poxon
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Cleaned the frame up and made a start reassembling it how I want it. made a custom billet steering stop for the new triple clamps gunna be a really trick little bike once done
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That’s it mate gotta keep em serviced. Looks good
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Up early this morning couldn’t sleep got some banging music on the headphones an got to it
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Nice one mate
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That’s cheap mate good find for £60 you’d make that back selling the cases an gearbox separately out of that
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Getting harder to get bits for the o3 kx but plenty of pattern parts about bloody he’ll bet the bottom end wasn’t cheap I tryed buying a f****d 03 bottom end the guy wanted £700 for it the thing is with these mx bikes there worth more in bits loads of people are buying up cheap bikes to brake up for parts
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Our right mate I’ll have to wait an see any how I haven’t even opened the engine up yet I don’t know if it’s buggered the cylinder up or not but the colour of the plug it wouldn’t of been long before melt down happened
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Why stick with cast mate?
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Top ends on motor cross bikes vary some say after every race meeting they like to put a fresh top end on most people say 20hours some say you should get 40hrs I’ve a hour meter on mine I’m at 21.8hrs I think these little 125 should be done pretty regularly as they only have 1x piston ring and are a highly strung engine I think mines got a normal cast piston in it but think I’ll up grade to a forged race piston I’ve just looked at a kit it’s £150 for a top end kit
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Amazingly it still runs but lumpy as hell the revs hang up like it had a air leak ticks over like crap then cuts out I first thought crank seal was bad and drawing in air I’m guessing the only reason it runs with 50psi is because it ain’t got a conventional carburettor im using a lectron meter rod jetless carb on it so it’s self adjusting so would just dump the amount of fuel an air to run it. The gauge is a fresh un only used twice when I first put the bike together I’m sure it had about 160psi might have had a little more
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Little kx is whooped 🥲down on compression to much wringing its neck! I was going to wait a while an finish collecting all the bits to do a race themed build but looks like it’ll be getting fully stripped over the next week
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Mate I can relate to this got a daughter in college now she’s not taking it seriously we had a word with her last week she said ok this week the last 2 days she was meant to be in college before braking up for Easter she decided she didn’t want to go in I get emails from college saying absent when I spoke to her she told me none of her mates went in then started giving me a load of shit about what she feels me an my misses went scorched earth at her I told her a few nasty home truths that she didn’t like I also told her I’ll be taking the phone I pay for I spoke to my old man (dad) her grandda
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Can always do English and maths at college mate that’s what I did when I left school I left with no grades couldn’t get a apprenticeship and couldn’t get on a mechanic’s course my first year I did English maths and information technology I done electronics an woodwork to fill the gaps in lessons throughout the week then welding in the evening for the first year by the second year I got on a mechanic course as my grades were correct probably about 8month in to the course I had to get work experience in a garage wasn’t long in to the work experience that the garage wanted to take me on as a appr
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Defo a good skill to have stood me in good stead knowing how to weld I’ll definitely be getting a tig welder for my little workshop but it’s at the back of the list for now as there’s a few other things I want to do first like rinsing my spare money on titanium and billet parts for this kx factory themed race bike I want to build my pocket money is taking a proper hammering
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I’ve done quite a bit of welding went to evening classes when I was at college doing my mechanics course it was a decent course I really enjoyed doing it there was a farmer on the course we got pissed off with welding flat bits of clean metal we ended up getting the farmers dads sheep panals in an any gates that need mending. Learning to weld is a good skill to have mig is a pretty easy skill to pick up and arc welding is pretty easy just make sure you clean/grind or cut back to clean metal and have a good earth or else is spatters I wouldn’t bother with gasless welding it’s pretty cheese I wa
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oven cured mate i heat taped were the bearings fit as I didn’t want it playing about with the tolerance an sprayed one hub at a time to make sure i could get round everywhere the hardest part was getting a covering we’re the spoke heads sit as you got 2 head position pointing one way an one the other as these talon hubs have a strange spoke pattern not like normal wheels but was definitely a enjoyable process I’m gunner be doing a few other bits soon when I restrip the bike down like brake calliper,power valve cover,clutch side caseing
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That’s what the link dc posted on Wednesday was saying mate its a load of shit ain’t it I can’t see how someone that keeps a small flock for eggs is a problem tbh I can understand these large commercial units having to register as there’s ££££ an someone has to foot the bill for losses or subsidys or contracts not met but with the amount of migrant birds carrying it there never control it plus the amount of poultry products imported that have lower standards than the uk it’s all a waste of time I personally think it’s a form of taxable control coming to the normal man that wants to live
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Cheers fella I done these ones all even hand nipped up then marked the first spoke up with a bit of masking tape near we’re the valve for the inner tube then tightened every 3 spokes quarter of a turn with a spoke key till I’m back to the original spoke then add another bit of tape to the next spoke and go round every 3 again till the beginning this process is repeated 4 times you don’t have to wrench on the spokes just nip them bit by bit evenly or when you come to true the wheel on a trueing stand it’ll be all over the shop up down side to side you gotta remember if your over tighten say 12
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Yes mate bit fiddly and time consuming
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There the excel rims I’ve had powder coated
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Party time hope they turn out half decent burnt bronze is the colour I went for
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Anything I want to do or want to see how it’s done I use utube it’s a brilliant tool for insight an information.Good on ya mate that’s the way gotta have a crack your self if not your paying silly prices for someone else to do it
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suppose to be real hard durable stuff on the read ups I’ve done on it your have to pop some pictures up once it’s done mate
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Cheers mateMate we all gotta learn somewhere I watch a lot of how toos on utube it’s like a lot of these specialist skills once you see how they do stuff you think to your sen that don’t look to hard to do bet with a bit of practice I could do just a good a job. Nowt wrong with the rattle can stage king just had flashbacks of my youth talking of rattle cans many of dodgy£10 bmx bikes were sprayed black
