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[Sir Cheat]

I've got one at my nans was 'yellow' Sprayed black lol.. I will get some pictures up hehe

[Down&Out]

Nice one Jon! beautiful little thing.

I used to ride a Garelli Katia - Very rare and temperamental but an absolute joy, No summer is the same again.

Cheers Mike! sorry for the late reply, didnt notice your post .

I just need to scrape together the money to get it legally on the road. Cannot wait

Those are pretty cool (that Garelli Katia), as mentioned before, i wanted a cub but coulnt afford it

Edited by Down&Out, 02 March 2010 - 09:29 PM.

[Down&Out]

Right, its almost there. The front brake cable has oil soaking into it, and i spent the day making the fecking electrics work. The indicator bullet connection kept falling out, so i had to make that stay in, and the lamp needed a wire replaced. Took me forever to find out which one .

Heres a vid of it running, proving it all works

[Down&Out]

Hello,

Its coming along slowly.

I spent today doing a myriad of things.

I removed the wheels, found that the back tyre is alright so that went back on. I also cleaned the exhaust, the grime on it (which was a mixture of mud, oil and grease i'd assume) was horrendous. It ruined the scourer .

I then painted it with high temp silver, its looking good

I also painted the air intake with the same stuff.

I touched up some of the scrapes with some flame red i had lying around, looks somewhat better!

All thats left to do is fit a new brake lever, change the front tyre, fit some new suspension gaiters (anyone know where to get these?), change the seat cover and then that should be it . Put it all back together after all that and its MOT ready.

I cant find the suspension gaiters, by these i mean the rubber/plastic bits that go on the end of the forks, searched for ages last night and couldnt find any.

Any ideas?

[Twincam]

I cant find the suspension gaiters, by these i mean the rubber/plastic bits that go on the end of the forks, searched for ages last night and couldnt find any.

Took me ages to find some for my CG50E - Managed to find someone stripping an Old Yamaha Jog on eBay and bought a set from them - they're rare to find them on their own - it'll be better to contact people stripping bikes which had them on.

[Down&Out]

Yeah its a right pain in the arse, i wouldnt worry, but its probably an MOT failure.

Another thing thats missing is a seat lock, and on its last fail sheet it failed because the seat didnt lock .

I cant find one of them either.

[mighty mini jack]

Does the lock count as the catch then?

[Twincam]

Yeah its a right pain in the arse, i wouldnt worry, but its probably an MOT failure.

Its not a MOT failure I wouldn't have thought - they're only there as "dust covers" - Can try and get the numbers (if any) off the rubbers on the CG50E if you like... Not sure if i'll be able to get to them as they might be on the inside but i'll check.

They're also good for covering up weeping fork seals

Edit: Heres some for £14.99+ http://cgi.ebay.co.u...=item335a95b3da

Edited by Twincam, 08 March 2010 - 08:13 PM.

[jameslb101]

a bit of a hijack but I'm thinking of getting a moped at the minute for when my mini's off the road. Just wondering which one would you recommend as I know nothing about bikes. I'm 17 and passed my car test but just want a really cheap but totally reliable 'ped with a budget of about £500.

[Down&Out]

Anything honda is known to be reliable, and this was only £100 so i'd look at honda's you like the look of and look into them.

[Twincam]

Also depends on what you want it to look like...

The older Yamahas were good also, deff stay away from Chinese Cr*p, no matter how cheap it is.

[Down&Out]

Yeah, the cheap new stuff looks pretty good, but its crappy and slow.

[Down&Out]

Right, battery arrived, filled it with acid, let it settle, then put the acid plugs back in (werent supposed to, but being male i didnt read the instructions in any proper detail)

One of the plugs then blew out, spraying the surrounding area in acid and blew the plug 4 metres from its original location.

And the flippin' thing wont charge.

Question - have i fecked the thing up?

The electrolite has gone yellow, i dunno if thats good or bad (plus its changed levels - gone up)

[Down&Out]

Seems it was a deceiving battery charger, battery is now charged and works fine.

The brand new brake lever that i fitted was badly cast, and wouldnt go on properly, so dad filed it and it was fine - until the bit in which the end of the cable sits, broke.

Remember this is a brand new lever. Chinese FTL.

So the old one went back on for proper brake adjustment, and the front brake now works.

So what i need now, is another brake lever, a new front tyre still, some fork gaiters (still cant find any of these) and i need to fashion a seat lock.

After all that, it will be done

Anyway, i t-cutted it today, so heres some pretty shots:

[Down&Out]

Hello again, did a fair bit of work today.

Fitted a topbox - its ugly as hell but it saves me having to carry a helmet around.



I also fashioned a seat lock. This took me all day

Main reason being that it was stupidly strong metal, the drills where blunt and the drill was going round the wrong way .

Got there in the end though, i havent got any pictures as of yet because i've just painted it and ill get you some pictures when i fit it tomorrow.

Pikeys cant steal my fuel now .