Recent content by flon3y

After a long hiatus I think it's time to resurrect this project. I acquired a BMW R65 last summer that has taken over as the primary fair weather transportation. As such I think it's time to dig into the Yamaha to make it a little more fun. My goal isn't to recreate the bike, but to make an...

Not a lot of updates, just lots of sunny riding lately! Passed 6500 miles on the odo today, meaning I've put over 4k on it over the past year since I started riding it.

I look forward to seeing yours, I haven't seen many builds of these bikes mostly restorations. Make sure to check out yamahaenduro.com. I ended up with a 14/43 final drive as it is what I could find available but I don't think I'd go a lot taller as I put run up and down Seattle's hills with...

No resistors but the lighting coil doesn't provide any extra power to even charge the battery right now. I also updated the electric controls and added a kill switch.

I appreciate the input, there's still a bit of time before I'd get new rubber anyway. Mounted up the turn signals, but the magneto isn't putting out enough juice to power them with the headlights on. I'm thinking about rewinding the lighting coil for more power now, or switching to an...

Thanks all. I wired up a harness last night now with turn signals and new controls. Also tucked the connectors under the tank to be more hidden. I just need to mount the signals and try them out now. The tires are Kenda Challengers. 100/90/18 front 120/90/18 rear. They are all I could find...

I've actually been making a lot of small updates to the bike since the last post. Ended up converting it to 12v, and installing a new 7" diamond headlight before replacing the tail light with a smaller unit. This worked out great because the new rectifier also has a regulator removing the...

I've been putting some time into it over the past few weeks while waiting for my new control cables to come. They finally came though! Got it closer to a rideable state which feels good. Installed the new clutch, brake, and throttle cables which I had redone with black housings to clean...

Thanks a lot for the help guys. The sprocket specialist page is really helpful since you can cross reference which bikes have the same sprocket part number! Between that and JT sprockets' page I was able to find the 42t on ebay for $25 shipped not bad. It looks like the 37t is also available...

Oops, you are correct sir. I actually have a 16t just forgot since I purchased it a while ago. From my calcs this should bump my top speed up from 68 to about 75 which isn't really a huge difference. I'm having some difficulties sourcing smaller rear sprockets however. The one on the bike...

Wow really? With stock sprocketing I hit about 65-70 at 7500 rpm right now (redline) but I have a 14 tooth front to put on when I get the chance rather than the stock 15 which should earn me a few more on the top end. Power definitely isn't an issue it'll pull all the way until it runs out of...

Yep, Hooker header! Came with the bike when I got it, just put some fresh paint and shined the cover up a little. Would be pretty impossible to find one of these now I'm sure it got put on sometime in the 70's. It really opens the bike up in combination with the cone filter I have on it this...

Re-routing the exhaust is definitely something I'll be looking into down the road, the expansion chamber gets pretty hot on longer rides I have to be careful not to burn my leg on it when stopped. Especially because I don't plan on taking this bike off pavement very often there's no reason to...