Yamaha

Weekend was busy adding some final touches to Tonka, here are some pics I took of her.You can read more about it over on the.

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.

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.

Have made some good progress on the TW200 over the last couple of weeks. Originally I was going to use a steel black fender and cut and shape to suit.