VG's grot bikes: CT200 AG & TA02 GYRO

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, yeh they probably will work then, lols.

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2 hours ago, tortron said:

I mean for brake levers

I did some CSI spec enhancement on the one for sale on TM, and it does indeed tick all my boxes, nice.

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Also first test ride was a ooge success, runs really well now, and all the little changes have made it much nicer to ride. I just need to grease and adjust the head set bearings and that's about it.

It's quite talkey, but does indeed max out around 90/95 on the flat, seems like it's running out of revs, so might try one of the smaller cogs and see if it has enough grunt to pull 100+.

Pretty happy with it tbh. Excellent.

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On 05/02/2024 at 19:55, tortron said:

Jialing one will work/it's the same thing. 

Otherwise look at Xl185 ones

This place doesn't seem to exist anymore. The internet told me Agtorque was an agent for Jialing, but they aren't, so not sure if there is an agent in NZ anymore? Had a hoon on Ali & ebay but no luck so far. 

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Well I did, I just don't want 200 of them.

https://tspemotor.en.made-in-china.com/product/qQiYHklTbSVj/China-Motorcycle-Spare-Parts-Right-Brake-Lever-for-Italika-FT-125.html

 

[tortron]

Oh damn, maybe a covid victim. I had his number somewhere. 

If you look for the Honda XL parts on amazon, Ebay, or aliexpress you should find the same parts 

[anglia4]

Have you tried Anaconda spares in Te Aroha?

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1 hour ago, anglia4 said:

Have you tried Anaconda spares in Te Aroha?

Not yet. I have now found a few options on ebay that will work, so will probably give one of them a shot. 

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Have done a few very short rides on this bad boy, and its running pretty damn good. Its quite nice to ride also, which is a bonus. At nats I did a 75km trip from nats HQ to a museum in Cambridge, and just to be safe, I decided to re-fill it before departing for nats HQ on the return trip. It went onto reserve in the middle of the road in front of the service station, which was a bit of a surprise, as I was told it would do 200km on a tank (6L) but had only managed 75ish. That's around 8L/100km, which isn't great. J5's bike which is very similar, and was pulling the same speeds, and is only 15cc smaller in capacity, used just over half as much from memory, so somethings not quite right. Its defiantly running rich, and often smells a bit gasey, but I cant find gas leaking out anywhere. Will dropping the needle make a noticeable difference? Cant really think of anything else to check/change?

I did manage to hit the metric ton in a two lane flat express way race with J5 though, so that's a new PB.

Also also, a person on TM who confirmed they had both racks I need, then ghosted me super hard when I tried to buy them. BUT I mentioned to a customer that I yarn to about shit old bikes, what I was after, said his best mate apparently has at least 6x CT200's laying around, so he is actively trying to source the racks for me, excite.   

Pic4fred:

 

Regards, VG.

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I wasn't expecting to buy another bike this week, but you know how it goes. An old man came into work and asked "How's your mates gyro going" referring to @Raizer sick rig, so obviously I'd mentioned it to him in the past. He then says he's going to sell his, so I had to go look at it. I then proceeded to fall in love. It's so hilarious. The dude I got it off was 76, and the previous owner was also an old man that got it for his import wife to use, but she never did. So it has quite a few old man spec "improvements" which include LED strip lighting riveted to the body with a crap ton of rivets. Paint "touch ups" which means badly applied rattle can paint with lots of over spray. Lots of random holes drilled in the body, every fastener they have applied is a different drive, and an oil line blocked off with a cupboard shelf support pin and copper wire. So she needs a bit of love and attention, but I was surprised to see it had aftermarket rear rims/tyres and an expansion chamber, so she might be making a few extra microwatts. Anyways, the new bike/trike is a 2001 Honda Gyro Canopy Wagon:

Note method of light attachment, and modified floor mat,

The lean over/hand brake lever has snapped off, so I need a new one of them. I'll also have to try clean up the windscreen, it's a bit messy.

Phat tyres, rice pipe, and old man reflective decorations. The OEM lock is gone, has old man spec latch, will sort something better,

Douglas racing rims, and sweet dice valve caps. 100% I'm going to redo the white lettering,

Powerplant. Needs an air filter and a few mounts made for fuel pump and coil, plus a few hoses need replacing. The pipe is quite neat,

I fucken love these rims/tyres TBH,

It's totally getting vinyl stuck on the headlights to make JDM angry slantey eyes,

The LED lights are coming off because the are horribly fitted and stick out like dogs bollocks, but I will probably refit them underneath and a more discreet manner. They have like a trillion settings too,

So yeh, lots to do, but pretty excited to finally have a gyro. 

Regards, VG.

[alfalfa]

On 12/03/2024 at 14:05, Vintage Grumble said:

Have done a few very short rides on this bad boy, and its running pretty damn good. Its quite nice to ride also, which is a bonus. At nats I did a 75km trip from nats HQ to a museum in Cambridge, and just to be safe, I decided to re-fill it before departing for nats HQ on the return trip. It went onto reserve in the middle of the road in front of the service station, which was a bit of a surprise, as I was told it would do 200km on a tank (6L) but had only managed 75ish. That's around 8L/100km, which isn't great. J5's bike which is very similar, and was pulling the same speeds, and is only 15cc smaller in capacity, used just over half as much from memory, so somethings not quite right. Its defiantly running rich, and often smells a bit gasey, but I cant find gas leaking out anywhere. Will dropping the needle make a noticeable difference? Cant really think of anything else to check/change?

I did manage to hit the metric ton in a two lane flat express way race with J5 though, so that's a new PB.

Also also, a person on TM who confirmed they had both racks I need, then ghosted me super hard when I tried to buy them. BUT I mentioned to a customer that I yarn to about shit old bikes, what I was after, said his best mate apparently has at least 6x CT200's laying around, so he is actively trying to source the racks for me, excite.   

Pic4fred:

 

Regards, VG.

Here's a thought, is the petrol tank crossover pipe blocked? Would only give you half the usable tank capacity which would appear similar as using shitloads of fuel...

[anglia4]

Doesn't look like they have anything like that. Just a standard single tank dealio.

[anglia4]

Checked the state of the air filter?

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11 minutes ago, anglia4 said:

Checked the state of the air filter?

Yeh the filter is mint, looks to be new. It doesn't need any choke to start, so I'm fairly sure its running rich. Smells a bit rich too. I'll start by dropping the needle down a bit and see what happens.   

[tortron]

Some of those china carbs have a Chode needle, short and fat, so past 1/3rd throttle its wide ope 

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Gave up trying to get factory racks for the CT, so slapped together a home made abomination from a random rack J5 gave me, with donor parts from one of the free Jialing farm bike racks I got from old mate in the hills. Welding poorly prepared (i.e. still had shitty powder coat on it) Chineseium steel was quite splatty. I also recycled rack off cuts and hung the lovely indicators J5 donated to me. (from an ER suzuki I guess?) Looks low at the back in pics, but is level IRL.

Then made a mount from more rack off cuts to hang a china rotapax off. I got two of them, but exhaust made it too hard to hang one either side.

I also modified the OG indicator brackets at the front to take the new units,

The barry spec mounting and wiring for the old indicators.

Then I investigated the muffler, the last baffle was shot to shit, it had lots of rust holes that had been filled with some putty, and the outlet was quite haggard. So I cut off the last section, fished out the remains of the baffle, then found a bit of tube exactly the right size and welded that on. Filled all the rust holes with weld. And then put on a silly looking little outlet pipe. Much better.

So just need to paint the rack and muffler, wire in the indicators, and then I can try remedy the nasty fuel consumption.

Regards, VG.

 

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21 hours ago, Vintage Grumble said:

Gave up trying to get factory racks for the CT, so slapped together a home made abomination from a random rack J5 gave me, with donor parts from one of the free Jialing farm bike racks I got from old mate in the hills. Welding poorly prepared (i.e. still had shitty powder coat on it) Chineseium steel was quite splatty. I also recycled rack off cuts and hung the lovely indicators J5 donated to me. (from an ER suzuki I guess?) Looks low at the back in pics, but is level IRL.

Then made a mount from more rack off cuts to hang a china rotapax off. I got two of them, but exhaust made it too hard to hang one either side.

I also modified the OG indicator brackets at the front to take the new units,

The barry spec mounting and wiring for the old indicators.

Then I investigated the muffler, the last baffle was shot to shit, it had lots of rust holes that had been filled with some putty, and the outlet was quite haggard. So I cut off the last section, fished out the remains of the baffle, then found a bit of tube exactly the right size and welded that on. Filled all the rust holes with weld. And then put on a silly looking little outlet pipe. Much better.

So just need to paint the rack and muffler, wire in the indicators, and then I can try remedy the nasty fuel consumption.

Regards, VG.

 

Definitely ER indicators. Local Suzuki dealer had them for $10/pair for years after keeping them from all the farm bikes. I guess supplies must be drying up by now.

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Extra dull update due to trying to look like I'm doing something at work. Rode the CT around until it ran out of gas. I did nearly all open road at about 85-90kmh, with a bit of slow sandy off roading. It did 162km on the 6.2L tank, which is about double what it did last time (less than 80km, but was all up big ass hills and WOT express way racing) So if I'm getting 26km/L, with my little extra 5L container, I should have a total range of about 290km. One thing that did LOL me, was I put it onto reserve, and got about 3km before it completely ran out of gas, so luckily I had the back up. The main tube in the tank must be missing or something, so its as low as the reserve tube.

Anyways, pic for Fred, me cruising for bitches,