bought a new bike, but not a "ton" runner by far.

[rufio]

So I picked up a little Suzuki Ts185 for pebbles. Its a cool little dirt runner as I brought it up to El Mirage over the weekend, and I loved it. WOT on the drylake bed and served a purpose in the little pit track by our campsite. The bike needs a lot of love and attention bcosmetically. It had a shitty yellow rattle job on it, so I stripped a layer of rattle can yellow to uncover the old blue and white. Then I decided to strip it totally. I thought about doing a slow build on it, but nah....im just gonna leave it as a beater so I can keep taking it to the desert, but I do want to get it street legal. It has blue plates, but I need to get all the lights.

 

[rufio]

Here are a couple pics of cleaning it up and stripping the tank.

 

[Luugo86]

Cool little bike man.. Ive been wanting to get an old dirt-runner/enduro bike like that for a while now

 

[rays650cafe]

I like it. Kind of been half looking for something like that.

 

[rufio]

Thanks guys. I love this 2 stroke moto. So easy to work on. Spent the afternoon cleaning all the yellow overspray the PO gunned. Here's what I got now. Just a litttle but cleaner than the last pic.

 

[Mr.E]

Looks great man. I've got a 74 ke100 I'm doing the same stuff to right now. Love these old smokers

 

[4eyes]

Is that the model that had a hi/low range gearbox?

 

[rufio]

Nay.....it's not a model with Hi/low Gears. PO told me its been ported and I got it up to 70 at the lake bed.

 

[rays650cafe]

Awesome! ;D