My DIY bike Briggs (No Foundry Sand Cast), MIG welded up the engine platform and dual jacks shaft for real torque on trail riding, that's now needing again valve adjustment.
Oh. and yeah. cold rainy weather and for working on it and riding it, I need to transport it to legal OHV trails, which I have over past New Years a while back. No pedals, welded over crank to keep water out and added spring action Honda 125 foot pegs.
I'll will do the valve grinding inside where it is warm, but putting engine back on bike is a long process.
Once I get my surgery done on my arm for cubital tunnel syndrome, it will be a time before I will be wrenching.
Best thing today, even though the wind and the tide at the beach were not in sync with my hobby of RC Model Land Yacht Sailing, I scored at the Shack a fish sandwich. Back at home paired it with some Grolsch Double Hopped Beer.
I have windsurfed since the 80's and still have been sailing since 2017 with the nerve pain. It is fun Motorcross crunching through iced over streams and mud on the trails, but now I will go under the knife to put things back to square!
My father's cousin mentioned to me about the 2 stroke Whizzers, while I was in my teens (back in the 70's) and using plans for a motor bike I bought from an ad in the back of Popular Mechanics. So, I never got a manufacture motorbike, but the cousin took me up in his home-built Piper Cub. He learned to fly in Korea, but there he was a dentist.
The touch and go short flights were fun. The fabric covered wings, the super light craft, with dual controls, flying in was a gas. It had real short take off capability and climbed like an elevator.
I never was allowed to fly it, or used the flight simulator at the airport Civil Air Patrol, which he was in, but learned a lot of mechanics. He had license to inspect aircraft for worthiness and changed a timing belt on a Honda Civic while on the road.
Not to leave out my father teaching me mechanic also, he helped my first motor bike with some welding. He told me how to make a sheave from a washing machine pulley and some wood machine screwed to the spoke inner/outer. All the kids at the school he taught physics at, were making motor bikes this way in shop class.
You cannot get a washing machine that is strong as press stamped steel of the 70’s now. I have a Whizzer Clone Sheave I am using.
I Dremeled out the bump in the butt weld of the extruded part. The belt would slip when it had less surface contact when the bump came around.
Still a Honda 125 with manual clutch will ponder. Maybe a mod for automatic clutch as others hove done on Mfr bikes I have seen on the trails, could be in the future.
MT
