Chunky_t

The factory one didn't have the rubber mounts when I looked, it has a round headlight off a dr125 now I think, that's rubber mounted. But everything did work fine with the new headlight and such.

Possibility I plugged something in wrong when fiddling around with the headlight bucket? Bit of a mission figuring out what everything is without a diagram

Hey dudes

Having some issues with the lights on my ax, they were working fine, I took my headlight off to mount up my dash/speedo plate and ever since I put it back together my lights work, but they are eeeextremely dim, can't see them in daylight, you really have to look close to see anything

Wiring is a bit of a confusing topic for me, anyone have any ideas as to what would be causing this? Seems odd they worked fine then all of a sudden didn't.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Any performance differences with no baffles?

Also, how much did you have to go up on the jets in the carb with pod filters?

How did you go about removing the baffles from the exhausts? Could be keen on a similar endeavour on my ax100 for maximum bee swarm noises.

I see you ring ding past my work on rangitikei street fairly often, it's a rad machine in person! Even had a good gawk at it at polished rockers, epic work!

I recently joined in on the AX movement, mine does that weird knocking on deceleration too, don't know what it is but mine doesn't fluctuate rpm when it happens. Runs fine so It's all good. 

also so many cheap parts on aliexpress. mine had a piston meltdown (got it and it was seized) bought a new barrel, piston, rings, gaskets and reed block for $177 to my door and it only took 5 days from china!

Mines also having all of the electrical woes as yours. It's a tad annoying to say the least huh

Mine was flooding real bad too, but I noobed out and put the air breather hose for the carb and the fuel hose around the wrong way loool

There seems to be a theme with these FR's.. Lol

I bought it off nick, I think it's from the modern motorcycle company, maybe. That Australian site.

And Steve, it has the plate 54LIG and it's awesome because it reads 5 ALI G and all I can think of is Ali g in da house lol.

Also no luck on fixing running problems, might be pilot jet, cause when it does start it revs if you give it the beans but won't Idle, but I started it cold today and it idled away pretty fine, rode it round the lawn and left it idling for a while and it was fine, died after a while and now it's being a dog. No idea what's going on.

Damn, don't have a heat gun. Any alternative? Might try the paint can prying type method first

How did you get that rubber boot off the carb? I had trouble with that on my 50 too, just ended up not being able to get it off.

Yeah I think it's rich, the plug is black, and after cleaning it and kicking it over a bit it comes up wet, which isn't good.

Would a good carb clean help it out? was fine before I had to take the throttle slide out to change a cable, I suppose some renegade dirt could have ended up in there somewhere. Keen to get it mint again so I can danger ride it and terrorize the public with some two stroke scream 

Okay so this thing is running like shit, running is pushing the boat out a bit even, it'll fire up, I'll be able to give it some revs but it won't idle nicely. It'll die after a few seconds and backfire, or sit at a very low boggy idle and won't respond to opening the throttle. It will just stay at it's boggy idle situation. 

If anyone can shine some light on this it would be greatly appreciated. These old two bangers seem to be pretty tempremental..

So I couldn't help myself and got into doing some mods. Chucked a new smaller tail light on and put the forks off the 50 on it cause my mate stacked it into a van and bent the ones on it. massive fail but shit happens.

here's the result of the modifying shenanigans 

Shit quality iphone photo's cause that's all I have to take some snaps with lol.

Reviving this post, the 50 has been at a bit of a stand still but I got my hands on this... 

It's a Suzi FR80, not sure what year, it has no baffle in the exhaust so it's louder than a drunk 18 year old girl. goes well too. minimal things done to it so far, I put the 2.5" rear tyre onto the front and had another 2.5" lying around so I biffed that on the back. Has a sweet sui shifter and my make shift flannel seat that was on the 50. keeping it mellow so far. I'm pretty stoked with it

Can't do that, since the bar set up I made for it is quite a lot lower than the standard one there is minimal clearance for anything, if I run the lever pointing downwards too far that hits too. If I really want a mirror might get a bar end mirror for it. Probably the best bet.

Polished up the front brake drum, I'm painting the rest of the wheel black so this sucker will pop

They looked about as shit as this before.

And I found an old brake lever of an abd bmx I might use for a front brake lever, perfect size. and a better look at the bar arrangement ft. ghetto ass speedo, oh and odd grips, lol.

Do I run a mirror? thoughts on this? I thought it looks a bit goofy 

Yeah man flannel for more lumberjack points. Probably going to get a better seat in the future, buy some decent foam and get the bread knife onto it. Should work a treat

So today we made some hard tail struts for this thing so it's sitting a lot lower and fashioned up a shitty foam seat and wrapped in it an old flannel shirt I had lying around. Looks a little bit better now.

I got my hands on a '74 FR50 for bugger all, but it wasn't running and looked like it had been neglected for some time by previous owners, it didn't run and none of the electrics worked.

I later learnt it's a FR50K which was the very last of the '74s before they ceased production until 1981 (I think) but there isn't too much difference, just cosmetic stuff, like paint, the plastic piece that screws to the forks and the seat. that's all I've noticed that's different to a normal '74 FR50 so far.

I don't have any photos of it together because I was far too keen to strip it down for paint/other mods.

It was pretty rusty to begin with, nothing too major though just surface rust mostly.

The front rim is pretty bad (that's the rear one) and has a sweet speed (rust) hole near the valve. she'll be right though.

It also had a sick rattle can black paint job on the frame 

So first thing I got around to doing was painting it, but as it always goes I got too keen on sussing out some mods before I had finished painting it, so here it is post primer, and it looks shit. kinda looks like a slug in this photo

I got my hands on some LTZ400 quad handle bar mounts and cut them up to fit in a narrower gap, and drilled out some existing holes to fit the 10mm bolts for the mounts, worked really well. Came out something like this; 

Ignore the bars, those are some random mock ups that were made out of a shitty warehouse broom handle.

Also cut up the standard bar mount thing that houses the ignition and what not so it filled the gap between the head tube and the leg guard a bit and looks sort of tidier.

Continued to mess around with bar mock ups; 

Thought these kinda looked silly, made it look sad or something so decided against making bars with that kind of downsweep.

With the help of Mitch (Mitch.W on here I think) we got rowdy with the grinder and chopped the rear guard off and had a look to see what it would look like slammed. 

Definitely going to make it low (not this low though) in the future via some hard tail struts, kind of ghetto way to do it but it'll do the job.

It then turned green..

This is pretty much as far as I have got with it so far, still needs a few things but I want to get it to run first,

Needs headlight/tail light, throttle cable, and a seat and it's pretty much good to go.

Here are some photos I took to see what I want it to look like when it's finished more or less. Probably going to paint the wheels black though.

Still haven't made the hard tail struts so it's just sitting on the tyre here but you get the idea. 

Will keep posting updates as it progresses