Thursday, 1 September 2011

Bike guts

I may have mentioned I don't have much money so how was I going to get an engine?
Steal one? Nah my mother would kill me.
Make one? yeah right I can hardly make toast
Buy one? no money remember
Well it turns out my colleague has a dad who hoards stuff, old canoes, door locks, hats, banana skins any thing really and one very old very Rusty Honda CB125T, oh yeah. Engage sweet talk, walk home with most of a bike. Feeling very smug I start stripping the CB down with my new tools from the woman a screw fix.
Once the bike was stripped down. I kept the engine carbs and wiring loom. the rest went on eBay.
I've got my engine and loom, and even some pennies from the sale of the bits of CB. Of course I brought the boss some flowers to keep her sweet.

Suprisingly my Honda engine did not fit in the Kawasaki frame some a call to dad and some free mild steel was now mine along with a borrowed hack saw and some wise words of wisdom. Basically he said why you doing this, just get a bike on HP or go with out. So now with my determination fully recharged I cracked on with the engine mounts and back to screw fix for a drill and drill bits, then back to screw fit to swap the masonry bits for metal bits. I'm on first name terms with Wendy at screw fix. she also thinks I'm a knob.

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