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