In idea i have several, but for now gonna focus on one maybe another in a while
so as some of you might know my good friend Matti got a free kx65 with a dead engine for electric bycicle project. that failed for him. But i had this urge to get a minisupermoto for a while. so he offered me his, because he was going to junk it anyway.
so i got it brought to Latvia by a "relative" tucked it in my car on our visit
did a quick assembly one evening(i know the forks are wrong way in, it's already fixed
since the lump was bad one and new cylinder kit is 400eur, i decided to crap that shit ad get something cheap to fit in. so after an ebay browsing i stumbled upon 40eur EBE engine from bultaco astro(derbi senda, i think some aprilia, well it's popular)
since they come as 200-300eur in decent state i took a gamble, that i might lost
will try to drill this out
as for head, well two head studs came out one was already snapped and one is quite stuck
also the piston doesnt move, so it looks i will need a new crank, or iļl give repressing a bearing one this one a go
took some fight to get it off
head has a crack in it aswell
clutch side looks good tho
good thing about engine is...
they're cheap for an engine
new crank starts around 50euros, cylinders has a lot of aftermarket, with bifferent crank can be made up to 110cc( and thats two stroke we are talking about)
about the chassis, it's okey, plastics needs to be sprayed, one of fork legs leaks, missing front numberplate, steering clamp.
my aim? to get it ridable within less than year, so i can take it to Smash next year. but i also want to take VF build too, so as always i have bitten more than i can chew
so as some of you might know my good friend Matti got a free kx65 with a dead engine for electric bycicle project. that failed for him. But i had this urge to get a minisupermoto for a while. so he offered me his, because he was going to junk it anyway.
so i got it brought to Latvia by a "relative" tucked it in my car on our visit
did a quick assembly one evening(i know the forks are wrong way in, it's already fixed
since the lump was bad one and new cylinder kit is 400eur, i decided to crap that shit ad get something cheap to fit in. so after an ebay browsing i stumbled upon 40eur EBE engine from bultaco astro(derbi senda, i think some aprilia, well it's popular)
since they come as 200-300eur in decent state i took a gamble, that i might lost
will try to drill this out
as for head, well two head studs came out one was already snapped and one is quite stuck
also the piston doesnt move, so it looks i will need a new crank, or iļl give repressing a bearing one this one a go
took some fight to get it off
head has a crack in it aswell
clutch side looks good tho
good thing about engine is...
they're cheap for an engine
new crank starts around 50euros, cylinders has a lot of aftermarket, with bifferent crank can be made up to 110cc( and thats two stroke we are talking about)
about the chassis, it's okey, plastics needs to be sprayed, one of fork legs leaks, missing front numberplate, steering clamp.
my aim? to get it ridable within less than year, so i can take it to Smash next year. but i also want to take VF build too, so as always i have bitten more than i can chew