Wedensday night I picked up this wonderful piece of motorcycle LOL in Concord. A co-worker saw it ride up, and commented "omg you lived riding it here?" And then commented it looks like something straight from Mad Max. So this mad max looking bike is going to eventually be turned into a café racer.



The benefits there are only 2, it runs with very strong compression, clean title with current tags.



The Cons: Yes that is duct tape holding the tail light lens off of something else on, the handle bars are Answer dirt bike bars, the controls are some sort of dirt bike, the mirrors are held on with plumbers tape, the fuel tank is held on with a zip tie, and headers have been JB welded, front brakes? we don't need no stinkin front brakes, and yes that is a bungee cord holding the seat on.



When I picked it up the guy asked if I was going to ride it home. Luckily I had a friends Ranger. He then informed me that last week he discovered it gets a real bad death wobble at 110mph.

uh ohh, another man with a financial death wish. =D

LOL I own a miata, that so far has been a much larger money pit.

So far scored a tail light lens for free! Got a left front caliper for $10, got a fuel tank for $60 and sold my old tank for $50. BUT I just dropped $36 to Suzuki for banjo bolts, and exhaust gaskets.

Right now I looking at $400 to get it on the road (tires, bearings, chain conversion), and another $400 to get it to where I want it

So here is what I have done to the bike.

- Tore apart the forks, cleanend them out, resealed them, and refilled with 20wt
- Took apart the tripple clamp, new ball bearings, synthetic grease, repaint
- Removed cheesey air fork kit, and installed stock fork bolts
- New front wheel bearings
- Found a non seized left front caliper on e-bay, rebuilt the front calipers new pads
- Found a Suzuki front brake master cylinder, rebuilt it
- Found the missing frame/tank support that previous ass hat cut out, welded it in.
- Found a GS750 fuel tank and replaced the too small GS550 tank
- New seedo cables, throttle cables
- Rebuilt both electrical hand controls
- Replaced several feet of burnt harness
- Found OE turn signals
- Rebuilt the carberators, new o rings, gaskets, synced them
- Installed pod filters and repaired the holy Kirker exhaust
- Installed new bearings in the rear wheel
- Ditched the 630 chain and installed 530 chain and sprockets
- New Avon Roadrider tires 100/90-19 front and 120/90-18 rear
- Found a tail cowl
- Found an OE tail light lens
- Found an OE clutch lever and rebuilt it (was compleately ovaled out, machined new bushings)
- Found a headlight assembly, and brackets
- Found a pair of side covers

Lots of free stuff, horse trading, and e-bay. Bike was $300 out of pocket and another $400 (left over from Miata sale). And now it is a rider, it is pretty fast, but nothing like my RD400 was. I am going to toss it on the Dyno next month to get the jetting better dialed in. Repaint is coming in the winter when I pick up another car and can tear the bike down.

i like what you did to the cover plate!!

+2 on the cover plate!

+3 on the cover plate!

Jeff

bored, so i found a few 2 stroke bikes of similar vintage here in taiwan. They're dirt cheap here. You can almost find them abandoned.

Get one and break them down into pieces and bring them back.

Jeff

+5 on the cover plate. nice touch~!

If you find any Yamaha RD series bikes they are worth bucks . Same thing with Suzuki GT series bikes (all two strokes).