Kimjon's 50cc (then later ... 150cc and 400cc...then 1000cc) of awesomeness! Oh and a 2+1 wheeled machine...

[Kimjon]

@flyingbrick put this idea into my head. I kept putting it off, but the other day as prophesied my buell nearly didn't start. I'm having similar issues with the impala as well, and going into winter these vehicles will receive even less use.

So:

Mmmmmmm...ctek...mmmmmm

All that said and done, now all I have to do is unlock the rear compartment using the key, plug and play. Sweeeeeeet!!!

Doesn't get much easier than that eh...or does it? I've ordered a Bluetooth sender, that will send live data to my cellphone on my battery condition.

Same as this ^. If it works, I'll grab a few of them for my other vehicles with batteries. Fuck yeah, quite excited about it.

[Jusepy82]

Man , bloody good read. You must spend some time in the shed ! Thanks for the awsome thread

[Kimjon]

Finished charging the impala, now its working its magic on the buell.

I've got it set on motorcycle and reconditioning mode. Ctek recommend doing reconditioning mode at least once a year, so seems like a good idea to start off this way.

The leds show that the battery wasn't very charged, so its a good save.

[Kimjon]

Can't get enough of this thing. Its a miracle of technology, reviving old batteries back from the dead.

[Kimjon]

Go you good thing!!

[Kimjon]

Brake it down 

New rear brakes fitted. The old ones looked fine, but squealed so loudly. The new ones sorted that issue out.

[Kimjon]

Then the blue vespa got the same treatment. This too had ample meat on the pads, but the entire front end shuddered under braking.

This made a world of difference. Shudder is gone now, smooth as.

I did an aggressive chamfer on the edges of the pads, I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but the old pads had squared edges and so did the replacements. The chamfer makes sense to me, so I put it on just cause.

[Kimjon]

CRF250 needs new bottom end (big end bearing shit itself). But im open to ideas involving butchering in an entirely different motor.

[jessemk2]

Cr250 motor in that frame would be ace.

And it would make it worth shit loads

[Kimjon]

Simonini expansion chamber...yeah buddy!!

[cletus]

For blue or green? 

 

Will be interesting to see how it goes! Have you got some different carb jets? 

[Kimjon]

1 hour ago, cletus said:

For blue or green? 

 

Will be interesting to see how it goes! Have you got some different carb jets? 

Not sure yet, but probably the blue one?

Carb jets next on the list.

[Kimjon]

My new bike was purchased as a roller, with a blown engine. I paid fuck all for it, so all things considered im still very happy with the deal. However its obviously been raided for parts while the dude left it at the Honda shop. 

Its missing little bits like nuts off swing arm bolts, radiators, a few plastic bits, swing arm spacers, exhaust header, etc etc, probably an icecream container somewhere holding these bits, or maybe been used to fix someone else's bike? I can live with that.

The blocks that locate the rear axle into the swing arm were missing, so that was today's efforts:

So:

 

 

And tadah:

 

[Kimjon]

Milled slot to stop axle turning when tightening it.

Other than that, I've been very unproductive of late.

[Kimjon]

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[Kimjon]

 

Actually working really well.

[jessemk2]

Motor for crf?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/3198270309

Honda 2 strokes been selling for a premium 

[Kimjon]

23 hours ago, jessemk2 said:

Motor for crf?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/3198270309

Honda 2 strokes been selling for a premium 

Yeah been looking at that for months now. He's listed it about 5 or 6 times. 

 

Unfortunately the drive is on the wrong side. Not impossible to get around by flipping rear wheel and making a slide for the rear brake etc. But add radiators etc  etc and you'd be 1K deep. Starts getting  uneconomical to the point you can pick one up for $2500-$3500 all good to go. Though it would be cool.

[Kimjon]

 

[Kimjon]

Just mucking around in the shed on that new vespa.

Its one owner. He purchased it new in the UK, then brought it with him to nz. Ive got all the uk and nz importation paperwork. It failed getting registered in nz because of some rust in the bottom of the leg shield.

I just had a play with it, swapped a new battery into it and all the lights, indicators, horn work etc. I then turned it over with no fuel in the tank and that worked too. So looks like its worth putting some time into it.