Popular Post BLIZZO Posted January 11, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2022 no wrapping paper sorry @HighLUXbut it did get a pretty bow. Cheers to doozi for sorting the decals last minute. Wee man was super cheesed and has done lots of putting around on it with me on the back getting used to the throttle. Seems to find it a lot harder to balance than a push bike, most likely cos it just weighs more than him. More practice and he will get there. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BLIZZO Posted January 12, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2022 Then, resided to being down to only one project in the shed, a great deal on a bike ive always wanted to scratch the itch of owning popping up. A 1989 Honda NX650 dominator. The dominator was a faired, more street / city traily type bike made in the late 80's and 90's. the engine was an XR600 donk bored and stroked out to 650cc. Kinda a poverty back single cylinder, lighter version of the africa twin. Did I need it? no, did i buy it? hell yes. What its supposed to look like: 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BLIZZO Posted January 12, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2022 Dude that owned it has had it for 16 years. Road it all around the north island commuting for work. it was lightly dropped prior to his ownership hence the repaint of the fairings. it has been painted very well though and has stood up perfectly to 16 years of his ownership. 5 years ago it "developed a carb issue" so he took it to the stealership who cleaned the carb and gave it back and it was no better, being non mechanically minded and strapped for crash he parked it in a shed. 5 years later I know own it. It popped up on the tard for a super cheap asking price and i must have caught it right after listing as i just emailed saying ill take it and then the popped through a bank account, cash transferred i went to waipawa the next morning to collect. Luckily these things have a colt like following especially in europe where they sold in pretty big numbers, there is heaps of bits available and a plethora of information available. i soon found out that they are notorious for poor solder joins in the CDI which crack and give weird "carb like" intermittent spark issues. They don't typically die, just run like crap. I figured this was enough of a lead to bust out the craft knife and open up the CDI. after spending an hour peeling off all the silicone then using my sons kathmandu explorers kit magnifying glass i noticed 3 joins with cracked solder. I gave the CDI to Winny who is good with such electrical things and he reflowed it for me. i then slathered it in black RTV and gooed the cover back on. before trying to start it i thought id clean the carb as it was sitting for so long. Ive pulled apart a lot of carbs over the last few years, and this is hands down the dankest of dank. why the hell is it green! a good soak in degreaser cleaned everything up. I will run it through @Flauskis ultrasonic cleaner to make sure. I have ordered a new carb kit off wemoto and will do some common airbox / jetting mods for more hunu's while im at it. Fingers crossed the kit arrives soon and it will purr like a kitten. While apart i did some other boring jobs such as new battery, reset tappets and other general maintenance. keen as to get it re-vinned and hoon. Also, check out the old main jet after it was cleaned, were they running this thing on acid? Bliz 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 How do you keep track of what fasteners go where, when you send them for plating? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLIZZO Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 On 02/02/2022 at 17:30, anglia4 said: How do you keep track of what fasteners go where, when you send them for plating? pretty high tech system. we stripping i bag and tag then in small lots in zip lock bags. then before planting i separate all the bags laid out over a couple of workbenches with a bit of masking tape naming what bag they are out of and a ruler nex to them for scale. once i photograph all of them they go in a bucket for planting. once back the jigsaw puzzle commences of separating them all back into their little bags. actually way easier than it sounds. He changes more for seperate bags but not a heap, on a big bike i might give him two lots, one for frame and one for engine etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BLIZZO Posted March 22, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 22, 2023 She's been a while since ive updated this. Have been a bit busy playing with bikes that arent exactly oldschool. A few things have been added to the stable since the last post and a few sold off. The Dommie went to a good home and old mate was super stoked. I purchased this choice old CT125 thats currently in Hogans shed that i need to get further north if anyone is heading up with a ute or trailer. Even to blenhiem will do. I was meant to get it when down for the Dusty Butt, ferry cancellation ruined that. I grabbed an XR100 of @Chris.QCR which is super rad. few wee jobs to get it going and moving and used it at garlic masters which was hella fun. Last winter I added a new DRZ400 to the stable after thinking it was going to be my dream small adventure bike, which it kind of was at the time. Dropped about 5k doing heaps of mods to make it adventure friendly and used it on a 600km "one big day" adv ride in raglan and then appx 2500kms in 4 days for the Dusty Butt down south. Went great and I should be really happy with it but I rode a KTM exc for an hour or so on the ride, and was kinda converted. Oil change frequency goes out of your mind when something can slap a full ear to ear smile like the KTM did, and that was an older model 2013, the new ones are even better, so, when i got home the DRZ got cleaned and slapped onto trademe and I payed AFC motorcycles a vist and came home with this. 2023 500 exc-f. Have ordered bunch of bits to adventurise it, larger acerbis tank, seat concepts seat, fastway footpegs, new plastics to keep the OEM ones fresh, steel sprocket, XRC dampened bar mounts, stiffer fork and shock springs which i already biffed in. Should make a pretty sweet technical trail adventure rig. Already planning out some sweet west coast mining exploration routes which should be sweet. 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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