Motorbikes

[poxon 5,933]

4 minutes ago, paulus said:

One of my next projects 1978 RD350 

Man I’m jealous. I want to build a mk1 rd350lc really bad but there strong money now days 

[paulus 26]

Just now, poxon said:

Man I’m jealous. I want to build a mk1 rd350lc really bad but there strong money now days 

i have already painted the tank, oil tank and headlight mounts. Yellow with the Yamaha black and white stripes. i am thinking of an ally race seat unit. 

[downsouth 8,377]

21 hours ago, paulus said:

One of my next projects 1978 RD350 

I do love an RD.They were the reason I stopped riding vespas when I was a teenager.2 older fellas,must have both been close to 60 pulled into the garage I was meeting my pal at Sunday morning on 2 immaculate RD400s

[downsouth 8,377]

21 hours ago, poxon said:

Looks bloody cool mate I like that I could see my self with something like that

Bit different to they usually smallframe vespas.I saw it advertised late Thursday night.Then Friday morning I couldnt find it on fb then at 2pm'ish it popped up on a different group so I messaged the fella and it turned out my pal who builds my engines built it.That was it I chucked half a barrow of muck in the skip got in my motor and at 5pm I was loading it in my pals van.I just had to have it.

[tillylamp 1,940]

On 22/09/2025 at 16:07, paulus said:

Harleys are not my thing but i found this one for my uncle, built by west coast customs and painted by Vivid Dragon, its the only Harley i have ever liked lol

I've got a bike here that's almost identical to that but it has a kawasaki engine vn800, i rode it once, that was enough for me, it was so heavy and slow it sits in the basement now, the only reason i got it was i bought it for $1 dollar,  

[poxon 5,933]

On 22/09/2025 at 20:16, paulus said:

Another couple i will be doing. The DT250E from 1977 is here already, The DT50M is on its way over from the States. Wrong seat. wrong side panel (should be an heatshield) wrong exhaust and god knows what else. all nearly impossible to find. i must be a glutton for punishment Lol. 

Really cool bikes I had a dt50mx that was a fun little bike had a top speed of about 45mph down hill but what freedom it gave me to get about was the best part 

[greg64 3,060]

On 22/09/2025 at 20:10, paulus said:

One of my next projects 1978 RD350 

thought they only made the 350 until 1975 is it an earlier engine in a later frame 

[paulus 26]

On 24/09/2025 at 11:34, greg64 said:

thought they only made the 350 until 1975 is it an earlier engine in a later frame 

That's because it is 1975, confusing it with one of the DT`s 

[paulus 26]

This little Beta that i thought would be a couple of day job after the parts came back from powder coat has been nothing but a pain in the arse, fed up with the pile of cheap crap but i have another one to do yet as there for the grandkids Christmas box. Everything you buy for them has to be modified to fit. Plastics are unobtainium anywhere for the year and model.  I am even at the point now of buying a 3D printer just to make some for them, 

[downsouth 8,377]

1 hour ago, paulus said:

This little Beta that i thought would be a couple of day job after the parts came back from powder coat has been nothing but a pain in the arse, fed up with the pile of cheap crap but i have another one to do yet as there for the grandkids Christmas box. Everything you buy for them has to be modified to fit. Plastics are unobtainium anywhere for the year and model.  I am even at the point now of buying a 3D printer just to make some for them, 

Mate you can pay absolute fortunes for aftermarket stuff to fit vepas and lambrettas and still have to f**k about with a drill and dremmel to make half of it fit.Must be something to do with anything made in Italy 

[greg64 3,060]

3 hours ago, paulus said:

That's because it is 1975, confusing it with one of the DT`s 

they didn't have that shape tank and mag wheels till later though

[poxon 5,933]

16 hours ago, paulus said:

This little Beta that i thought would be a couple of day job after the parts came back from powder coat has been nothing but a pain in the arse, fed up with the pile of cheap crap but i have another one to do yet as there for the grandkids Christmas box. Everything you buy for them has to be modified to fit. Plastics are unobtainium anywhere for the year and model.  I am even at the point now of buying a 3D printer just to make some for them, 

Man that does look cool though you do a good job. I get what you mean about some stuff being unobtainable or having to be modified to fit nice. I’m having trouble trying to get a linkage knuckle part no 1306 for a kx125 2003 because the 2003 was the cross over mutant year  that none of the pre or after 2003 fit this bike there seems to be no used ones or nos parts available the one on the bikes proper buggered I don’t fancy welding it an getting it machined because I think it’ll weaken the part I’m actually thinking of getting a machinist to design make me some billet items with billet pull rods in pro circuit length specs only problem I’ve got is they won’t just do one or two it’ll have to be 5-10 sets that’ll probably cost £1500-2 up. If you ever get a 3d printer and want to make any parts for Jo public I’ve got a couple of parts I would like making ie for 2003 kx125/250 rear brake line guides and front brake line guides these are only available in white but go a disgusting yellow colour and look rubbish on custom bikes they would look far better in black 

[paulus 26]

20 hours ago, greg64 said:

they didn't have that shape tank and mag wheels till later though

God knows i will grab the logbook when i am up the workshop tomorrow, i know the engine is later than the frame as i checked the engine numbers the other day.