Project Bikes

Yeah, I know. Haven't posted in a while.

So, what's happened with the bike? Well, so far I've done this:

1. Completely dismantled the rear caliper and rebuilt it.
2. De-rusted, sanded, primered and painted the rear caliper torsion bar and front fairing bracket
3. Used a steel wire brush to remove all of the rust from the exhaust headers.
4. Removed the rivets from the exhaust muffler shroud, and removed the shroud in preparation for the repacking of the muffler.
5. Completely

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So it has begun the day of birth is set to be sunday the 9th of aug little jubba the rg 250 frame is ment to be droped off to its new home to start its new life as jubba the bucket.
so the idea so far it to put a loncin 150 engine in to it but as this is my first project i dont no how i am going to get the mounts on for the new heart as the frame is alloy.if any1 can help with this it would but geatly aprecated.
so ive been saving for bike bits an gears and have ...

Well, after the debacle with the trademe feedback I was a bit worried. I needed to have the letter from the previous owner in order to re-register the bike - or else get the police to declare that they had no interest in the bike.

So of course I'm spewing. It looks like this bloke's not happy about his bike being sold by his missus and he may yet decide to not write the letter - or worse - declare the bike stolen, in which case I'd be rather fucked.

So, after a week ...

Bull dropped off a battery for me yesterday.

Oh - thanks to James Deuce too. Turns out it was one that he'd given to Bull.

Thanks heaps guys!

Battery was charged up last night. And it turns over the bike this morning, so at least the starter works...

dolphin13 (106 ) 20 Jul 2009sgotlieb was the buyer(#225869448) Thanks for taking my bike for $1. My Mrs sold this behind my back! F'n Bitch!

LOL. Really? Funny thing is, there's a lovely response to my feeback on trademe. Sounds like the guy got home to find out his wife has finally cleared out his garage after 12 years of nagging.

Let this be a lesson ...

Looks like my favourite tyre manufacture has the tyres I need, given it seems to have a slabbie gixxer rear end on it.

The Avon Roadrider looks the go.

I must start reading up on these tyres. I wonder if anyone else is using them?

edit. Checked out the Continental Sport Classic which looks kinda nice too:

http://www.conti-online.com/generato...kv1112_en.html

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This bike has no mirrors and they look to be damn hard (or extremely expensive) to replace.

So anyway Bull was around this arvo to look at the $1 wonder and he suggests I look into streetfightering the bike.

Now I'm not too keen on removing the front end cause I kinda like the Katana look, but there's another possibility.

The clip-ons are located with a bolt for each that are in the exact place that bar mounts can go on.




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It's got an 18 x 3.0 inch on the rear of this bike.

They're supposed to have a 17 incher. Must have a gixxer slabside rear wheel on it.

So I will need to find a 100/90-16 front and a 130/80-18 rear.

What bloody tyres are available in this combo?



Did I get ripped off with the bike? LOL. For a dollar, you can't expect perfection...