Popular Post flyingbrick Posted December 26, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2018 Hi all. been wanting to share this for a while here. I'm totally in love with this thing. I got tired of missing out on all the rides and when I did manage to attend it was on @64valiants bikes. I also needed to find a way to stop being such a hermit and to kinda get interested in life again. I missed out on a few good deals and vowed to act quickly should anything good pop up. Ideally it'd be a larger scoot with enough power to keep up with the cool kids and go places without frustrating the public. This MB came up on TM for $600.Its pretty much famous as the old ownership papers show it was first owned by Patricia Hekia Parata (lol) I rode it for a while on the 30 year old tires, then installed my carbon fiber bars (its just straight CF tube from the NF75), re-wired the whole thing with full wave rectifier and 12v, made a smoothing battery type thing out of a stack of capacitors (this works REALLY well!), installed new tires, had Midnight Upholstery re-cover my seat in crocodile vinyl, designed a new gauge cluster in F360 and had @Roman 3d print it for me (damn its nice), etc etc etc. There's more to the story but nobody is probably even reading this far though :-D. one of the best parts is some blokes that used to bucket race these things so theres tons of info on how to make them go fast i haven't done any of that yet but theres still time :-D. During pickup First nightmare kawhia trip- this one made me want working lights At @Beavers new pad. Greg did seat stuff He fitted new foam to the factory seat base. I considered using ply (see background sitting on heater) but the steel just fits so perfect its silly to not use it. This was done right before our second (first successful) trip to kawhia. No time to cover it so it was installed and used as-is. The lower curved edge of seat base was trimmed straight before covering. on the way to kawhia with greg and 10/5 Did this design and render in F360. Really wanted the new component to fit straight into the existing light housing and be as close to factory fitment as possible. the gauges are all off Ali Express- I did the render while waiting for them to arrive. The sales blurbs had enough measurements and images for me to relatively accurately do this. Roman printed me one in black and then one in orange. The orange was too choice to not use. During the big re-wire. the bike only had working indicators when collected. I was able to get one filiment of the headlight working (hard wired) but there were some serious wiring faults that prevented the tail lights from working. The headlight was dim at idle and the indicators wouldn't even flash unless revs got up. I either replaced or tested all individual wires and switches on the bike. Many of those shit bullet connectors were replaced with proper plugs. I then wrapped the whole loom in tesa tape. I got lucky on this LED lamp. This was purchased off AE and the style was a total guess. Nothing is available off the shelf to fit the factory lamp holder. This one had one tab that lined up and by bending the steel bodies fingers inward It was able to not fall out. Very happy with how this worked out and its updated the factory headlight extremely well. The head studs were all barely tight and greg noticed shit hissing out when i rocked up to his place one day. Probably gained 2hp by tightening these. Finished seat! I love this thing. Considered buying off AE but decided to get something done right for once- and super happy i did. It fits and feels so damn good. Commissioning the bikes new wiring was a total mind-fuck. Part of converting the bike to full-wave 12v is doing whats called "floating" the stators coil. To float the coil you remove the coils center output and the coils earth... then you attach the wire that you cut off the center of the coil onto the end of the coil that was once earthed. EG, the coil no longer has an earth of its own. I purchased a chinese regulator/rectifier off trademe because I didn't want to wait for ali express shipping. This was the only part that gave me a serious ballache. I first started the bike and had between 6v and 19v depending on revs. This destroyed my brand new battery (which id had an ace bracket laser cut for). I did a HUGE amount of testing to figure out what was wrong. Was it my wiring? was it my coil modification? my AE Kitset scope helped here as it allowed me to check the waveform coming from the stator. I also tried this rectifier from a chinese scoot i have here.. that one is also SHIT so was starting to doubt myself. Ended up buying a good trailtech full-wave rectifier/regulator from Amazon and paying for express shipping. This unit is a BEAST, has adjustable voltage output and a few other cool features- plus it actually works. this was installed and tested(easily thanks to me installing plugs throughout the loom) and during a quiet tantrum about my broken battery realized it wasn't necessary after-all. Capacitors from Jaycar wired into a tidy battery pack was easy and the result is extremely impressive. The capacitors smooth out the rectified AC into a really beautifully smooth DC.. The scope shows its not perfect but its good enough that nothing is visible though the LED's and brightness is double what they are without the capacitors in place. And this is it now.. There't also been new carbs and intake reed assembly acquired plus new Ali Express rear shocks (factory ones would start bouncing and feel floaty). 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Pictures, cunt. Sort it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted December 26, 2018 Author Share Posted December 26, 2018 56 minutes ago, kyteler said: Pictures, cunt. Sort it out. Done 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakotom Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Man that looks great. Also taught me a thing about the floating stator amd making your own batteries. Good stuff man. I really enjoy how much you dive into these things and go 11/10s. Can’t wait to see where this ends up! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Nice. Looking spangly dood. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Head Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Epic! Nice work dude. Gonna do some kinda cut down front guard? I know heaps don't run them but I reckon they make the bike. Keen to see this thing in person! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 Thanks all i did cut down the front guard but the tire is too wide for it now. unfortunately tire selection was limited due to 18". Dumbbb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 sweet! looks good 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted December 29, 2018 Author Share Posted December 29, 2018 Thanks cletus Pulled off intake yesterday (after a quick ride) and started investigation into making my cr80 intake fit. She needs a bit of grinding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted December 29, 2018 Author Share Posted December 29, 2018 Ps, @Shakotom and anyone else here- happy to help if you want to upgrade your bikes wiring/charging system. It already looks like i'll be re-wiring @Geophys scoot lol. I did so much reading and trouble shooting on this stuff that i feel like an actual expert now Also @Truenotch i have your flywheel puller here still. Thanks for that- makes the job easy! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellicose Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Would you be interested in fixing / sorting my wiring? Mates missus is an auto sparky and was going to make a new loom for me but she spat out their first kid instead so would be few months before she can look at it. For a A50 so nothing complicated (but too complicated for this retarded old spray painter lol) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted December 29, 2018 Author Share Posted December 29, 2018 Pm ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Yeah this is brilliant. Thing does like 140kmph according to its last speedo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 10 hours ago, 64valiant said: Yeah this is brilliant. Thing does like 140kmph according to its last speedo. That was such a brain fuck. Most accurate Top speed that i believe is 102kph. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 This thing is still going, done 250km on it since doing wiring and stuff- everything still works! Nearly sold it- wife didn't want me to because i love riding it so much but I wanted the money for beetle etc etc. Glad i didnt!!! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Small capacity bikes are stupidly fun, can either idle everywhere on a big capacity sports bike, or race like fuck on a wee shitter... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post flyingbrick Posted April 22, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 22, 2019 Had another good ride on this over the weekend- super fun offroad on steep grassy/dirt tracks etc and approximately 150km covered between hamilton, raglan and kawhia. Only thing that's average is the four speed gearbox during steep climbs (EG, @64valiant driveway), Could probably try harder but it drops too far out of the power band when changing into second so you bog down and have to go back to first.. I hear the 5 and 6 speed boxes (mb50 and cr80) are a great thing and i need to try find one. The best thing about this bike is that its actually usable to cover relatively large distances and 90% of the time you aren't holding up traffic- EG between hamilton and raglan cars were the limiting factor both ways. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datlow Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 good too see your out and enjoying it! how are the ali shocks holding up/ are they too hard or soft etc? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 The shocks are perfect. Might not be 100% but far better than the old ones which used to do funny things on corners. Very happy with them!! Surprised really because it didnt kinda say what they were actually for. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Right so this thing is going to (im going optimistic here) get me from hamilton to waiuru for the cold kiwi. Leaving tomorrow morning. In preparation it got some tlc..most of them things that id never bothered to do (or check) .Some expensive t2 oil (iv had it running on chainsaw oil and outboard boat oil for some time lol), new trans fluid, chain lube, some front indicators, a pannier box thing (got a pair of them for 50$ from a bike wrecker) and the other side got a steel rack to hold my tent, sleeping bag and bed roll. Of course i left this until the last minute so took today off work, slept in, then finished things about an hr ago. Pics fully loaded tomorrow, should be a laugh. Also, got some ear plugs so that i can hear people talking once we arrive. Oh and look at my budget power supply for charging phone. Edit. Yes its ugly as fuck.. but functional. Thats all that matters, right???????!!??!?! 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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