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With the rear guard painted and mounted I turned my attention the rear tail light bracket. One of the mounts had snapped and I'd forgotten where the snapped part went so I made my own and tig'd it up. Painted it black and fitted new hardware, when I was cleaning the rubber grommets I came across the other part of the mount..... oh well. I ordered a new wiring loom from aliexpress instead of modifying the original. Its a pretty good fit the only thing I need to modify is where the wires for the ignition switch go. The headlight bucket had some pretty decent cracks in it so I reinforced them with some 2 part epoxy, polished up the indicators and mounted them

A small update nothing too major. originally i had painted both mudguards, painted them both with with 'gloss' aluminium paint but overall i wasnt very happy with outcome. They were very shiny but showed greasy fingerprints like a m'fer. My mate Steve messaged me last night asking if I was still looking for guards and he said he had a front one in ok condition and a chainguard which are apparently hard to come by. He called in this morning to drop them off from his place in oxford, GC! The front looks much nicer now and with the rear guard clearcoated it looks less gawdy. I also picked up an SL70 yesterday. Ive been looking for a while with no luck only getting xr75 parts instead. So if anyone has any sl70 parts and want xr75 parts instead hit me up and we can do a trade

I was going to get the wheels blasted and powder coated but came to the conclusion that I'll either wait and find some rims in good condition and get them rebuilt with the original hubs or find a pair that are in better condition. same with the guards. I hit the guards with the sander to remove the heavy flakes of rust and sandblasted the hard to reach areas, then primed them. The front guard isnt too bad but the rear has heavy pitting so I'll fill them with body filler and spray the guards with gloss aluminium paint. Cos the missus works Sundays I try and get as much done in the garage as possible then, today I got the tyres mounted. The front I had from a while back, 17x2.50 and the rear a 17x2.75 which I bought from Adam at MCDU in Christchurch. The engine is mounted, its the old one from my chaly, 125cc manual

Because it was such a nice day today I thought it would be a good time to spray some parts. before I painted them I degreased them and threw them in the blast cabinet. I did the centre stand, brake pedal, bottom triple tree and the swingarm.

I stripped the bike down to the bare frame, I made new engine plates to replace the ones that came with the "conversion". The ones I made bolt to the existing suzuki mounts to stop them from pivoting. The guy who done the conversion cut the frame to allow clearance for the Lifan, when he cut the frame he cut it to pretty much a 90 degree, which to me could lead to the frame cracking. So I welded in a fillet piece with a radius.

So I picked this up last week from a young fella in Lincoln, money was exchanged and because my Nissan Homy currently doesnt have a WOF I stripped it down squeezed it into my Nissan Cube. it was advertised as an AC50 with the frame modified for a Lifan. Ideal I thought as thats what I was intending to do anyways and thought the young chap had done the hard work for me. That was only partly true, The top mount for the engine was done not too bad but the bottom mounts not so much. And the way the frame had been cut will lead to cracking so I'll remedy that. As soon as I got home I reassembled the parts and threw in a Chinese engine I'd picked up cheap at the swapmeet. My plans for the bike are going to be to make a tidy wee bike cruising around the bays on the shingle roads Everything thats green on the bike will be left as is, maybe a good polish. If its black its getting stripped to bare metal and either paint or powdercoat. The same goes for most of the chrome parts. All the aluminium foil and coke in the world isnt going to bring the chrome back The rims on the wheels are pretty rusty but solid, so I'm thinking of blasting them and get them powdercoated. Replace the bearings and brake shoes with new items and put shinko 241s on them I want the bike to be tidy but not spend a huge amount of money on it

Hey mate, the loom I got made was literally plug and play. The guy who made it wanted to know what switches I was using, what plugs they used etc and he made it to suit. Hes 428 Garage on instagram

A quick update on my dads ST90, I always thought the shocks were a little tall so I replaced them with some shorter chrome ones from mBike. I think theyre about 30mm shorter. The stance is so much better now. I replaced the innertube on the rear wheel as it had a pinch, cleaned the chain and lubed it. Took it for a test ride and got sprayed with oil from it. I thought I'd dried it enough, obviously not... so I made a chainguard out of some 50x100 aluminium RHS i got from work. I never had the end cap that covers the flasher unit side of the tool box so I flogged the lid from the pickle jar and painted it black. My dad passed away in February from a short battle with a very aggressive cancer. So this year I'm riding his bike to syds run and made a laminated photo to mount to the front guard. I'll get some double sided tape tomorrow and mount it. I'll be wearing his favourite Burt Munro hoodie that he got when we went to Invercargill in 2016 and wear his helmet too.

Its been a long while since ive done an update on my chaly, but I've been chipping away at it lately to try and make it more reliable so I can use it as my daily to work when the weather gets abit warmer and the mornings get lighter earlier. Basically I've installed a new semi auto lifan 125 a new purpose built loom smaller headlight, remounted the front guard to the underside of the forks pullback bars and genuine chaly switches made some bosses from 25NB pipe for the front fork reflectors installed new rubber fork boots fitted rear rack fitted nibbi carb

I picked up some rear shocks from mBike on friday, Theyre the exact length I wanted and they match the lines of the frame/swingarm perfect. I bought 2 different styles, one more of a classic look, the other a more modern twist. Andy and Wei as always were great to deal with.

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