Bike Builds

Cases split ready for new gaskets and a new front sprocketThe Tonka Project is getting close to finishing up. I needed to replace the front sprocket and with these TW's you need to remove the left side engine case …So because of this I took the opportunity to split the cases and check out the internals and replace the gaskets at the same time.

All the body work is complete and I spent an afternoon pulling everything apart ready for the sandblaster. Because the client had decided on stainless spokes I ended up cutting the rusted old ones to make removing the hubs easier.

The Buell front forks were leaking so as a result I had to rebuild them. While I was waiting on a few parts to arrive, I thought I take the opportunity to give the headers a bit of a clean …My camera ran out of battery while I was spray painting them so I had to find a substitute video to show the similar process.

I finally had some free time to edit some footage of making the rear fender mount. Quality isn't that great as I'm using an old point and shoot.

We found this bike on ebay as a stock 1987 Yamaha SRX250. I was pretty excited to win the bike at a fairly low price even though there wasn’t much information at the time about this particular model.

Things have been progressing pretty well. With thecomplete I finished up with the rear fender mount over the last weekend.

Finished off the custom skid / bash plate for the TW today.Originally I wanted to give aluminium brazing a go for the first time but the stock that I'd bought ended up being too thick.

I had the original intention of documenting this build on video but as it turns out doing this requires charged batteries and new memory cards. Two things that I didn't have at the time I started working on the bike.