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I got that one in my Road Rash Dummies folder, See if you can reccognise anyone in there ? http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150290319913397.351383.608808396&type=3

Tried getting some naked SV650 angled bar risers & virago 535 ones but they all went for shed loads of pennies more than i had or wanted to pay, so after posting want ads on most of the bike sites on FaceAche, I managed to track down some angled risers apparently off a Fazer 600 ? if you think or know they are off something else let me know, Thanx Now i can fit the RFX quick fork bleeders without them hitting the renthals The straight Anodized Orange/Red Billet ones i had fitted on the Aprilia yokes got De-Anodized using my special formuler got polished & buffed to a near mirror finish they are now for sale & fitted with all new bolts & allen bolts (allen bolts need a little trimming) these would look great on a custom or polished street farters yokes Let me know if you are interested in the risers http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230855085840?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Well i aint sure why the pics wasnt loading but just tried again & the pics loaded straight away in seconds ??

I am having trouple trying to put pictures on phoyobucket, I thought it was my PC feckin about, but tried again at the Library & on a friends PC, but still having the same problem, has anyone else tried & failed adding pictures lately ?

cost 99p or a quid in the cheap shops if you can find it, but wear goggles & gloves because it only says irritant on the cans but its a bit more than irritant leave it on over night and its ok to touch it the next day, and the powder coating just peels off

The other side of the wheel has covers that go over the nasty looking stuff, so will look nice & smooth when it all goes back together......sometime in the next decade

Things are moving very slowly as per usual, But have been given a good supply of stainless & steel nuts & bolts to help the build Plus got hold of some RFX fork bleeders to speed things up when changes are needed & made But fitting them i need to change the bar risers as the Renthals pass right above the top of the forks where the bleeders stick out so, i need some SV650 or similar risers that are angled like the SV650 ones pictured so if you have any please let me know !? Nearly forgot, I got some steel box section to make the new frame top tube, this has got to be cut, then slotted into place, then welded , them have the rest of the frame work made, bent then welded to that, so i should be busy for a while when i get my arse into gear !! And last but not least got the rear wheel clear of the powder coating, now ready to get sprayed white, but would look good polished, but i cant be arsed with all that polishing stuff, plus that would mean i got to strip the front wheel down too, but that just needs etching before the spray job And flywheel cleared of 5 million layers of bionic paint Thats all for now

Stan I got that covered already I have a nice big supply of sand in my garage & learned the sand trick many years ago when making model car,boats & copter exhausts. Already got some work lined up to do with it so that's it & the welder paid for I do love a bargain that pays for itself

Not much happening but did get some tools to help with the build, got a new and unused pipe bender with formers for 15 quid, was going to cost 20 but they guy couldn't find the hydraulic pump handle, but a trolley jack handle does the trick, this will be used to make my exhaust link pipe and bend the downpipes (not the one in the picture but the same as) Also got a mig welder for 15 quid, handy for the light work i need to do if the arc starts blowing holes everywhere, or maybe that's just my shite welding (probably)

Finally got the main part of the frame jig sorted, just got to cut a few brackets & get the conical head set brackets made, gotta wait about 10 days for the guy with the lathe to make them getting powder coating off wheels is usually a problem without a sandblaster but found some good suff in the quid & 99p stores that makes life so much easier also found on ebay but a lot dearer http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Graffiti-Remover-Spray-Can-300ml-Removes-Spray-Paint-Chewing-Gum-More-552424-/150850871598?pt=UK_DIY_Material_Paint_Varnish_MJ&hash=item231f69a12e#ht_500wt_1180 well a couple of squirts of it & left it overnight to work, says irritant on the can, what it should say is Kin Caustic, melted my friends rubber gloves, so use goggles when spraying the stuff, in the morning the stuff had become inert (dont melt or sting or any other nasty stuff it did when it was sprayed, the powder coating just peeled off the wheel Just got to find something to get the bionic spray off the flywheel & sprocket case, even this stuff don't do much to it & its over 1.5mm of many layers of paint, it gets loosened a bit by that spray & slowly comes off with a spinning wire brush on my drill Slow build even slower than expected, well it didn't get finished by April this year as i hoped, so maybe next April ?????

Sawyer (just to make things hard lol)

Jerry

Just hope it will be a nice one if i ever get the thing finished, its a pain in tha arris trying to get all the parts i want & need, but it keeps me busy (& insane) as they say Rome wasn't built in a day, but i bet it didn't take this long ?? oh well i ain't got bugger all else to do

Back again but with a smile on my face, after the feck up with the retard sending me the wrong part, i got the right part this time i know its the right part as i tracked the guy down and got him to list it with a picture on fleabay 20 quid with postage, its not the cleanest but DILLIGAF http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110863396152?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 got a couple of these just for fun too http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ebay-Built-Sticker-vinyl-decal-funny-car-van-motorbike-/220795046166?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3368690916 The Gas Gas electronic speedo that i had got for the bike was a bit of a disappointment, as i was told how to change the wheel sizes on the system, but found out that it could only be changed from a 21 inch wheel size to a 19 inch wheel, so i will be keeping hold of it, and will use it if & when i stick the 21 front wheel on with the knobblies for the snowy season....next week i think ? so without spending too much cash as i do, managed to find a digital bike speedo made by Bell the helmet peeps, with delivery for under a fiver http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270951724731?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 the cheap build goes on slowly

Slightly Passed off today, got a parcel today, which should have been my flywheel cover, but was sent a front disc cover???? so i emailed the numpty who sent it, he rang me back, and said he didn't have the part i wanted,and was confused as what i wanted ????? Retard Springs to mind !!! so I got a refund. So still on the look out for a flywheel cover

It's not so much of a cracking job at the moment, but done some cracking shopping, I needed a Flywheel cover for the 350, as i ain't got one, they are as rare as sawdust??? I mean rockin' horse poop, Was looking at the only one available on fleabay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-1986-XT-350-XT350-Fly-Wheel-Sprocket-Cover-/200654519741?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2eb7f0fdbd The postage was about what i wanted to pay. Anyway asked loads of people who was selling & breaking XT350's, and I finally struck it lucky, A guy had on and asked me to make an offer, so i got it for £20 including P&P, so i recon thats a BARGAIN

Not a lot happening at the moment, backs giving me hell, so I'm taking it squeezy for a bit. Got some more fleabay bargains. Gas Gas speedo & wiring harness Got to build a dash for it & the other guages i got coming for it. So got some LED idiot lights to go on the dash Also a Red/Blue flashing LED for my alarm to connect too and found out the front brake hose was too short for the USD forks (was ok for the DTR forks i had) So i got a Braided HEL hose. for pennies as usual And for the Swing arm. i got the MONO CROSS stickers made up how i wanted them (monster style) Just had a look through the posts on this, i said ready by April but didnt say what year

That's not the first time I've heard that, I've been offered £1800 for it when its finished (loony & XT350 Nut) This bike aint for sale for any amount of cash, Built by me Just for me. Better than original

A few more bits for the Stupidmoto first thing was to add a decompressor/hot start lever as the decompressor on the XT350 engine runs from the kickstart mechanism, which is OK for booting the bike into life, but is as useful as an ashtray on a Ducati, if you got to bump start the bike on an icy road With it fitted things seemed to be OK until i tried steering the bike, was OK one way but the other way the cable was too short, so i had to make one for the job so i used some adjuster parts off the 250 decompressor cable i had & added them to a pushbike brake cable kit i had, & hey presto got a long enough hot start cable now, new cable on the left old too short cable on right Got my 250/400 Superdrip exhaust cut it down, Still got to do a fair bit of work to get the downpipes to fit onto the exhaust ports, should keep me busy for a while lastly got an All balls Chain roller, just got to make to rest of the kit to fit it to the swing arm

It'll be cool if i get it sorted by the hot summer, and even cooler as I've now been off the road 9 years, but the 350 will do me fine, i just cant afford Mille's & Ducati's no more , oh well my insurance should be a lot less

A few changes to my original plans, first the VF400 downpipes i was using,just wasn't long enough & i had to make a collector box, NOT now i don't, i managed to pick up a CB250/400 Motad cheap it just needs to be cut down after the Y piece and have the rest of the pipe welded to it, also adding a Fuel/Air ratio gauge to let me know if the mixture is right, and i have to mount a Universal Lambda sensor to the pipework to get it all functioning Gauge After having the engine apart and noticing the original wire mesh oil filter was shite i decided to look for a Hi Flo filter, more expense for a XT350 one, so i tried looking using the part number & found a premium oil filter (Hi Flo) for a Yamaha Raptor 250 Raptor250 YFM250, same part number at about half the price Another change of plan was the Bellypan, i was going to use a Honda VF750F one but it looked too bulky and box like, so i found a nice cheap Honda VTR1000 Firestorm belly pan Fleabay with P&P under a tenner it was a bit of guess work and wasn't too sure if it would fit or be too big, but it came today & it looks like it was made for my bike Just needs to be sprayed white As i fitted a 1991 Cagiva Mito rear wheel to the bits of bike, wheel was cheap & included Disc & Sprocket, i later found out the disc was warped so had to get another, price & P&P £18.50 for a 2007 one BARGAIN !!! As i made my end can out of 2 Pit Bike cans, i was going to make a bracket but found a brand new pit bike one for pennies As i have done away with the airbox (never had one) the Crankcase breather pipe had nowhere to go, so i got a 14mm Breather Filter Last thing as i am fitting the old beast with an oil cooler which is larger and higher up than the standard XT350 oil coolers (when & if they have em fitted) I got hold of a non return one way oil valve, to stop the oil draining from the Cooler when the engine stops Time to start building now, well once my Frame Jig is sorted (Tuesday hopefully)

Without improvisation, things just get too expensive or not get done, and a build like this needs a lot of improvisation

Things have slowed down a bit, just waiting to get the half frame jig sorted, as the frame needs to be chopped about a bit, so the WR bits n pieces fit, coz they dont right now, and the Jig will keep everything where it should be when i start chopping & welding Have been searching Fleabay for ages to find a XT350 ignition switch with the same wiring as my knackered one, the closest i could find was 30 odd quid, so after a little thinking, decided to buy the cheapest same style ignition, which came off a RD350 YPVS, Took this & my XT350 ignition apart, mixed the good,the broke & the usable parts and finally ended up with a fully functioning WRXT 350X ignition, Just call me Sir Mixalocks Then had to fit it to the RS125 top yoke,i had to drill out the 2 6mm bolts mounting holes to 8mm and bolt it on, i just have to make spacers to cover the 2 bolts (1 arrowed in pic) and shield it all from thieving scumbags eyes

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