Pup-Project: Honda CB125TD-C; Resto & Beyond...

[Teflon-Mike]

[WeirDesign]

I'd go with the meat lol


could you imagine 10-12 years of living on baked beans? jeez jet propulsion!
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WeirDesign Custom Airbrush Art - www.weirdesign.co.uk

[SnowTigeress]

[Teflon-Mike]

[SnowTigeress]

Finally ive finished 1 bike

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Ok i cant ride that one but at least it has colour now
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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[SnowTigeress]

Going through where I’m at and what I’ve blogged so far; I’ve come across a chunk load of pics of doing fiffy-faffy stuff, that all needed to be done in between the bigger jobs.
Not exiting, but this is where all the time goes, doing all the fiddly bits.
Well, it does if you have a slave driver like Tef, refusing to show you how to put stuff together unless the bits to do it with a right, first
The foot-pegs are a metal tube with a chunk of rubber over it, but there’s a knobble on the tube that a plate screws to on the end at the bottom. The screws had sheared in my foot-pegs so I had to drill them out
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Tef doesn’t have a vice in his kitchen surprisingly, so I clamped them to the kitchen work-top with a G-Clamp and a couple of bits of wood!
Then Tef made me file the stub of screw flat so the drill wouldn’t wander when we started drilling.
I HATE the sound of scraping metal!
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Once filed, I had to centre-punch an indent to start the drill off.
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Using a small drill bit first you have a easier time making it central before using the bigger drill bit to make a hole big enough to take an E-Z out, to unwind the remains of the screw.
The EZ-Out (or EZ-Shear, as Tef calls them) stud extractor, is basically a tapered self tapping screw, with a left hand thread. You screw it into the hole in the sheared stud you want to extract, anti-clock-wise, and it bites into the metal. At some point its bite is more than the force on the threads of the stud, and instead of the EZ-Shear screwing
further in, it starts turning the screw, and turning anti-clockwise, it comes out.
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That s the 'principle' Tef calls them the EZ-Shear because they will often, themselves, shear in the sheared stud, before they transmit enough force to start turning it. In my case, though it was the whole noggin that broke off! Which at least meant that the foot-pegs 'matched'!
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Tef got drastic. He ground some M6 nuts round, and with a bolt through the nut and the foot-peg to hold them together, we applied araldite!
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Once set, the pegs and plates could be painted and the rubbers cleaned up, ready to re-fit. If the rubbers are split or worn, new ones are often still available and not too expensive. these were in pretty good shape though, they were just a bit dirty and stained with rust. They were scrubbed in the sink with hot soapy water, then treated to a few coats of Back-to-Black.
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Rubber was wriggled back over foot-peg, and remade noggin, then the bottom plate lined up, and screwed in place. We needed a new screw, since the old ones had sheared and drilled, and a long one to go right through the foot-peg, not just into the noggin, given it was glued on. Tef reckons that the araldite probably stronger than the spot-weld that held it before, but he likes to be on the safe side!
Why SUCH a long bolt? Hmm Well the nobble on the bottom of the plate is known as a 'Hero-Blob', Idea is that if you lean the bike over a long way, these are the first thing to touch the floor, and their scraping on the road give you a clue your leaning over a bit far! and Tef has this idea that I might be a bit of a loony on this bike, and scrape them quite often! so he thought of using an extra long bolt and bending it out as an 'extended' hero-blob, and if I don't wear them away making sparks round corners, he can wind them in a little at a time as my confidence increases..... though he's not sure yet! But, put back together, the pegs could be re-attached to the brackets, and the frame, when we have the hangers back on, but that had to wait until the swing arm and suspension was sorted, as the swing arm pivot goes through the hanger plates.
Next up we have the Indicator and grab-rail mounting brackets that bolt to the ends of the frame rails. These also had sheared screws in them. So much the same thing.
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G-Clamp, kitchen work-top, two bits of wood, and more horrible metal scraping, flatting off the sheared stuff, so it could be drilled. Tef says that its very tempting to just dive in with the drill, and not do this, but that little bit of time to flat the stud and centre punch it properly, can really pay off, and help you get a nicely centred and straight hole, and often means studs drill out without damaging the threads in whatever they screw into, saving a lot of time trying to re-make or re-tap them.
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Like here, where as the hole is straight through, the screw actually wound out of the back of the hole when drilling.
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But, I re-tapped it to clean the threads up, anyway.
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These were then painted, ready for when we came to sort the indicators
Next, to be looked at was the Tail-Rail
This is a bit of extruded aluminium that goes all the way around the bottom of the tail cowling. Its a useful thing, its good and strong and securely bolted to the frame, and makes a convenient lifting point, as well as supporting and protecting the more fragile plastic.
But boy does it look ugly. Tef reckons it looks like some-one has bolted a bit of green-house to the bike as an after-thought, I just thought it looked like something that had fallen of a cheap fitted kitchen!
This is one of the 'Before' photo's of when the pup first arrived.
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The Tail-Rail starts at the back of the side-panel and runs back under the tail-cowling. It has a channel in it, filled with a bit of rubber trim, so its a confused mess, with the red of the tail-cowl only half meeting the side-panel, and the tail-rail, looking like an after thought, and just not 'blending' into the rest of the styling.
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On the Red bike, it just looks odd, but I am painting the bike Black, or 'nearly-black' and I am hoping to get transfers like the later stripes on Tef's Black-Bike.
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It looked a 'Bit' better, but with the stripes all the way along the tail-cowl above, then the silver of the tail rail making two stripes either side of the rubber trim strip, it still looks messy.
We thought, if we painted it black, it would remove some of the fussiness, and make it less obvious. Only question was whether to paint it gloss-black, like all the brackets, or the 'not-quite-black' of the body-work. Decided to go for the 'not-quite-black' body colour, Dark-Aubergene. Being dark, it should make the rail look less 'obvious' and less of an after thought, and hopefully make the tail look less fussy and cluttered.
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So I attacked it with the rotary wire to remove the surface coating, and give a key for primer, before applying paint.
Meanwhile.... offering it to the bike, Tef found a 'missed' sheared screw in one of the noggins that bolts it on... Oh dear. He didn't like my suggestion of just leaving the screw out, and I almost cried... I cant even look at the 'photo! He took a HACKSAW to my beautifully painted frame!
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This was apparently because whilst I was out, he started to drill it out, and had one of those incidents that make him call EZ-Out extractors, EZ-Shear extractors!
The only solution, was to cut the noggin off, and he assured me it was a lot more gentle doing it with a hack-saw than the angle grinder he'd have normally reached for! the rest of the process I couldn't even watch. It involved a very big arc welder, and I didn't want to go blind! But after cutting the noggin off my BEAUTIFUL frame, he then drilled through what remained. Then got a long M6 bolt, and roughly measured up the length of noggin he'd cut off against a couple of M6 nuts he wound on to the thread, spacing them with washers to get about the same length. He then unwound the nuts and washers, put the bolt through the hole in the frame plate he'd drilled, and wound the nuts and washers back down it to make an approximation of the noggin he'd cut off,
and welded them into place!
THEN he attached my BEAUTIFUL frame with the angle grinder! grinding the new noggin down smooth and tidy, before patching what remained of my {cry!} beautiful paint work!
But, when the Tail-Rail was offered back up, it fitted, was pretty secure, and looked quite good actually.... Against the gloss-black of the frame, you can actually see that it is actually quite purple.
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Ah, yes! the Swing arm and suspension are FINALLY IN! the bike is now rolling on BOTH wheels!
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And that's a close up, with the indicator brackets I mentioned earlier painted and bolted up. You'll notice that the mudguard and air-boxes are also on, after having been plastic welded where needed, scrubbed, scrubbed some more, and then treated with Back-to-Black, as were all the other black plastic bits like the indicators.
We missed getting any pictures of the swing arm and suspension actually being fitted, I'm afraid, trying not to chip any of the nice paint-work, we didn't have enough free hands, but its all in there and looking good, and you saw all the bits being sorted out, before hand.
You'll have to excuse the wheels. They are un-touched and just put on so we can roll it about. We still have the pair I started painting to see if we can do anything with, if not we'll try doing something with these. Tef's thinking polished or chrome, now we've seen how much 'black' there is, to lighten it up a bit.
This is getting frustrating, having a bike SO close to being built, but actually so far off. There's just so much more niggly little stuff to do, like all the wrigglies.
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So, asking whether i could go for a test ride.
I was fed up on not having a bike with the buses from Nuneaton to Leicester not running after 6:30pm.
Tef said 'No', because he's mean and wont buy me any exhausts or sort my carburettors!
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But, he was close to finishing his project bike, the Corporal and said I could ride that instead. so he went and tidied up the electrics that were hanging out of the head-lamp, and dusted off the un-painted body-work, he was about to start tackling, and sent me off to get some insurance quotes. And a day later, I was heading out on the road!
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The bike had been taxed and MOT'd when Tef got it, it just didn't work! But he'd completely rebuilt it, pretty much like the pup, reconditioning the forks and servicing the suspension and brakes, replacing the head-race bearings and 'stuff'.
It rode REALLY nicely and it was great to be back in the saddle. This was SO much better than my old Cruiser-Thing, though the first ride, was disappointing in proving it wasn't very fast, and it took a week of fiddling with carburettors and exhaust and stuff, getting her 'set-up', but it now does 60! And I can now
tell whether a bike is running rich or lean by looking at its spark-plugs, and more, adjusting the carburettor to correct it!
Anyway, we've started on 'the wrigglies'. We ordered a full set of LED lights and a flasher unit, but only three indicator bulbs fitted and the tail lamp bulb was the wrong colour, and we're waiting for the replacements.Meanwhile, I'm also waiting for my Birthday present to arrive, a pair of Oxford Heated 'Sport-Grips', and my Christmas present off Tef, a pair of Oxford Handl-bar muffs, (though they'll probably be fitted straight on the Corporal. Of course, it HAD to be all that snow that turned up last week, when we were doing all the test riding!). Oh, & Tef bought a power adaptor for my Sat-Nav and 'phone, and has been fiddling around putting the GPS in a freezer bag, clipping it in its bracket then trying to work it!
But he wants to get the 'standard' electrics sorted out and working properly, before we starts cutting into the loom for the alarm and accessories and stuff, and he's found a problem with the LED dash-lights, so we need to modify the indicator wiring to make the tell-tale on the clocks work. We have fitted up all the indicators and switches though, and I have made up extra wires for the indicators so that they have a good 'earth' and stuff'. But I think I'll save that for another instalment, when we have more of it working properly.
Meanwhile, here's what the 'Wolf-Clocks' look like, now they are finished, and have white LED bulbs in them.
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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[SnowTigeress]

BOY! valentines already!

You May remember Tef the ever romantic chat up line” If you cant pass a test after Three CBT`s you have no business being on a bike”

So what did I get for valentines? Chocolates? Roses? A nice meal? Weekend away? OF COURSE NOT, Romeo Tef took me to Maplins in Leicester, to buy some wire, resisters and installations tape!

Anyway, it’s been far to long since I last updated this, but then Christmas got in the way and we have been doing wigglies. Well Tef has. I’ve done some soldiering. And there’s not been a lot to have shown you. Last time I had just got my led bulbs (the Wrong Ones), that was to reduce the power consumption, so that I could have all my TOYS.

These are an immobiliser/alarm, because I’m pissed off with my bikes being nicked. More powerful Headlamp, so I can see where I’m going on the dark country roads. My Sat-Nav, so I don’t have to follow the No.48 bus everywhere. And my heated Grips, so my little Flanges, sorry, fingers (been watching to much "Bones"), don’t get cold.

The first thing to tackle was the alarm. The 125 Super-Dream, being a 'naked' motorcycle, of course does not make this easy. There aren't many places to hide all the bits! And for obvious reasons, I don't want to tell you too much, about the alarm. But what I will say, is by the time Tef had finished with it, its no-where near standard!

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Note the snappy sandwich tub, an integral security device! Here you see Tef has stripped ALL the wiring loom on the bike, and has stripped the alarm down for some of his clever modifications!

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This is under the seat around the battery compartment. To accomodate all my toys, Tef decided I needed a big fuse box. Originally it had ONE fuse. Halfords did a neat little fuse box that held four fuses, but no, Tef insisted on the six fuse one. And found a use for ALL of them! But of course it wouldn't fit where the old fuse holder had been, and he took off all my painstakingly painted brackets for the fuse holder, the starter solenoid and the flasher relay, and replaced it all with a horrible bit of old car number-plate! It was a front one off his Range-Rover... apparently he brakes quite a few, off-roading, and it was a conveniently flat and stiff bit of Perspex! Note the multimeter on op of the battery. Tef used this to trace all the wires and find out what went to what, and to fathom all the functions of the alarm. He also used an old indicator lamp. He spent so much time mucking about testing electrical 'stuff' he even made up a special wire and BOLTED the multi-meter to the bike!

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Worth mentioning the flasher unit.... this is the one we took off, to find out why it didn't work.

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The can full of rusty water it was sitting in wouldn't have helped! The new electronic flasher is square and has a tab to bolt it to something flat, so that sits underneath the bit of old number-plate, now.

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The starter solenoid was in better shape, and worked well after Tef stripped it down and made me clean all the contacts inside, sprayed everything with WD40, then put it back together sealing it with Silicone. He filed a round hole in the old number-plate for this to sit in.

Meanwhile, I did some soldering, and sorted out some extra earth wires. I may have mentioned this, but I made up a little harness with four ring terminals on it, so that the ignition coils had a wire going to each mounting bolt, and the earth wire in the wiring loom, AND one of the engine bolts on the frame!

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Tef despises crimp-on electrical connectors. Some-one on one of the Forums had an argument with him about how good a crimped connector can be, and he replied, he knew exactly how strong they could be, he had to get them approved for air-worthiness.... didn't mean he'd trust one from Halfords! So he's made me solder every-bludy thing!

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We did this a while ago, before the engine went back in & the back end went on. But had to do much the same for the indicators.

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Which after cleaning and scrubbing, and back-to-blacking, I piped silicone into to replace the worn out seals.

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Then once Tef had worked out where all the wires needed to go for the alarm.... he got me to solder them all!

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I still hate soldering female spade connectors on... I always manage to fill them with solder, but I'm getting better, even though I did drop molten lead on my foot!

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Here Tef has got me soldering the diodes that make the tell-tale lamp on the dash for the indicators work.

Fitting the Led Indicator bulbs, we had discovered a this problem, but I had been riding the corporal, which had decided to conk-out in the middle of the road. So I rolled it into the bus lane while I looked it over, but a bus wasn’t happy when he found me in his lane, and sounded his horn. When I got back to Tef's I asked him why bikes didn’t have hazard warning lamps like cars. He told me, some bikes do have them. So I asked him if I could have them on mine, wondering if it was possible. It was only a question. But when Tef's ex asked a question like that, whether it was possible or not, it meant she expected it doing....so Tef did!

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And its those diodes that also let me have hazard warning lamps. Lamps which needed a switch. A big switch. A big red switch. A big red LIGHTY UPPY switch!

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Which needed some-where I could press it. The little cover over the handle-bar clamps looked promising, so Tef, got out some plasticine. This was to put roughly where we thought the switch might go inside, to see, when it was pressed on, if there was space there. If there wasn't, plasticine would get squashed.

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There was Pressing the cover on left just a little dint in the block of plasticine, but as that was square and a bit bigger than the switch, which was round, we reckoned it would be OK. This also looked like a good place for the alarm warning LED, which we decided to put the other side of the cover.

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So we measured up the bezel, before doing some drilling!

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So far so good. But testing the alarm, Tef observed a flaw. The alarm immobilises the ignition, but nothing tells you that you can start the engine. He imagined me flattening the battery cranking the starter, before phoning him moaning the bike wouldn't start, all for the want of not realising I hadn't turned the immobiliser off. Like I would EVER do such a thing! Pah, men! They think us women are all STOOOPID!

But it was that, and the fact that we couldn't get the hazard warning lamp switch to light up, because it had a 2.2v LED in it, not a 12v bulb, that sent Tef back to the multi-meter! Much swearing later, lead us to the Valentines day visit to Maplins for resistors and LED's, and insulation tape!

Tef had, after much muggering about, tidied up a lot of the spaghetti around the battery and fuse box, and sorted out how to get another LED to light up, IF the ignition was immobilised.

Meanwhile, lots of new shiny bits had arrived!

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A critical component was the new lock-set, which included a new ignition barel, as well as seat and steering lock and a new petrol cap.

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My Oxford heated handlebar grips and over-muffs had arrived just before Christmas, but a new pair of handlebars were needed before we could organise the wiring and glue them on.

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The new bars are chrome, and a little wider in the middle than the originals, but give more space for all the stuff to go on them!

The Wiring for the Oxford grips was added, and the bracket for the heat control switch painted, and after lots more soldering and making another hole for the immobilisers 'safe' LED, it's all looking rather good.... and I have a button. a big button, a big red button. a big red LIGHTY UP button!

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That makes hazard warning lamps work. Good, isn't it?

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A Blue Flashing LED warns that the alarm is activated, and thanks to Tef's fiddling, its pretty sensitive too.

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A Red LED tells me that the immobiliser is still active, and I can't start the engine.

So, the alarm and immobiliser are all now wired in and working like they should. THIS bike isn’t going ANYWHERE without me knowing about it! And the keys are going to be under my pillow so Tef's 12 year old daughter cant go joy-riding on it while I’m asleep!

Doesn't seem a lot for nearly two months work, but, most of the modifications to this bike are electrical, and Tef has virtually completely re-wired the bike, and had to design new circuits from scratch for me, while we spent lots of time mucking around putting bits of bodywork on and off looking for places to fit stuff, make brackets and mounts, and make it all tidy.

Its still not 'quite' there, we need a water-proof cigarette lighter socket for the SAT nav... we discovered it wont work off the universal charger Tef was going to hard wire into the electrics, it would only charge! So has to run off the proper Garmin cigarette socket charger! The heated grips are more easily sorted though, they just need a connector changing on the wire. Tef says I have to solder it! And we still have to sort the head-lamp upgrade to H4 Halogen Bulb...

It’s been a pain staking job for Tef, but he managed to do it, he’s customized the wiring loom to fit all the accessories wires into it. And I STILL really hate wigglies!

I don't want to tell you what the project spend is up to now, but Tef's been adding the prices of all the bits to arrive in the last week, and its the wrong side of £1,600, of which all this elec-trickery accounts for 'about' £300. Over half of that was the heated grips and the LED Light-bulbs. The rest was on LOTS and LOTS of connectors, resistors, diodes, LED's and other assorted components.

But this months bargain was found! A £15 Clutch switch, obtain from NOS off ebay for £5!

Handlebars had been being awkward. Only place that listed bars for the 125 Super-Dream, priced them at £46, in black. Tef reckoned that they were the same as the CB250RS, which we found listed most cheaply for £35, but couldn't confirm the dimensions. Searching the catalogues and listings, took ages, as the 125 Super-Dream has very low bars. But in the end we found an e-bay supplier who measured up an actual pair of bars for us and we compared with Super-Dream bars, and for £25, were just about perfect. About half an inch wider at the clamps, they have just that bit more room for the brake reservoir to clear the clocks, and more room for the clutter of switches and stuff we've added, while the extra 3/4 of an inch at the grips is just like a bar end weight or could be sawn off.

So we seem to be getting some-where, but we're still a long way off finishing. There's loads of stuff to go over and check through, tightening and adjusting stuff, and there's a fair bit more on the list needed to get the bike close to an MOT, including the most expensive bit, new exhausts, and we're waiting for the weather to improve before spraying the tank and plastics, so probably not much more to update you with for a while, BUT the project is still progressing.... slowly!
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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[Damon]

As always a thoroughly good read It's great to see you two getting stuck again with the project.

[Damon]

As always a thoroughly good read It's great to see you two getting stuck again with the project.

[N cee thirty]

lmao you old romantic mike

i'll read though it when my eyes wok again haha


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'00 Aprilia RS50 > '92 Honda CG > '99 Yamaha Fazer > '91 Yamaha RXS > '79 Suzuki X5 > 01' Honda Cg > 07' Honda Cg > 82' Kawasaki Z200 > suzuki gsxr 400 gk73a > honda vfr 400 NC30 Mod 2 Passed 09/06/2011

Jewlio Iglesias wrote: I actually did vote BNP once

[SnowTigeress]

ok ive been busy doing i havent a clue lately doing theory test questions and hazards to try and get this damn test done and dusted.......

But the project is still been going on and ive just brought all the bits i now need apart from the mirrors and carbs so this project will hopefully be finished by the next month or so..............

alot of the work still been wiring which Tef has been doing as i hate wigglies......... i did the soldering he just been making the custom wiring loom to mke all my gagets work............I like my Gagets:D

Ill let Tef explain this section of the build............

BTW Tef Ive just seen something else........

Can I have ?

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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[Teflon-Mike]

OK, tackling the wiring!
She wanted:
>Heated Grips
>Uprated Headlamp
>Alarm System
>GPS
>Rocket Launchers
>Nitrouse Oxide Injection
>LCD Numberplate / Message board
She GOT:
>Heated Grips
>Uprated Headlamp
>Alarm System
>GPS / Accessory Socket
>Phone Charger
>LED bulbs
>Hazard Warning Lamps
The LED everything was simply becouse with calculated power consumption of the 'toys' she wanted, we needed to lower the load somewhere.
First hurdle came with the indicator 'tell tale' which proved to use a cleaver bit of circuitry, that had the dash bulb connected accross the left and right indicators, so that whichever side was flashing, the tell take earthed through the 'off' side.
This didn't work very well with an LED bulb.... it flashed for one way, but not the other, necessitating a bit of adaptation & the inclusion of a couple of Diodes to make it work properly.
That, prompted the Hazard warning lamps, which with a switch, and the diodes for the tell tale, could be made to flash all the indicators similteniousely..... but the light up switch, brought a problem being an LED needing a resistor to make it work off 12v...
This prompted some MORE work, fitting the LED for the alarm, and with diodes and LED's floating around, and 'doing the alarm', I discovered that there was nothing to actually tell you that the imobiliser was in operation, after de activating the alarm....
I envissaged numerouse phone calls for me to come effect 'recovery' for a flattened battery, if I didn't do something about this anomoly..... so with another diode, and another resistor and another LED..... constructed a little imobiliser warning circuit, so a big red LED signals 'Dont Flatten the Battery, Engine Wont start'.
A 'universal' charger was bought at ASDA for £4 to power the GPS, and I promptly took it to pieces, to 'hard wire' into the loom....
Fortunately, JUST before we did, I had the brain wave to 'just try it' on the GPS.... so plugged it into the car..... it DID do what it said on the box..... it CHARGED the Garmin! Which lit up with its little 'Charging' display.... it did NOT power up so that the GPS so it would tell us where to go!
THIS is how she got a 'phone charger' instead of a rocket launcher!
Different end plugged in, her 'spare' phone can live in the oddment compartment under the seat, so that when she's forgotten what the big red LED next to the ignition barrel does....... she can call me to tell me she has a flat battery!
But it didn't solve the problem of the GPS charger.
Ebay was scoured and a vendor offering a 'Car Charger' for a Garmin Nuvi contacted, and expressely ASKED, "Will this actually POWER the GPS so it gives directions, when plugged in, as WELL as charge it?"
He assured us it would, so for £2.99 post free, it was ordered, and arrived the next day........
Except I didn't think that the cord would be long enough....... it had a three pin plug on it, not a fag lighter one!
Vendor apologised profucely, blamed his polish imigrant packing staff, and suggested I keep the three pin plug adaptor, as I 'might find a use for it'..... I know I get confused easily, its premature senile dementure... but I have yet to get lost in my own home.......
But hey, sent us the gizmo we needed by return, and when it arrived, tested good.......
But in the mean time, we had pondered an accessory socket so she could plug it in, rather than having it hard wired.
The Oxford grips went on OK, and the only thing with them, was finding where and how to route the wires, and place the control box.
Big problem has been sorting a mounting to take the starter solenoid, the flasher unit, and the accessory fuse box and grips controller, all in the wedge shaped space between the back of the mudguard and the air boxes.
This is a little bike, and a naked one, so there's not MUCH space to squeeze everything and keep it all out of sight, and out of the weather!
And its all very easy to put together and get working making twist connectiosn everywhere.... tidying it all up and making brackets and permenant homes and connections is rather more time consuming, especially when you have to keep test fitting tank and bodywork to make sure it all fits, and re arrange the living room furnature in order to swing teh steering from lock to lock to make sure none of the wires or widgets are fouling!
so its all been rather time consuming, fiddly, faffing and entirely un photogenic..... and apparently going no where in a hurry, or re doing stuff that was supposedly already done.... only without propper connections, or mountings or anything!
BUT its getting there, and I THINK we are getting 'close' to completion here.....
While I have been tackling the circuits, she has been soldering on the connectors where I told her, and splicing wires together, so she HAS been doing some of the work, and she has a better idea of electrics now than she did, though she still don't like them!
But between times, she has been sorting out the bits and pieces, left on teh list of stuff to buy.
She announced yesterday, that the build total is still 'Under' £2K.... by how many pence I dare not ask!
But exhausts have been bought and arrived, and she has put in a big order with Dave silver spares for a load of ods and sods that includes new control cables, tacho and speedo cable, and new sproket nuts, bolts and bushes, for when the wheels come back from the powder coaters they were dropped off at on Thursday.
So she is building you up with anticipation for the 'final push' to completion......
The clock is ticking on the count down to the first anniversary of her acquiring this bike...
Will it have an MOT and be on the road in 'under' a year or wont it!?
>Reciept of purchase is Dated 31/05/10.
>NOTHING in the engine has been 'touched'
>Her Carburettors are in pieces
>One of her carburettor rubbers is split
>New needles & jets are an 'obsolete' part in the Honda catalogues
>New carburettor rubbers are an 'obsolete' part in the Honda catalogue
Place your bets gentleman, please!
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My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?'

[SnowTigeress]

OK, well, things are moving along nicely..... I passed my THEORY TEST today!
So, got some inspiration to get on and get this bike 'finished' so I can do the riding bits of getting my licence!
Lots of parcels have been arriving at Maison Tef lately, containing lots of loverly new 'shiney bits'.

First to arrive made me a bit exhausted though.....

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Meanwhile, Tef found a place to do some powder coating, and my wheels and luggage rack are away having a coat of 'glitter; silver.... should have been 'done' on Tuesday, but Tef gave them some handlebars to do as well, and their machine broke, so they aren't done and have been giving us excuses all week!

But a big box of bits arrived from Dave Silver Spares!
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New Air Filters, the cush drive bushes, new sproket bolts and nuts, so when the wheels DO finally come back from the coaters, I can build them all up, with the new bearings and seals and nice new tyres I got RIGHT at the very beginning!
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A complete set of cables was also included. New Clutch, and throttle cables, as well as the Speedo and Rev Counter Drive for my loverly custom 'clocks'!

These also arrived:
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Nice Sidi boots. won on e bay I love them. Tef's less convinced. He reckons I paid to much for them, and they dont fit. Thick Ankles INDEED!?! He'll be saying my bum looks big in my leathers next! They just need 'breaking in'! Tef muttered something about them being plastic, and wandered off shaking his head. MEN, they just DONT understand women's shoes!

And lastly, Do you think my bum will look big on this?
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New seat cover arrived...So getting on with some work.....

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Tef cought me trying to pull the staples that held the old seat cover on with a screwdriver. He wasn't happy. He has a 'thing' about people misusing screwdrivers. And he told me to simply 'cut' the old cover off with a scalpel.
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Yes, I can see, all I have to do is lift it away tef!
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Men... stand around offering 'helpful' advice taking awful photo's when a girls getting some work done!
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For some reason the seat foam was wrapped in cling film. So THAT all had to come off.
Then I could wash the foam in the bath.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Strip%20Down/104_0316.jpg
Then while that soaked, go back to getting the staples out of the seat base.
"If I cant use a screwdriver, what should I use then?!" I asked Tef.
"This" He said, handing me........ A SCREWDRIVER!
"That's a Screwdriver!" I said.... helpfully!
"Ah!" He replied...."Well! It WAS a Screwdriver. NOW its a 'patent pokie thing' version four! Some-One rounded it off using it to pry staples out of stuff!"
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Strip%20Down/104_0319.jpg
So, once I had pulled them out a bit with the 'No Longer a Screw-Driver, patent Pokie thing Version 4.... I yanked them all the way out with a pair of pliers.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Strip%20Down/104_0321.jpg
And apart from scrubbing the seat base, once de stapled, THAT is as far as I have got on that job.
The seat foam, is infromt of the fire in the living room.
You know, after a thorough soaking in the bath, and a rince with fabric softener ('Comfort' for preference!)....
seat Bases take RATHER a long time to dry out.....
HINT: They take even LONGER to 'Dry' if you put them outside on a clothes airer....... in March..... when it rains a lot!
So, other works. Finishing the back suspension.
This has been hanging around far too long. After we got all the bushes sorted out, we 'loosely' bolted it all up. BUT, I was stressing trying to find all the bolts
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And you have to put the brake pedal assembly together before you can put the right hand footpeg hanger on, because thats held in place with the swing arm bolt!
So, with a bottle of Thread Lock found, Tef tought me how to use a Torque Wrench to tighten it all up and lock it all in place.
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Applying Thread-Lock
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Inserting Bolts
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Torque Setting them.
Job Done....... "Tef, where does this spring go?"
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"Looks like the brake pedal return spring....... that goes.... behind the Right hand Foot-Rest hanger... oh! ####!"
So moving quickly on to what else has been done........
Getting close to finishing, Tef's been trying to sort out the Decals to go on both his bike and 'The Pup'.
i wanted a full 'custom' paint job, but tight-wad-tef, wouldn't let me have a nice arbrush mural job, and tried fobbing me off with the clock fascias!
Tef Started by doing some 'rubbings' on tracing paper of the 'Original' Graphics on som eof the other bikes.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/plastics%20and%20tank/imag1758.jpg
'The Pup' had been roughly repainted before we aquired him, so this could have been a bit of a 'problem'.
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These are the rubbings of the tank of 'the Corporal', Tef's Red '86 Super Dream, which is like mine should have looked, but the Decals are a bit 'boring'.
The ones on his 1987 bike, 'The Black One' we both thought looked a bit more inspiring
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/plastics%20and%20tank/imag1763.jpg
He made Rubbings of both Sets though, to see what could be done.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/plastics%20and%20tank/imag1763.jpg
So with outlines of the original decals, Tef did some pixel-picking to see what could be done with them.
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Tef Did this for his bike. Basically the original design for the later bikes, but with 'Super Dream' added under the side panel flashes, instead of 'Deluxe'. We did a lot of messing around to see what might suite on my bike, but decided to do 'something' based on the standard graphics..ish.
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This was an early 'idea' but I preffered this one....
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And ultimately, Tef worked it into a full Decal pack like this
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Decals/DecalsforPUPV01.gif
Which has been sent to Corf, with the original rubbings, to see if he can make them for us! (Fingers Crossed)

And for the 'Brave' Spent to date= £1,990.00!
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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[SnowTigeress]

Some people might have remembered having trouble sorting my wheels out.

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Trying to paint them by hand,but they looked rubbish
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Well in the end i took some peoples advice and sent them away for blasting and powder coating,well took them a week to sort Tef`s handlebars that were sent with them,but got them back yesterday.Dont they look sparkly?

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They just need to be sanded inside the back wheel where the brake goes...so it doesnt get hot and melt inside there.
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Put them next to the ones thats on The PUP to show comparison
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OH!very pretty if i do say so myself.
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Now to get these tyres on.............GOD im so tired today,making sure we have the arrows on the tyres facing the right way,Tef marks the Wheel aswell.
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Lining the tyre on the wheel put one end in,guard the rims with rims protectors and use the tyre iron to get the last little bit on.
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Now for the innertube,taking the valve out you can blow throw the tube,so it unsticks and easier to put round the wheel.
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Line the valve up with the hole in the wheel but dont put it through the hole yet.
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then start tucking it in,making sure its straight.
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One its all in wiggle it inside the wheel,making sure its inside the tyre,then put the valve through the hole,Tef told me not to screw the valve clamp all the way down,so that there was some play so that it doesnt rip the valve stem out of the tube.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/wheels/imag1872.jpg
Then by standing on the tyre you can get most of the other side of the tyre on.
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Then with the rim protectors and the tyre iron,you can get the last bit of the tyre on.
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while rolling the wheel and tapping it round you can make sure the tyres sitting correctly.
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Put the valve back in and then its ready for some air.
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Tef said to put more air in the tyre than needed so that the tyre expands and we know its firmy in place.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/wheels/imag1875.jpg
Then take the air out till its at the right pir for your wheels,then repeat again for the other wheel.
We had taken the old bearings and bushes out the wheels,they were a right pigs ear to get out too,so now that the wheels all looking beautiful it was time to hammer them ........lol ,the bushes back in to the wheels i mean not the wheels themselves.( had this image then if i didnt put that right of people hammering the wheels and the nice new paint work..........EKKKKKKKKK).
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Tef used a small hammer to get the bushes in place square.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/wheels/imag1878.jpg
Then using a rubber hammer,he could tap them down into place,then using the tyre iron on the rubber bushes all the way home(Sorry missed taking that picture).
We made sure that the spocket was going to line up before repeat it for the other three.

Time to do the bearings

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Hammer the bearing in squarely untill its all the way in
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put a load of grease through the centre and grease the spacer
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put the other bearing in on the other side,and using a drift send them all the way home
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then time for the dust seal
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part from the rear wheel ended up with a puncher
and i cant find the spacer for the front wheel so putting them on the pup will have to wait a while
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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[SnowTigeress]

Infuriating! The Pup is so NEARLY finished.............

Well finally managed to find the spacer and mend the puncter in the back wheel tube and they are now fitted

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/wheels/104_0358.jpg
Bearings ready to be bashed into the front wheel.
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Bashing in the bearings
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BIG hammer! I like BIG hammer!
And a socket! To knock the bearing up against its seat
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Then the seal fitted
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Other side.... grease the elusive spacer...
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Fit into hub
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Bash in next bearing
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Drive it home
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Pop the Speedo drive washer in (Which we forgot! TEF!!!) And press in the seal.
Then tackle the brake disk
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Plenty of coppa slip on the flange to stop it corroding to the hub.
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Then BASH it on! I love jobs with HAMMERS! Call me Thor!
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Then Add bolts
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More coppa slip so they don’t corrode inside the hub either..... BUT....
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When they come out the other side.....
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You have to clean off ALL the coppa slip from the threads, so that the thread lock on the nuts will 'take'.
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Then they can be torqued up.
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And the hub cover fitted
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And THEN
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Wheel can be fitted to bike!
AND the front brake tackled!
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Been sat around for ages that has, NOW we could fit the Goodridge hose, fill with fluid and bleed through..... But first I had to bolt the calliper onto the fork properly..... Back out with the coppa-slip and loctite!
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At Tefs Insistence I include this pic... For all of you that insist that women on here it’s TOGTFO! BOYS! The LOT of you!
So, with the wheels on, the next job was to add my Iris, Extreme H-D X-Ring chain & sprockets
I think that this is tefs way of hinging on to me! 'Chaining me' to him! I met him because I was having trouble with my old Chinese Cruiser Thing and the chain coming off the whole time, and running out of adjustment, and he came over to look at it, and help me get a new one! Think he got more than he bargained for! Anyway!
This is the standard 'plain' chain on the Corporal.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imag1987.jpg
And this is the Extreme HD X-Ring on the Pup...
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/wheels/imag1986.jpg
It’s rather a lot wider, and those plates are a heck of a lot thicker as well!
Bit of luck this shouldn't need such frequent adjustment and OUGHT to last a heck of a long time!
Anyhow, other 'fettling'.
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Ends of the handlebars were trimmed to length
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/clocks%20and%20switches/104_0415.jpg
Grips removed, so that they could be adjusted and set up, and the twist grip 'lubed' to run on the handlebar.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/clocks%20and%20switches/104_0412.jpg
And then my MX hand guards could be fitted up!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/the%20pup/104_0357.jpg
When the winters here they will keep the muffs open and also protect the levers (Already scraped one down the side of the house.... oops!)
Then bike was wheeled outside, because we were CLOSE to being able to start it.... all I needed was some exhausts and carburettors.....
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/the%20pup/imag1910.jpg
Needed to sort the 'problem' with the engine bars fouling the exhausts we discovered when the exhausts first arrived, first though. This was the solution!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag1906.jpg
Tef welded a bit of 2" tube (Cut from a Range Rover exhaust! He reckons it’s as thick as scaffold pole, near enough!) Top the front engine mounting plate. He also added two exhaust U-Clamps, as handy security chain attachment points!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag1917.jpg
Drilled, to space the engine bars away from the exhaust, then Tef's rather 'agricultural' welding smoothed off with a bit of filler, before painting!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag1921.jpg
Then it could be refitted to the bike, and I could go over all the engine mounting bolts, making sure they were proper tight and loctited!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag1922.jpg
Before hanging the crash bars in place, and fitting up the exhausts
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag1923.jpg
Tef told me this was the magic 'restrictor washer'.... Sorry Tef, read too many of your posts to be 'got' by that old joke! Bludy exhaust gasket, didn't want to stay in there though!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag1924.jpg
Got it in in the end though, & fitted up with the collets.
Then I could bolt the crash bars up at the bottom.
Meanwhile we have stretched the new seat cover over the foam.... when it eventually dried out! Bludy stuff!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag1967.jpg
More Skew, because it’s not latched down, but the cover needs re stretching to get it lining up right! Didn't get pics because between two of us we didn't have enough hands to stretch AND pin, let alone work a camera too!
But we were JUST about ready to fit carburettors, and see if she ran!
I think that the 'will He run' episode deserves its own post... so for now....
A few more bits of plastic have had paint...
Last mention of the mudguard was me not managing to plastic weld up the hole I put in it
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/plastics%20and%20tank/imag1790.jpg
Sanding it down.... Tef to the rescue, but he still made me scrape out all the paint on the edges!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/plastics%20and%20tank/104_0225.jpg
Then Primered
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/plastics%20and%20tank/imag1904.jpg
And Painted!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/plastics%20and%20tank/imag1966.jpg
It’s NOT BLACK!
Its Dark aubergine!
Same as the tail cowling, also finally painted!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/plastics%20and%20tank/imag1964.jpg
So in the NEXT thrilling instalment, I'll tell you ALL about the 'start up'.... or NEEEEEE...... NEEEEEEEEEE........ NEEEEEEEEE "Why ent this thing WORKING!!!!!" Neeeeee. nuuuuuuuu...... nugh uh ug u duff..... "Any one got some jump leads?"
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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[SnowTigeress]

Now the pup is running sweet just a matter of seeing if it does more than 3mph lol

Tell you more in a bit just had to share that part lol
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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[badas]

videos please

[SnowTigeress]

[SnowTigeress]

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/the%20pup/thepup.jpg


A video as promised
Click the Picture to watch video

Just the Tank to be painted now and then to get it MOTed and Taxed
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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[GPZman]

What an awsome read well done both

[N cee thirty]

lol

electric starts are fo pussays!

me and chris rebuilt my cg and had to kick it over non stop for 20 mins,didn't need to go the gym that day
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'00 Aprilia RS50 > '92 Honda CG > '99 Yamaha Fazer > '91 Yamaha RXS > '79 Suzuki X5 > 01' Honda Cg > 07' Honda Cg > 82' Kawasaki Z200 > suzuki gsxr 400 gk73a > honda vfr 400 NC30 Mod 2 Passed 09/06/2011

Jewlio Iglesias wrote: I actually did vote BNP once

[Damon]

Looking great! That poor poor starter motor

[Teflon-Mike]

[blurredman]

Do they not have kick-start at all then?

Cool vid though. You sound as knowledgable as you portray.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S.
Current: 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (bored to 295cc) - 38k, 1990 MZ ETZ251 - 49k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k.

[SnowTigeress]