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| Kjelle:
Hi all! Brass_Machine asked me tell you guys more about my bikes... Well, it started a little more than two years ago, when I found an ad on one of the smaller Swedish ad-sites... "Husqvarna 250 motocross bike for sale", but no picture of the bike, as the seller had 2 bikes in the same ad (the other was, probably, a small Japanese bike), so I mailed and asked for a few pictures This is the first he sent me... When I got the mail with the picture, I saw that this is no Husqvarna, so I went into my rather extensive library on the computer, and searched for a while. I found a picture from an Italian site, that matched this... It turned out to be an Ancillotti, probably a 125 from 1977-78. I posted a few of his pics on the Italian forum and got the same answer, so negotiations ensued. It turned out that the seller was around 15 years old, and was willing to sell or trade for a good soft air gun. Now, I don't like to put those things in kids hands, so I checked what a thing like that would cost and told him that I would pay him that amount (850 SEK/€85), and he accepted! Now, I live in Stockholm, and he was/is in Mora, 320 km away! A few weeks later (in fact, exactly 2 years ago today), I loaded my son in my car and off we went! I told the kid I would come with my tools, so I could disassemble it myself, but the damage was already done... This is the stubaxle, it holds the sprocket/brake drum to the swing arm. As he had no clue how to disassemble the rear wheel from the arm, he pounded the stub axle with a hammer, and when he found out how to take the rear wheel off, the damage was well done, the axle was mushroomed, and wouldn't come out, so he took a saw or an angle grinder, and cut out the swing arm!! This was just the beginning of the damage done by a series of rather non-mechanical minded owners... Someone had cut off almost all brackets for the rear fender, and the tank bracket in front of the steering head. Also, some previous owner had lost or broken the front engine-to-frame brackets and made some new from 1/4" aluminum (original is 3 mm steel). Somebody lost or damaged the dry clutch parts, so he MIG welded the hub to the cage And to top things off, they had welded extentions to a set of moped shock absorbers! In the end, it was a frame with wheels, tripple clamps, and not much more. But the wheels were really good, polished rims, tight spokes, undamaged hubs, and best of all; straight and round! Now, I hope the pictures come out right and small enough to fit within the rules! More to come later, I have to go to bed now working day tomorrow! Kjelle |
| foozer:
It'll keep you busy. Spent years redoing the Putt Putt in my avatar. Last time I road it I blew a crank bearing, not a good idea to ride hard a 40 some year old toy :) Found another crank, new pistons and such. have not started it yet since the repair last year. I just cant resist the Go baby Go! plus have to mix up fuel for it has no hardened valve seats, so some real tetraethellead and what they call gas now-a-days keeps me close to home. Fun projects tho, better to restore the old iron than trash em. Robert |
| jim:
the abuse of previous owners! you do have to wonder what they were thinking! |
| MrFluffy:
Interesting, theres all sorts of mad little european companies, although it does have the look of a old aircooled DT175 motor, is it a yamaha motor or one of their own? Ive seen that level of abuse before sadly, and it is always smaller bikes. 50cc or field bikes are "fixed" by a series of owners as their first bikes and each in turn does their fumbly first attempts at learning things. Mopeds on the road are always a series of disasters in bodge form too, when I used to work in a bike shop that broke a small amount of bikes for parts we'd always groan at the arrival of a very used tiddler into the shop, wondering what bits we would have to unbolt with the angle grinder... |
| Swarfing:
You will always find that this is where people get the first experience of a left handed thread :hammer: |
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