spidergsgp
Active Member
I've had my 450 for 2 years now and it's time for something new. I've had the cylinders bored to 73.5 making it close to 500cc. It's a mean bike and needs a hard tail. Please keep in mind I have no idea what I'm doing and am not planning on doing the welding on the bike. I'm going to mock it up and take it to a professional. Here are some pictures of the progress so far.
$200 not running and covered in mud. If mud could get packed in somewhere, it was. 16" rear wheel and chrome swingarm.
I cleaned the tank and carbs and got it running sort of. Tore the engine down and found tons of metal everywhere. Ended up boring the cylinders, replacing the cams and all end caps/bearings.
Here's my daughter helping with the teardown.
This is how I rode it last summer. It was pretty freaking loud. ....and then I blew the headgasket and started blowing oil out of the right cylinder.
I started chopping today!
first mockup I cut up my chaparral frame to get ideas for bends
I'm not too happy with those bends. I might use some conduit to mock up and have someone bend the pipe for me. I'm planning to run the rails and cut the swingarm out. That's a 360 swing arm to gain a little length too.
$200 not running and covered in mud. If mud could get packed in somewhere, it was. 16" rear wheel and chrome swingarm.
I cleaned the tank and carbs and got it running sort of. Tore the engine down and found tons of metal everywhere. Ended up boring the cylinders, replacing the cams and all end caps/bearings.
Here's my daughter helping with the teardown.
This is how I rode it last summer. It was pretty freaking loud. ....and then I blew the headgasket and started blowing oil out of the right cylinder.
I started chopping today!
first mockup I cut up my chaparral frame to get ideas for bends
I'm not too happy with those bends. I might use some conduit to mock up and have someone bend the pipe for me. I'm planning to run the rails and cut the swingarm out. That's a 360 swing arm to gain a little length too.