gazguy

its been a while since I actually put a hand on this bike, Ive been off work on ACC recovering from a dislocated shoulder (the same one I dislocated in 2018 and the same one I had clavicle surgery in 2020) and felt up to start tinkering with it and getting some motivation to maybe get it ready for this years Syds. I thought I'd took photos of the engine mounts but i hadnt. I'll fully weld them up tomorrow and take some then. Today I nutted out the intake manifold and got that buttoned up. I had a few 90 degree bends kicking about and some flat plate which I made some flanges from and just jigsawd them together. I thought I'd try on some factory chaly bars and I think theyre a winner

I started on the swingarm, I considered using the zundapp one but i couldnt get away with the swingarm and chainguard being one piece and didnt want to dick around altering it to accomodate the c50 style rear wheel. Its basically the same thickness as the original but made from solid flat bar. Ive made it from two separate parts to give it that pressed look. Plug welded the smaller piece to the bigger with 10mm perimeter. I used an old ct90 swingarm that was stuffed for the bushes. With everything tacked together I tried it on the frame to make sure it'll work Pretty happy with how it sits, I ll use some 260mm thai style shocks that i have on my chaly and make some mounts for them just in front of the axle slots. I took the rear rack off and it looks way better. I'll make a fully enclosed chainguard but make it removable like a c50 for maintenance and accessability

I picked up some wheels from marketplace, originally I think theyre from the mBike c50 deluxe kit bikes they brought in a few years back. I got some new tyres, tubes, rear sprocket and chain from mBike to mount to them. Front wheel loosely mounted to the forks with the tyre

Ive had this Zundapp Combinette for about a year and thought I'd get started on getting on the road. I bought it just as roller with no engine and all the good bits/hard to find parts taken from it The first time I saw one of these was at Aaron Cards shed when he lived at West Melton. I fell in love with the art deco lines and styling, when this came up for sale at a good price I snapped it up. Plans for it are to do a cholo sled sled style, metal flake paint, fish tail tips, bling wheels and lifan conversion

The front is one I got from marketplace 21 inch wheel with spool hub, maybe from a speedway bike? Rear is c50 hub laced to a 17inch alloy rim from a dirtbike I think

I can lend a hand. Im in shirley and can bring some tools/welders etc

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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