well. here we go. the family fun ride has become a little cumbersome and required some extra power. so a little (and i mean little) searching brought up a local guy in south africa that imports a little engine for a bicycle and that just seemed right up my ally check it out at www.ecotrax.biz . order placed and took delivery of the kit yesterday.
with this part of the blog i hope to keep up with the progress of the transformation of the bike. will start posting pics as soon as there are some pics to post.
hope you enjoy.
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Friday 11 November 2011
Just standing looking pretty
"I would really like to have one...". "No problem just buy it cash". That statement narrowed my wildest dreams down to a, well lets say a vintage bike. no problem, I would buy an old running bike cut it up and make a trike or something. Then the only thing was to decide what would "look nice". I settled on a specific bike, the old double overhead cam CB750 Honda's. Maybe means nothing to a reader but meant everything to me. Four exhaust pipes wildly protruding out the front of the engine and real bike sound - like on the YouTube clips. An incentive bonus paid out and the search was on, limited only by a budget.
I found what seemed to be the bike while surveying the Gumtree prospects. The only thing about it I disliked was the color but that was going to change regardless... I bought it!
Loaded the bike on the back of the pickup and brought it home. how i wish that first impressions lasted... This thing was a not nearly as nice as it looked... In fact it did not run anymore. Some nasty words were exchanged with the seller and the work started.
Tried this, changed that, set this like that. Would not have known where to start if it were not for the guys from www.cb750c.com . This was an incredible resource and still is for that matter. If you have one of these bikes, join the forum, but please read the new members thread...
Got it running and started the fun task of sorting out the cosmetics. Enjoyed a three month long adventure of painting the bike with rattle cans and kitchen curtains. Hard work but a good experience.
Finally a bike that looked like I want it to look. It was a fun two weeks that it was running until one morning on the way to work when I had to turn back and change transport.
That is where we are now. The bike is not running again. at least now it looks good.
I found what seemed to be the bike while surveying the Gumtree prospects. The only thing about it I disliked was the color but that was going to change regardless... I bought it!
Loaded the bike on the back of the pickup and brought it home. how i wish that first impressions lasted... This thing was a not nearly as nice as it looked... In fact it did not run anymore. Some nasty words were exchanged with the seller and the work started.
Tried this, changed that, set this like that. Would not have known where to start if it were not for the guys from www.cb750c.com . This was an incredible resource and still is for that matter. If you have one of these bikes, join the forum, but please read the new members thread...
Got it running and started the fun task of sorting out the cosmetics. Enjoyed a three month long adventure of painting the bike with rattle cans and kitchen curtains. Hard work but a good experience.
Finally a bike that looked like I want it to look. It was a fun two weeks that it was running until one morning on the way to work when I had to turn back and change transport.
That is where we are now. The bike is not running again. at least now it looks good.
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