Kazuki 125

My buddy Z is in Honduras right now and sent me a picture of this bike he spotted.  

The engine looks kinda cool.  

Kazuki kz125.  

I wonder what year it is.....

http://www.kikobike.com/class1.asp?LarCode=KAZUKI&MidCode=MOTORCYCLE

Found the site.

These bikes are hilariously awesome!

Check this one out.

Moyou and a tank

Moyou and her new bed (and friend dinosaurs)

MR50 Tank came today in possibly the worst packaged box I have ever been sent from ebay.  

In a plastic shopping bag, in a square box.  

That was it.

Lame.

Tank is so tiny. I would have to fill up every 40 miles.

Interesting cap.

"Use high quality two stroke oil.  Mix gas and oil."

Purple Daikon

Yeah, I know nobody cares.

Purple Daikon.

Making Thai green curry with it right now.

Purple Daikon.

Yes.

House stuff

Door to the kitchen time.

Bought a repurposed stained glass window door in Bloomington last week.

Doesn't fit perfect due to the door being a bit less than normal width.

In the space above the door I plan to build a rice paper grate.

That time of year

to fill the garage

                            

For this too.

Bodacious

Art?

Hutch and I are bringin' the vroom.

Sushi Party

Kreem.  I would not normally even think about using this crap......

my system has seemed to work just fine up till now but for 2.99......

Senior Sushi party tomorrow night - G224 - .

3 to whenever.

Probably forgot a ton of stuff.

1963 Honda CR110 Racer

1963 Honda CR110 Racer

50cc  Dual overhead cam engine.

130lb dry weight.

Top speed 87mph.

Yes.

Ginza Pachinko Machine

I played pachinko once with my dad about 10 years ago right across the street from the JR Sugamo line station when my parents visited me for a week when I lived in Japan.  It was smelly, and loud.  My father bought him and I 500 yen (5 dollars) worth of pachinko balls.  I turned mine into about 80 dollars and cashed it in for random crap. . . .  I remember at one point telling the guy next to me that he could take over for me because I was over the smell....

Today I find this vintage machine at what is now my favorite antique store in Bloomington.

 Ultra classy ash tray

Showa 52 means 1977 I think.

King of hearts

Road trip in Ibaraki, Japan.

Once again, I owe you. 

We need to ride again soon....

Your sporty is soo sad....

Photos all courtesy of Masaru!

www.livetoriderisetolive.blogspot.com

遊びに来い〜！！！

Getting ready to ride

It was a little cold, borrowed a hoodie from Masaru.

Linin' up

コンビニ break

Just kidding.  His ride is really smooth.

I smile more when I am in Japan...

Why you always creepin' with that camera?

Pretty sick harley shop.

http://www.hammer-sycle.com/

Akira and I.

Masaru is the man

  I stumbled upon these tonight as I was avoiding Shubiki and his OPT files.....

I must apologize for my face being in too many of these.

I miss Masaru and I miss Japan.  

The cut off age for the JET program is 35 right?........

CL250 parked outside of Nike park in Shibuya.  Nice.....

Just left MXMXM....bombing the hill under the train tracks going to get some ROLAN!

Yeah, another smith grind.....

Vegan Donuts in Tokyo.
Again, try to focus on the neat characters in the background of the post office or that guy with the hat.

Masaru hooking it up taking me to the Honda collection hall at the Motegi raceway...I owe you big.

Don't remember the name of this park but it was SOO hot.  I definitely had some skate hangover the next day.

Climbing wall next to the park.

1...2...3....飛べ！

Honda 1975 XL350

  I bought this bike in St. Louis a few weekends ago but had other things to work on.

This weekend I decided I needed to at least start it.....

After a day of disappointment I finally decided to open up the points cover.....

Rusty points!

As you can tell by this picture, it was rusted shut basically.

This is the IV stand setup for...kind of hard to tell.

Old plastic tank for an IV bag and this run off the magneto.

Just happened to have new points and condenser laying around that fit this thing.  

After I gapped the points, it started first kick and sounded good....

Now I just have to wait to see if Ardcore can make a jackshaft for me...

if not, this thing is getting cleaned up and tuned I will have one more bike to sell in the spring...

Picture day

I do like the stance with the kickstand.
homemade but modelled after the aftermarket stands from back in those days.
Bolts right on with the footrests.

I still love you

Bloomington

Good friends

Good memories

Thanks, Mr. Smith.

Chainguard

As mentioned before, the C110 will go for painting, so I want to get all the parts ready. As I might want to make it a little sportier, I bought an upper chaincase to modify into a small guard like the SS50's have. It can get painted with the rest of the bike and then I will be able to choose between a full case or only an upper guard.

An SS50 guard as a model for where to cut.

Cut, beadblasted, first testfit:

I had an old can of blue paint, so I gave it some color to get an idea of what it would look like. Although I'm planning to change the color to red.

Complete bike, note the new 18" wheels.

Yes, that spot on the floor came from the Honda, he marks his territory.
Time to build a new 60cc engine, I've got all the parts to make it go even faster....and not leak anymore.

Oudshoorn motor

My dad is also busy rebuilding the 700 motor for the Oudshoorn BMW.
The other enginecase cracked and the cilinders were made too short, so now a different case, which has not been completely chopped and a different set of /5 cilinders that were made to fit the /2 engine with studs going from the case upto the heads.
/2 racing motors have the problem of breaking cilinders, this is the reason of the long studs.


Dyna electronic ignition, /5 dynamo, 700LS pistons, R69 crank......and a lot more parts that do not belong together.

and another new project

Yes, as if I didn't have enough to do, I started something new.....again.
BMW R75/5 wreck to be rebuilt as an endurance racer.
We had so much fun last year at the 3hrs of Aalsmeer that we decided to build a bike for this year.

As it came in, with hardtail, the seat we put on to get an idea of what it should become.

Straightening the frame, with hydrolic pressure and tension.

First mockup; seat from ebay, tank from de knalpot, fairing I bought for my R90/6 but decided on something else, 38mm forks and 4ls 230mm grimeca my dad still had.

Hope to get it ready for the endurance events of the SAM this year.