Project DR second edition

[kro]

The bike arrived from Waimauku yesterday, pretty much exactly as I expected it would be.... a bit of a roughy. I couldn't help myself, and turned the fuel on, and gave it one kick...no choke, and it fired instantly......MAGIC JOHNSON !!!!!.
It's actually hard to hear whether the top end is quiet, as the pipes drop directly off the head, and go down about 8 inches, and that's it........ she's LOUD !!!!. I think it may have had a GN zorst on it judging by the direction the pipes head..... straight down.

This will be one hell of a frankenstein bike when it's done, I will be transplanting and grafting all sorts of bits onto it from my extensive DR library. I will not be giving this bike the same level of attention that my first DR, it will be cleaned up just enough to sell, but will look so good, I should get good coin for it.

The bike is rustier than a KE71 Corolla that's been driven its whole life on Muriwai beach, so the first major course of action will be a frame transplant, as I suspect that if ridden off anything higher than a 2 foot drop off, she'd fold faster than superman on laundry day. I have two spare DR frames, so I'm good to go there.

The progress on this second edition will be slower than the first, but hopefully will be of interest to a few of you. Now that I am riding my mountain bike a 100k or so a week, I have a bit less time to devote to other things, but I will eventually finish her.

Tomorrow is motorcycle porn day, as i strip her naked... pics of that to follow, meanwhile, here are some snaps of it "as is"

[kro]

The rest of the pics.

Check out the horrendous rust and pitting on the upper fork stanchions, it's unbelievable. Mind you, Waimauku is a short hop from Muriwai, so I can guess where she's been ridden.

[Steam]

THat's the ugliest DR I have ever seen! I will be watching the project with interest, as I'll be in the market for just that kind of thing in a bit.

[paturoa]

......MAGIC JOHNSON !!!!!.

......... a frankenstein bike when it's done

...........rustier than a KE71 Corolla that's been driven its whole life on Muriwai beach,

........she'd fold faster than superman on laundry day

....is motorcycle porn day, as i strip her naked...

lol - bling for those

[kro]

THat's the ugliest DR I have ever seen! I will be watching the project with interest, as I'll be in the market for just that kind of thing in a bit.

I've had 4 whole DR's, and several partials/engines thru my garage in the last 8 months, and this is the worst of them all. The thing is, I relish the opportunity to make the best of these old dungers, and make them look good again.

As I said, I have a bare frame thats not full of rust, already stripped bare, so I will paint that up first, then it's just a case of stripping bits off this new crapper, tidying them up, and grafting them onto the good frame, it will be easier than Project DR was originally. My only concern really, are the forks, but I may get away with them, I will see.

[kro]

I've updated my little picture collection a bit to include the second bike.

http://kro.nzfortress.co.nz/filebrowser/

[kro]

Here is the frame I am going to put everything in/on. This frame is courtesy of a lovely chap named Neville, who resides in the Lud Valley here in Nelson. The original frame is pretty munted with rust.

[Motu]

Good luck! Like you I will be doing an XT revisited thread soon.Yesterday (sat) I drove down to Wanganui and picked up another motor and stuffed bike in bits as well....then back home.11 hours in the Pajero,don't tell me these things aren't useful.Now I have a shit load of unrelated XT spares.Reminds me of my younger days when I had a whole bedroom in the house full of BSA single parts....because there was no room in the double garage for them...or a car.

[kro]

I will be looking forward to seeing that Motu. Let me know when you start cranking up the work on it.

You are dedicated to drive 11hrs, my bike came from Auckland, but I got a mate to drop it at our Albany branch, and it came on a truck :P

Looking forward to seeing the Yammy.

[Motu]

I have a time limit,if I don't do something in the next few weeks the bike goes into storage and I won't be able to work on it until maybe this time next year.That's why I decided to go with another complete engine,the bike still goes into storage,but hopefully as a runner and not boxes of parts to mislay.I will still be able to get the bike out for rides.

[NordieBoy]

I may have mentioned this before but...

I've got a client who was working on a Triumph gearbox and got a couple of months work in Aus.
Rag gets thrown over g-box on bench.


6 years ago.

[kro]

I couldn't do that, I can't stand things unfinished.

[kro]

Whilst the the sun is sunning, I am getting all my painting done, it's primo painting weather. I painted the frame last night, and jammed it in the Skyline, to bake all day in the scorching heat. Cars are such cheap bake ovens, I love my Skyline very much. I chucked a couple of clear coats on it tonight, and have chucked it back in the bake oven.

I took the handlebars off, to get the top clamp off, and I think I can get a good portion of the surface rust off the stanchions.Pics of that later, but here is the painted frame, done in red, which in the light, and my stupid cheapo camera, looks pink.

[kro]

This aint much to see, just the bike with no top clamp. The stanchion closest to you I rubbed a bit of 400grit wet and dry over, and the rust virtually disappeared, so I may be able to buff these puppies up a bit. The fork seals leak like a sieve, but this is a budget project, so the next owner can do them.

[FA50 rider]

good luck m8