Friday, November 30, 2012
Reader rides! Some really nice customs RD Cafe's
Murray Pawluk sends in some of his builds! Nice stuff! Sorry Murry, I've been waaaaaay slow getting back to this board.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
One Trick RD Cafe from the UK!
From van J Addams.
Hi, great Blog , I've been following it almost from the beginning. I've been mad about 2 stroke bikes since the late 70's and have had a number of Yamaha RD's since 1981 all of which have been tuned and modified Cafe Racer style. Most saw action on the drag strip. I've had my current bike for about five years. I've attached some photo's. It's in a constant state of evolution and develops almost weekly. It's popular at bike meets and always draws a lot of attention. It's no show bike as I often use it for work which is a sixty mile round trip accross the North York Moors.
I am in the fortunate position of working in a machine shop in the aerospace business so I can do all the work myself. Currently if my memory serves me correctly it is based on a modified D model frame with RD350LC front forks, needle roller swing-arm and rear suspension, wheels and brakes are RD400. The seat is a maxton TZ item and the tank is also TZ but I don't know who made it. Pipes are Allspeed, Really old, knackerd ones which came off a racer, I repaired them and modified the fittings to suit. The motor is Fahron tuned 370cc and very quick. I've done a lot of mod's to the engine which would take a page to list. I modified the intakes to suit banshee reeds and it currently runs 28mm carbs, however, I have a set of Mikuni VM 28's which I'll fit over winter. See-thru clutch cover was done for me by NK Racing. All shiny bits are by me and made from either aircraft grade alloy or titanium, I'll make parts for any bike but prefer 70's two strokes. I urgently need to modernise the brakes, another job for winter. I have another project on the go; a kenny roberts' replica which will be watercooled (it's not an LC though) more of that some other time. Hope you like the photo's, I'll soon be filming a very sexy two stroke cafe racer video starring my lovely wife, I'll send you a link when it's on line.
Regards. Ivan J Addams Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
S1 Tracker update..
Aaron Pierson sends in an update on his tracker
I sent in a few pics of my s1 tracker a while back, but now I've got good pipes on it! These are a set of WTF's. As you might know you get these pipe kits as a set of rolled cones. I had previously NEVER TIG welded before. So I got the kit, a brand new Lincoln 155 and got started. What a learning curve! And completely worth the effort! I urge anyone wanting to try and build pipes to do it. In this configuration the stingers are 90% inside the baffle cone. This gave unrestricted flow and knocked a few DB's off the noise level.
An AR50 from the UK
From Aaron Threlfall
Nice to see the next generation keeping them on the road!
My 1989 Kawasaki ar50, restored to put on the road in January for when i turned 16
Nice to see the next generation keeping them on the road!
A shoutout to a fellow 2 stroke enthusiast!
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I have been following your blog for a while now and thought you might be interested in some fellow 2 stroke enthusiasts in the South Pacific. We are a very keen group of enthusiasts living in and around Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Our blog is http://bluehaze-gazza.blogspot
Our website is https://sites.google.com/site/
Utube http://www.youtube.com/gcwhiti
Keep up the good work with the blog.
Kind regards
Stunner of a low mileage rather rare 1968 Beta 125 Premier
From "Bigtruck" Johnson. Anyone know the bike?
Hi, I am looking to get any information I can about my 1968 Beta Premier. It's a tasty old original with just 10 miles on it! I seen Ted Guthie's stunning restoration and he mentioned a couple friends each having one. If someone can somehow forward my email to him, maybe he'll get back to me so I pick his brain. Thanks, Steve
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