Thread: 2-Stroketastic!!!

Kimjon - you the man


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Has she found that towel yet?

Okay, things are happening fast with this one.

Here's a before pic of what I was dealing with:

And after:


Chrome "bothy" forks


DDM Racing third bearing support




My milled aluminum rear fender:



Tank, with billet DDM cap all installed with my own lathe turned aluminium spacers.




That's it for now. I've ordered a few parts off ebay that I'm waiting on to complete this project with. I'm going to machine/weld up the handle bars this week while waiting on ebay parts to arrive. I'm pretty happy with the silver...I've been known to say unkind words about silver in the past...basically it does suck as a paint colour, but for this project I think it compliments the chrome nicely without being overly tacky? I'm going to put some blue parts in the mix too break it up a little... all will be explained later.

Kj

cool making honey out of dog shit

Needs a red racing stripe, because we all know red is faster

Originally Posted by stug

Needs a red racing stripe, because we all know red is faster

Red is faster Stu - it's a well known fact

Awesome I can see the pics now... Yes red is definitely faster and sexier but it's usually Italian and unreliable

your nuckin futs Batman...cant wait to see final result.

Originally Posted by hamsav

. Italians are ok ..... just that there seems to be a disproportional amount of penis fingered wankers owning them ..............I have several

@hamsav never said I didn't like them but they do have an affinity for the workshop.

Originally Posted by hamsav

yeah ya gotta wonder at the Ferrari add that sez " 11000kms , new clutch , new cam belts .... " , especially when you know that's an "engine out" job . Desmo valve gear has an undeserved rep for being expensive , hi maintenance ( having said that most workshops will gouge as much as they can on this one )..... old story the longer and closer you spent at the red line the more often you have to adjust clearances . I enjoy working on them as much as riding them

Fair comments. Never owned one only jap bikes so no real personal ownership experience except for riding a couple of 900SS Dukes. Great fun but I found them a little cramped for my large frame, strange they must have the foot pegs close to the seat. They did seem to spend a fair bit of time being fixed but as you say "Time on the Red Line = Garage Time"

Going back to two strokes Vespers and Lambretta seemed to go ok.

Had a cool idea for a kickstand. The originals had a large two sided loop. Hard to explain, but irrelevant as I didn't have one anyway. So I welded this up:



And lean it to the right and it automatically "springs" up under tension. The spring holds it out of the way...pretty trick!


It's the devil in the detail

Kj

MKII model:


I had to make it clear the part where the deck bolts on, as I forgot about the rubber isolator. Looks a bit more shapely now with a few more curves

just the thing for a crate day when its finished that will sort the men from the boys after a dozen big bottles

Originally Posted by kimjon

MKII model:


I had to make it clear the part where the deck bolts on, as I forgot about the rubber isolator. Looks a bit more shapely now with a few more curves

Looking good.....but did your arms shrink in the wash with that towel? Because those are some bloody short handle bars

I'm skipping a lot of the detail in this thread. Things take hours of time to make and involve countless steps in their production...but that would be tedious to read through. The motor alone has about 30 hours of my time for example.

But this is a Labour of love, I'm doing it because the inner child in me always wanted one like this...and now I'm doing something about it




I made these handle bars up. The original bars were fucked! They used OD28mm x 0.8mm wall aluminium - I guess to save weight, but they are very fragile. I managed I find some 3mm wall thickness aluminum, but in OD30mm. The bottom clamp is for a mountain bike and is ID32mm and the top bar clamp is a goped performance part with an ID of 28mm...problem!!! But after some head scratching I made a shim to increase the bottom of the pole to 32mm and I turned down the top of the pole to 28mm. Result!

Kj