For my mental health I will build a bike - cd200 tracker

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Sooooo as some of you may or may not know I have had a very bad run with my bikes as of late ::)

After the 690 died and then my drz height seized properly and is now my second project bike :mwink: I kinda had a bit of a wobble and a minor identity crisis, please note I dont care that its petty or shallow that bikes are such a big part of my life. I love em simple as that ;)

So any how I decided that in order to retain my metal and emotional health I need to build a bike for myself

this will be the story of that

I figured I would start with the tank as polishing is one of those things that has always worked for me, it calms me down and allows my mind to processes allot of things in the background while staying chilled out to the max :D

I Picked this tank as the inside is very clean, it had been sitting with a tank cleaner fluid in the tank for a while. inside its new :thumleft:

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It has some minor surface rust but over all not to bad, and best no dents

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I started carefully stripping the tank down as much as I could so I could clean it bit by bit

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Was clad to see it cleaned up well with some MX cleaner and a stiff brush, very nice paint under the side covers

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Side covers still look great

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After it was clean I started stripping the paint off with some heavy duty paint stripper from the local hardware store. this stuff is insane! :eek: within 3 minutes of brushing this gel on the paint was cracking and bubbling off.... dont get it on your skin btw ::) no pics of that part sorry

so this was after I had washing the tank after stripping the paint, still a few paint spots here and there

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the underside of the tank was gonna need some serious elbow grease

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In order to get off the paint that was still sticking to the tank I employed a hi-tech solution, works very well if your not in a rush

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let the zen begin (very glad to have found something as zen as polishing)

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these badges are awesome, nice allow of some sort

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And sand and sand and sand and sand

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so after the first day and 8 hours of sanding zen this is where I am at :mwink:

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For tonight the tank is in a black bag covered in wd40 to stop it rusting, im like 10meter's from the sea, until tomorrow when I can carry on as there is still loads of sanding needed.
At this pace I think by next week Monday I should have the tank painted in primer and ready to go onto a shelf till I decide what colors I want to paint it.
 
Ya man, cant wait to see where this one goes. Great job on the tank a carbs so far!
 
Always cool to see something different. I'm not familiar with that model of CD, do you have a before picture?
 
teazer said:
Always cool to see something different. I'm not familiar with that model of CD, do you have a before picture?
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You mean like a before pic of this one or what they look like whne they are together?

some background on the model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CD200_RoadMaster

Honda introduced several 200 cm³ motorcycles with similar engines but different body variations in the 1980s. The model introduced in South Africa and Pakistan was known as the CD 200 Road Master. It had a twin cylinder 10 degree cylinder angle with a 360 degree Crank shaft angle engine which meant the pistons moved together and reached TDC (Top dead centre) and BCD (Bottom dead centre) at the same time. It was a detuned version of the Honda CD185 twin. It had the same Bore as the CD185 but Low compression Pistons (8.8:1) with a 53.0x44 mm Bore x Stroke compared to 9.2:1 Compression and 53.0 x 41.0 mm Bore and Stroke For the CD185 The result was less horse power, a higher fuel economy and a lower top speed. The Electrical generator system was also different from the CD185 apart from this the models were much similar.
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this is my before pic

its in there somewhere by N[]vA, on Flickr

and this is what they look like stock

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So I decided to continue with the carb bowl that I did a quick test on last night, busy sanding down the nicks and pits and so on

still a few hours to go i think, even with the dremel


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600 grit done, time for 1000 grit


600 grit done by N[]vA, on Flickr

tomorrow is another day, and dammit I need a bench grinder setup that wont destroy my room :p


Done for the night by N[]vA, on Flickr


can already see loads of imperfections =\ gonna have to go back to the sanding stage or?
 
That will be an interesting bike for sure. Don't worry about minor imperfections. That bolw looks pretty good already. Time to move on to the next part.

BTW, most of my bikes arrive in boxes or I start with one part and build from there picking up parts as I go.
 
sooooo I was busy last night on the cam cover and then the carb bowl again, better results bit not totaly happy yet.

went to the tool shop with the "dremel" ::) and they didn't know how to help me with an adapter, so I stopped past my dads office to ask him to show me how he had explained removing the front to fit this shaft size adapter... turns out that when he said "go into the store room and grab the polishing dremel" it didn't occur to him that I wouldn't know what to look for ::) ( I saw only one and asked if that the one) he almost had a heart attack :eek: what I had been using was a fairly pricey dremel-like tool that runs fast, 45000rpm at peak, waaaaay to fast for sanding and polishing

he pointde out where to find the right one in the store room, lol :p

kinda glad something was wrong as I was starting to wonder if I will ever get the finish I want. sooo tnonight and this weekend I go big with the right tools :deal: :eek7: :imaposer:

this is the result of the second night with the super high speed not a dremel but a dremel-like tool

2nd attempt by N[]vA, on Flickr

edit: even after the first run on the bowl with 1000 grit and the actual dremel it looks more "mirror" than it did in the pic above, will post once I get further tomorrow.

hope to have a wind free day tomorrow so I can finish the tank, well get it sanded and primed
 
k well this build is on the shelf while I sort things out with my other busted bikes and my now busted foot ::)
 
Big Rich said:
Ah man, sorry to hear that. Thankfully it was just your foot though, right?
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Yea totally agree man ;D

bent the entire left side rear set and broke the gear level with my foot :eek: im shocked nothing is seriously broken
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Oki so my foot is almost back to being kick ass! ;D

managed a 30km cycle and a 15 km jog today ;) and that works out to: exercise = good head space; good head space = work on bike head space :D

So I grabbed out the engine casings for one of my two cd200 engines and starting giving them a visual once over to get an idea as to what can be polished up and made to shine like a mirror. The great news is there are very few deep gashes or grind marks so it shouldn't be a nightmare of a polish. I also think I may have found a workbench polisher owned by a friend whom might not be adverse to me using it for a day or two ;)

some pre pics for you guys

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tis all for now, but more to come in November ;D
 
I figured Sunday would be my project day so after getting a few things squared away I decided to get working on the fuel tank... and what an awesome spot to work on it ;D
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Today I wanted to fill these dents and fill up the rim around the tank; sand it down to a fine smooth finish and get a layer of primer on.

here you can see the small dents on the surface.
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All ready to get going
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All these small little imperfections I am looking to smooth out
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Now I didn't get any pictures of the mixing of the body filler or any of the applying it as I didn't want to get that stuff all over my cellphone but here are a few of the first rough coating
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Got the sander and rubber blocks setup n ready to go after letting the filler dry for an hour +-
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I walk outside to find the sky looking like this
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So I decided to self the tank again for a friendlier looking sky.

The up side is I am finally getting around to editing editing some of the videos from a previous out ride I did and have been putting off ;)
 
Beautiful spot. I'm jealous.

Never seen body filler like that. Remember it's a lot easier to do a few thin layers than 1 thick one.
 
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