Bastard. Currently.

El Bastardo as it sits currently.  Gotta do something for a seat cover. Sounds like a raped ape. Its the bane of my neighbors' existence.

Haha. Instead of checking everything for safety, I get it fired up and do a weenie burnout for my friends. Thanks for the vid Dan-o.

Rear Sprocket

Cut by Rebel Gears. These guys are awesome. They whipped this sucker out fast, accurate, and clean.

Foot pegs...

...done.

Carburetor...

...is a funny word. When I'm really bored I like to see how many spelling variations of the word I can find on Craigslist accross the country.

Made some new runners into the intake ports since the boots were shot.


Should work fine. Cross my fingers. I would like to do a full metal piece. It aint pretty, but neither is the rest of the bike. So its perfect.


Opened up the Mik to find a broken float hinge. Fixed that right up. I might go with an Amal in the future. Not sure yet. Need to do more research. Back to work.

Cramped

Footpegs for contortionists. Need to come up with something else.


Lookin' good. Awkward from some angles, but good.

Removable

Got some work done on the crusty bastard.

Need to finish up the top mount and brace over the valve cover, pick up some good hardware and I'll set up the carb (thats right, carb, singular) and ignition and see if this pup kicks over before getting any farther with this set up. The dual carbs will interfere with the frame. A single will sit right in there with a fabbed manifold. I'll be using an 84 SR400 round slide Mikuni. Ive seen a few parallel twins with this setup and thet seem to work ok, although I havent found any dyno numbers that can give me any insight to change in power. Reliability and ease of maintainence is what Im really looking for in this case. Might have to play with the jetting a bit though. Just because both displacements are relatively the same doesnt mean anything.

Too many irons in the fire. 3 bikes not including the new project design my buddy and I have on the planning board. Just now put the engine back in the TY (right). I need a day or two off. To work... Damn.

nOi!ce

Frame stiffened up nicely as soon as I tacked in the lower cradle. Mounted up some nice bosses for the front engine mount. Finish welded the cradle. Aaaaaaaaaand now I need to put some cross bracing in between and extra bracing around the lower rear eng mount. Woot. About 5in of ground clearance. A little low for my taste, but thats what you get for stuffing an oversized lump in a tiny frame. That little honda motor better be a runner, otherwise I might have to cram some other craziness in there. Maybe a TT600 single??? Time will tell. Gotta go finish this shyte.

The engine is hanging in there on it's own now. I'm going to put some small tube through the bolt holes on the frame for the front hanger, just like the original CB400 mounts. It took some precision drill work (yeah right) but it all lined up nicely. I was going to start on the rest of the frame and saw that it was after 3am in the wee morning, so I mocked it all up and couldn't resist a few snaps. More work to do.

Getting everything where I want it. Mocked up the exhaust to see where the pipes would run. I want to keep it nice and tight. I decided to continue the cradle underneath the engine to keep the pipes pulled in and give a place to mount a skid plate. Although this thing will hardly clear a cockroach when its all done. Whatever, if it doesnt work out I'll just build a jig and make my own frame. Hardtail of course. Either way, Im having a blast.



Sorry for the blurry pics. I was in a hurry.

I wanted to keep most of the original cradle but, the engine wont sit low enough and be removable for maintainence. Also needed to line up the output sproket to clear the swingarm. Been working my day job hard, so progress has been slower than I prefer. I killed a bunch of time trying to mount my tubing bender to my garage floor. The 10 dollar diamond tip concrete bit was toast after about an inch and a half of work. Did it slow and tried to keep it cool, but it didnt live up to its name. Ive got a few railroad ties buried in the back yard that should stay put. Ill just have to mount the bender and use it outside till I build a heavy-ass workbench that mounts to the wall. I drew up 10,000 sketches for the lower cradle. Madness. I have dreams about engine mounts and triangulation. Speaking of triangles, I found some useful stuff. TonyFoaleDesigns.

Do you ever...

...stop and think about IF you should do something BEFORE you do it?


...Nah me neither.
A lot more work to do before its even remotely safe.

Greezy Bastardo

So light and easy to pull out. Having regrets pulling it.


Fresh n clean(er).


Oh that will look pretty in there. Screw it! "Chop em all, nothing is sacred!" to quote Slim.

Yup

That is going into that. I could keep the little 2 stroke 175 in there and make a decent ride, but I wanted a frankenbike, so Im going to bastardize it even harder with a CB400 twin from a 78. I mainly picked it up because the price was right (cheap). What I failed to notce is that it runs off of a CDI ignition. Which requires a battery. A magneto powered, batteryless, light, fast, agile, bike is what I was after. We'll see what can be done to ditch the battery. The Cb400 was not ideal in the fact that they are picky with octane levels, a bit heavy for its displacement, and power is only about 10hp more than the 2stroke. But, does offer gobbs more torque, the ability to not require premix, and the propensity to be an excellent daily runner that can do dirt. Not going to ditch the 175 engine though. Ive got plans for that.

El Bastardo is coming along

Pulled this headlight from the "DeathKart", a 70's TeeBird golf cart that never really came to fruition. Probably for the best interest of me and my friends safety. It most likely won't be bright enough but that's the thrill of it.


Skateboard wheel for a chain tensioner. I've wanted to do this for the last two years. Anything goes on this bike. El Bastardo is it's new name. So, while looking for a skate wheel I noticed someone had helped themselves to my skate. It's missing and now the weathers nice to go ride some vacant parking lots. Thanks to whomever was dick enough to take my board. I hope you bust your ass on it now.



Factory 70s yamaha paint can take a bullet. The nasty rattle can green burned off in 5 minutes with the paint stripper. The blue yammy paint underneath took another 2 treatments at about an hour a piece. After an hour of sanding I have a fresh steel tank. It's snowing today. Hopefully the humidity doesn't make it flash rust before I get some clear on it.

Making some...

bars,



to replace these bars,

While listening to The Bars.

The cables dont like the shorties but I think they are rad.

New Toy

Well, new to the garage anyway. Yamaha DT175. Rusty, greasy, and in need of a lot of work as usual. Came with another DT tank, a seatpan, and a Husqvarna vintage tank. Hell yeah! Not to mention the possibility of another rolling frame. Ok, back to work on the TY.