing says redneck like the General Lee, so time to start numbing my brain with moonshine and start creating:

Made a good start, more to come...

Back on the 50cc. So slow, so ridiculously slow...but so much fun.

My wife took off down the road on it, disappeared for 45 minutes, but returned in the best mood. The magic power of scooters!

I brought a new guage to fix a problem. However the pin outputs were different than mine.

Everything I've touched lately gets fucked by my own hands! I started cutting, soldering and splicing the loom together, then realized all I needed to do was unplug the bulbs from the speedo and keep the harness intact. So its now half and half, as I'd already done one side. I guess its better than never starting at all, but sometimes a little fore thought may go a long way?

Anyway, after stretching the speedo cable outer sheath (more dick fingers at work) and then having to cut a bit off it to enable the inner cable to fit back into both ends to fix it. I sorted the wires and now all is good in the world, with working guages.

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.