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1989 Kawasaki KX 250

Marty — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:54:28 +0000

This kx250 was fully rebuilt from the ground up, not your usual slap
dash effort! The bike starts first kick and runs sweet as a nut,,
it will still need run in, its like a brand new engine now.

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New parts include:
Full crank rebuild including new condrod with new big end bearing and small end bearing (Fitted By PJ Motorcycle engineers)

Main bearings
Gearbox bearings
Piston kit
Gaskets, o-rings and oil seals
Swingarm bearing kit fitted
Gold heavy duty o-ring chain
Clutch cable
Levers
Wheel bearings
Fuel pipes and overflow pipes
Decals
Chain guide fitted to the swingarm
Footpeg springs
Exhaust gaskets, selals and springs.
Good brakes, Discs etc, Great Suspension & Great frame.

A very tidy & rapid bike for being 21 years old! because the bikes a 1989, it can be used for evo class racing.
I have a box full of recipts for all the work I’ve done and parts bought. I’ve spent a fortune on this bike as I was planning to keep it but the missus is now taking lessons and we need a new car!

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Shugtech Weekend Quading Trip At Loch Eck

Marty — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:59:22 +0000

Loaded up with the Apache RLX 250 ax Road Legal, Des with his road Legal 250 & Marty with his Yamaha Blaster on the trailer,

We headed off to Gourock to catch our ferry across to Hunters Key in Dunoon, were we started our hunt for a good camp site for the night, without this there was no place to dump our trailer and get the BBQ on the go…

We headed North along the coast of Loch Eck trying to take in the amazing scenery all around us while trying to keep our attention on the road,

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It wasnt long before we took our turn off for Ardentinny then not long after that we started to venture off road, onto the vast amount of dirt tracks roads across the top of the hills,

We setup our base camp, Des decided to made a few tweaks to his twist throttle & Change it to a thumb attachment, after a bit of messing about it wasnt to be so back on went the twist throttle,
once everyhthing was fine we left our basecamp and headed off to venture around the array of tracks, The scenery around this area of Scotland is some of the best you’ll get!

The First days ride seen us accend to around 776ft above see level, which i though was amazing, then the ride back to base camp was even more fun only because you knew were the tracks were heading and there wasnt much need to drop of the throttle around those little sticky corners, were the other side is a drop to certain death! Our camp fire that night was the best anyone could have asked for while camping, the slice rolls and coffee was on our tents and sleeping gear was all sorted, ready to move in the morning with little ease…

The morning after shug went to the shop which was only a 30 mile round trip, but the milk and fresh rolls were a god send, while the breakfast was cooking i took the blaster a little run through a field to get it warmed up a little for the day ahead, BUT 3/4 of a mile away were the hill dropped off to a water crossing my engine decided to make a rattling noise just as i reached the top of the crossing it cut out..Much pushing later and crawling along the track I got the blaster back to the base camp were i explained to Shug and Des the sound it made, but a quick fire up and it was obvious that my piston was fried! Gutted!

We packed up and decided to move camp to another location were we could get a better look inside the head, the car and trailer was loaded up and the guys set off with me at the back, when i reached the end of the dirt track, shug was standing there with his hands in his head with a look of disapointment on it, thats when i rolled up and he told me that his clutch was gone… the sound it made as the clutch tried to engage was all we needed to hear and we knew our weekend trip was over.

In the End Shug had to be tow’d at the back of the trailer all the way to the boat and home were the engine was stripped down and fixed in about 55minutes… job done, Shug and Des was rolling again, The engine in the blaster was taken out and the head pulled off in seconds to reveal what we all knew, a large section of the piston had broken off into lots of little pieces this ment a whole engine strip down to get rid of any metal shards which could be still loose inside the engine block! a short trip on ebay got me a wisco piston for about 70bux, In the meantime this is a good situation to get things fixed and ready to go for the next ShugTech adventure………

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1999 Honda Hornet 600cc Rebuild

ShugTech — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:06:02 +0000

I bought a “basket case” 1999 Honda Hornet 600 model, The engine was blown according to the last owner.

I stripped the head off and found 6 of the inlet valves were seized open, I found a 2nd hand cylinder hear on eBay for £50!! so I’m just waiting on the head gasket, that was another £50! The cylinder head just arrived tonight so im going to strip it to make sure it is ok.

hopefully rebuild it possibly using some of the shims from the old head to set the clearances, I have already cleaned the pistons and they look to be in pretty good shape, anyway, here are some pics, I hope to keep you updated as i go along, im planning to powder coat the wheels ans possibly the frame etc, I was thinking of gold wheels and blue tank etc, but im wouldn’t mind some suggestions for colour choices!

Update 2

that’s the wheels, footpeg brackets all the odds & sods away for powder coating,

I have refitted the engine to try it, and it sounds good, i have painted a few bits and tidied up others, its getting there, heres some pics of the bike now.

Update 3

I just received a load of parts from the powder coater toady, they look the biz, check it out, the colour is titanium metallic, with a clear coat of lacquer with sparkle through it….

Update 4

got a bit done today,,, should be ready to fire up tomorrow…

Update 5

Well, I tried what you were saying and used some 800 then some 1200 wet and dry to clean up the pipes then polished with some auto sol, its just about finished, just a few wee snagging jobs left, like fitting a new speedo cable, I had a quick shot today and it felt superb,,, going like the clappers….. only problem is though that the oil light is coming on when the engine is idling!!!! im going to have to have a look at the oil pump i think?
anyway here are some more pics….

Update 6 – Finished

This thing looks amazing, love it when its done…

Check out the Finished BIke in the Gallery

Hope you like it… feel free to leave your thoughts?

1998 Kawasaki KX 250

Marty — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:40:19 +0000

Another Bike hits the shed with shug going all out to build this monster from the ground up,

including new power coated frame, take a look through the pictures below, as always feel free to leave your feedback.

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1997 Honda CR80 Re-Build Part 2

Marty — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:12:06 +0000

Well after a few weeks of intense labor and great team work (well done shug) the CR80 is (nearly)re-born..

A few weeks ago when a box of bits which resembled a cr80 (part1) was dropped of to the shed, in what I thought was going to be a struggle to get it looking, the way it should be after seeing the crap that was in some of the boxes, but shug worked his magic once more and has re-built this bike and restored it back to it former glory, well except this small list of bits which are still in need of attention

Seat cover(didn’t have the staple gun for this post),

front caliper

exhaust can mount (paddy did a great job of the other front section brackets)

Once these parts are looked at and finished the bike will be ready for sale…also a better look at it in more detail in a future post…

Have a look at some of the pictures below…
feel free to leave your comments…

Shugtech go to Clydebank with the Quads

Marty — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:47:07 +0000

We had a trailer, in fact we ended up with 2 trailers.. We had our ride, a few minor adjustments to each quad, make sure all was well; especially with my 150 import, Shug re-done the valves, carb strip down, new exhaust port drilled and fixed, it was the test day for me, this day would either make me burn it or keep it..

Sunday 23rd February 2009

We loaded up the trailer with Paddys KLF 300 in front with the rest of the quads and Shug’s pit bike on at the end and well secured using a massive pulley clamp we were sorted.

We headed up to World of Golf in Clydebank, this is were we would meet Dougall riding one of Shugs
resent projects the Ram 100 quad in the car park at the rear of the driving range(just next to the five-a-side)

Once we had the bike/quads of the trailer we got kitted up and ready to roll, the paths around the back of the driving range offer the chance to get the quad opened up but not much, with hundreds of twists and turns along various paths through tree runs down gravel paths and up steep hills, once you get to the top of the hills just by the large radio tower thingy theres a small gravel football pitch, this is great if you want to race the corners or try some various wheelie action,

if you follow the paths away down to the bottom keeping to the driving range fence line you’ll come to a small burn crossing, well paddy thought it was small charging the KLF 300 through the muddy pit, but”!” the 300 dosnt have 4×4 so it ended up with us getting the toe rope out and dragging the beast from the muddy depths..

Once across & continue up and over the small incline keeping to the fence still, this is were you can get the quads head kicked in, booting it up this very long grassy/muddy path gets the dirt flying and tests out the suspension, I know cause i was thrown about like a used scud-mag, right up to the point were the main road is in view and you start to slow down for the tight muddy right turn at the bottom taking you right up onto another track, follow this all the way up and you’ll find a small 1/2 shape hut or (drinking den) that looks back down over the small valley and what a view it was on Sunday, with the sun just above the horizon making it a brilliant day for quadding…

My only wish was to get more pictures, but everyone was having such a magic time we just couldn’t be arsed.

oh and also for young Marty W to get something that lasts and dosnt brake with excessive force or use!

Martys Custom Ram

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Frankenstein 8hp Honda GX240 Homemade Gokart Test Run

Marty — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:23:42 +0000

Well after a few weeks, lots and lots of work done, the Off-road buggy/go-kart, is ready for the test run’s to begin, after waiting a while for the brake line to come, to get the back brakes working, to at least a stage were i though it would be ok

How does it look now

video after the break…

First day Test run Video…

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Suzuki Bandit GSF400 Burnout in the Shed

Marty — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:13:04 +0000

This was just after getting paddy’s new Suzuki bandit GSF400 started up and running so i thought id break it in a little to get it going…

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Honda GX240 8hp homemade offroad gokart

ShugTech — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:26:39 +0000

Well heres the start of it, rescued from the local scrap-heap, this rolling chassis was laying there and i felt bad about just walking past it, I knew the first time i seen it it could be something, but after pondering for a while I drove off thinking what a waste, it wasn’t until later that afternoon when the guys showed up, we talked about it and decided f**k it, and drove all the way back and shoehorned it into the back of the car….

After the thing was unloaded back at the shed, young Marty showed up and mentioned he had an old (when i say old i mean, laying in the back garden under a pile of shite for 3 years old i mean old) Honda GX240 generator that had the engine but was battered about a bit, we thought its worth a look, but we were just dying to see how it would look with some kind of engine on the back, after close inspection of this piece of watery crap, we says again, f**k it and took it back to the shed, I wish that we took photos or a video when I ripped the engine apart to see what kind of mess it was in, the spark plug was missing so this as you could imagine after being left out in the elements for years was just a gaping hole for the water to get in, and by f**k it got in… the barrel and the outlet ports were full of rusty muck, we managed to strip it down and get it all working, the internals were fine once it was all cleaned up…

After the re-build, we fired some fresh petrol into the carb, and believe it or not it started on the first pull, and pured away nicely! superb, I now had a fully working 8hp beast of an engine to graft onto old Frankenstein. That got me onto thinking about stopping the beast, so I fitted a brake disk from the rear wheel of a Kawasaki Zephyr 550 onto the rear axle! worked a treat, just need to mount the caliper, run a brake hose and fit the master cylinder onto the front of old Frankie.

A few weeks and it should be tearing up the grass!

The images below is basically step in the process of how this crazy pile of metal will be transformed from a pile of metal and a few wheels to a lean mean drifting machine…

Ill keep you updated with a few piccys as I proceed.

Ford Focus in car pc

Marty — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:57:37 +0000

Update: This was the finished unit, the fascia was finished with silver and the cd loading system was changed to a slot loader with the mold of the fascia just smooth enough for a great finish.

big thanks to “stevieg” and his site – www.stevieg.org/carpc/install/tours/ for the inspiration and ideas, and the the roadrunner team, and every one else in the scene, this forum has kept me up for hours, scouring over the info,,, its been a BIG help!!,,,, anyway,,, after many hours of hard work, sweat and vodka!!!!,,,, this is the stage i am at now.

I have a 7″ lilliput touchscreen upfront, i have modified the facia to take the screen, and moved the hazard light switch, and mounted a usb connector in the facia also.

video after the break.

I am running a pentium3 933 with 512mb ram, 60gig 2.5″ hd, 8x laptop dvd mounted in the facia under the screen. mx440 graphics, wintv for radio and television (thinking of upgrading to DAB?) wireless network card.

Its in the car now,,, although i still have a bit of tidying up to do and few things still to rigup,,, Its magic…..!!!! lol, I have mounted the pc onto a piece of plywood in the boot and covered it in material.

Still got to add more images after i locate them,,, the car pc was moved a newer ford focus, after the white one went, but since then the car pc with all its gps, tv, multimedia brilliance was gone, sold it all in bits through ebay, maybe another day, another car.

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