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gazguy

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  • Birthday 09/02/1980

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  1. I can lend a hand. Im in shirley and can bring some tools/welders etc
  2. To get rid of the lifan badges I ground off the rib on the clutch cover and polished that up then mounted a ''honda'' side cover from mbike that i bought from a mate 2nd hand and gave that a minor polish to contrast the painted cases. This bikes had more small touches to it than Jimmy Saville did on top of the pops!
  3. My seat is finally done so I took no time in mounting it. So stoked with it. My mate Josh upholstered it for me. He did a stellar job on it as usual
  4. More little details that most will probs overlook. The stem nut for the forks looked kinda average so I thought I'd make a cover for it. I bought some napkin rings from a vinnies op shop. I got 8 of them for 10 bucks. I bored one out on my lathe so it would fit over the nut and spacer. Then I drilled a 5mm hole through the stem nut and tapped it M6. Them I got 6mm aluminium from work, marked and drilled the center and fixed it to a spigot in my lathe and turned it to the same od as the napkin ring. Same principle as a headset cap on a BMX/MTB
  5. Just some more assembly pics I narrowed the bars too by 50mm each side Just waiting on my seat now and hook up the brake rod
  6. I was gonna get the frame blasted (I wish I had) but due to time restraints I stripped it myself with the combination of a strip it disc and stripper. Some filler, black primer, paint and a clothes line later.... I carried on with the assembly that I could and came into a problem with the chain, which should have been resolved during the mock up but I thought the notching of the mudguard would have solved that. I t didnt so I came up with the solution of using 2 skateboard wheels instead of just the one. So I made a bracket which located on the original tensioning wheel and the swingarm mount ( which I originally was going to cut off ) I poured some fuel in and it started 1st kick. Im waiting on a throttle cable being delivered then I can tune it properly
  7. Exhaust was the last of the major fab work to do so I thought I'd at least get it all mocked up and tacked together I also had to extend the bracket that the brake rod attaches too also
  8. Syds Run is almost a month away, I've had a few things going on preventing me from doing as much as I wanted to do. I've got whanau visiting from the UK and left my job of 4 1/2 years so I've got 2 weeks off before I start my new job I couldnt find a hinge that was suitable for the seat so I made one from the leftovers of my sissy bar and some 5x50mm stainless flat bar Next job to tick off the list was the new front wheel spacers for my new front wheel I cut out a tab for the rear brake stay bar to mount to the tacked it to the frame, and also made the rear brake stay bar from some 25x3mm stainless flatbar I did a similar thing on the other side this time for a chain tensioner The last job from the weekend was to add some foam to the seat base. I bought a couple of rolls of yoga mat from the warehouse and some spray adhesive and kept adding layers of foam to build up the padding. Once the glue has set the foam is then easy to shape with a sanding block and coarse sandpaper. I'll a bit more time on shaping it better to suit my J-Lo booty or lack of it better
  9. I wasnt really happy with the seat base I made so I learned from my mistakes and made another one. I'm happier with the fitment of this one too and also made the ''queen'' part of the seat. I'll get a few rolls of sleeping mat from the warehouse and start adding the foam. I need to make the hinge for the front too.
  10. I drilled and tapped the mudguard bungs the bolted them on. Then started bended up some 16mm stainless round bar for the sissy bar. After some dicking around with my pipe bender and heat I came up with semi symmetrical shape but I wasnt really happy with it so I cut it in half and flipped it around, so my mistake kinda worked out in my favor. Once I'd done that I thought I'd get the struts out of the way 1st before I welded the top part of the sissy bar on then I tacked the top part on. I've always wanted a spool hub for this bike to match the smoothed fork legs. An old lady was selling some of her partners bike bits on marketplace and this wheel was one of them. She was super nice, we yarned for abit, I paid her then on my way out I walked straight into her hanging basket bracket. It nearly knocked me on my arse and I was close crying once I got in the car
  11. To get the front wheel rolling in a straight line I had to make some reducing spacers as the forks and axle are 12mm and the wheel bearings were 17mm one side and 15mm the other. It would have been easier to buy new bearings with the same od as the old ones and the same id as the axle. But I had some round bar and I have a lathe... I took it off the lift to get a good look at it from a distance, I'm pretty happy with it This bikes gonna have a sissy bar so I got some 16mm stainless round bar to make the sissy bar and some 19mm round bar to make the bungs. Before i go too far I need to figure out the seat pan and how far it goes back to meet the sissy bar. So I started making the base. I want it to fit as low as it can go so I had to accommodate the fuel gauge and the the fuel cap.
  12. Slip in to my Dm's Pete and we'll sort something out....
  13. I thought I'd shave my legs this weekend, never done it before but I've seen it done heaps of times. First I dismantled them and removed the seals. Then proceeded to cut the unwanted tabs and mounts off with my noisy as fuck bandsaw. Once the bulk of them was removed I chucked it in the lathe and smoothed everything out I also fully welded the frame and welded the rear mudguard to the body and made some patches to fill in the gaps. I had extend the length of the steerer tube on the fork clamps as there wasnt enough thread for the top nut when it was all fully assembled. So I cut it and added 20mm. I drilled a 10mm hole through all the pieces and inserted some 10mm rod through them all for alignment and glued them all up with the tig. Once it had cooled I filed it down smooth then assembled it all to the frame, and mounted the headlight I bought at the swapmeet at the weekend
  14. A few updates on the ST90. I got the front and rear wheels relaced with different rims and new spokes, also put more practical tyres on it too. I also got some better forks which werent pitted and leaking oil. They also had the quick release lever too which was snapped on mine. Got some chrome front and rear guards too and a new seat from mBike.
  15. Not many pics to show this time but quite a bit of progression. I took the frame from the jig and put on the forks and wheels etc to make sure I've got the stance how I want it. The hardtail is just tacked up at the moment incase I need it make any alterations. Im pretty happy with how it sits. I bought a new 125 semi from Andy and Wie at mBike. Fitted that and a new rear sprocket to check for any alignment issues. Then I put on some Goldwing footpegs that I've been hoarding for a good few years and mounted them to a modified footrest that I'd originally had mounted to my chaly.
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