Bandit Bill
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Bandit Bill's CT70 Redneck Build (along with other small Honda's)
Wow, it's been a while since i was on this site...
To recap, I bought a '76 CT70 (among a few other CT70's generally defined as loose collections of parts more or less bolted together) as the basis for a project in August 2007. At that time, the CT70 looked like this:
I rode it a few times that year, before the hard frosts of fall hit, and then I parked it in the garage. Upon pulling it out of the back of the garage within the first weeks of the next spring, a few kicks resulted in nothing. Further investigation showed that the Muppet who had sold me it, had stripped a head stud out of the cases, and instead of effecting a proper repair, had epoxied it back in place, crossed his fingers, and sold it on to this poor unsuspecting sucker.
Unfortunately, i had also got sick in that Spring of 2008, and well up until a few weeks ago was un-well, to the point of not being able to do more than check to see if it was still leaning against the back wall of the garage.
However, recently, i happened upon a kijiji advertisement for a new condition, previously unused Lifan 140cc motor and picked it up.
My intentions with this project are two-fold - build one CT70 based upon the '76 model and the Lifan motor, and with the spare parts remaining from the other parts bikes, as well as parts replaced from this one, build up a stock motor-based 88cc CT70 later on.
Now, this is where it gets funny. My garage is seriously full - and i'm still too shaky health-wise to spend much time out there anyway... so, the build is going on in the living room - on the coffee table to be precise. I will be emptying the garage of one bike eventually, to make room - to sell it off in order to help finance these projects, but until that happens, the living room it is.
As it sits, two evenings ago.
This particular project will see essentially two stages, based upon parts order intervals. The first major order will be to get all components necessary to have it up and running - electrical, exhaust, cooling, chain and sprockets, and all the miscellaenious small bits to complete a 'runner'. The second stage will involve replacing both front and rear suspensions, and the necessary components to 'upgrade it' cosmetically. It will not be done with stock components, or stock appearances in mind - if it works, it fits, and i like it, then it is good enough for me.
At that point, i'll have pretty much all of the components to start concurrent work on the second 88cc CT70, based upon a '78 frame, and four motors that i have on hand in parts or whole.
Not directly related to this, but along the same lines, I recently got ahold of the descendant of the first 'motorcycle' i owned, which was a 1966 Honda C65 Cub. The call of nostalgia proved too strong, and a 1981 Honda C70 Passport came home with me recently.
I'll be collecting parts for this over time, with the mind of making it a clean runner project - but for now, it runs pretty good, and is currently put to use as a corner-store getter, since bicycling at this time is no longer an option due to physical issues.
Stay tooned..
Wow, it's been a while since i was on this site...
To recap, I bought a '76 CT70 (among a few other CT70's generally defined as loose collections of parts more or less bolted together) as the basis for a project in August 2007. At that time, the CT70 looked like this:
I rode it a few times that year, before the hard frosts of fall hit, and then I parked it in the garage. Upon pulling it out of the back of the garage within the first weeks of the next spring, a few kicks resulted in nothing. Further investigation showed that the Muppet who had sold me it, had stripped a head stud out of the cases, and instead of effecting a proper repair, had epoxied it back in place, crossed his fingers, and sold it on to this poor unsuspecting sucker.
Unfortunately, i had also got sick in that Spring of 2008, and well up until a few weeks ago was un-well, to the point of not being able to do more than check to see if it was still leaning against the back wall of the garage.
However, recently, i happened upon a kijiji advertisement for a new condition, previously unused Lifan 140cc motor and picked it up.
My intentions with this project are two-fold - build one CT70 based upon the '76 model and the Lifan motor, and with the spare parts remaining from the other parts bikes, as well as parts replaced from this one, build up a stock motor-based 88cc CT70 later on.
Now, this is where it gets funny. My garage is seriously full - and i'm still too shaky health-wise to spend much time out there anyway... so, the build is going on in the living room - on the coffee table to be precise. I will be emptying the garage of one bike eventually, to make room - to sell it off in order to help finance these projects, but until that happens, the living room it is.
As it sits, two evenings ago.
This particular project will see essentially two stages, based upon parts order intervals. The first major order will be to get all components necessary to have it up and running - electrical, exhaust, cooling, chain and sprockets, and all the miscellaenious small bits to complete a 'runner'. The second stage will involve replacing both front and rear suspensions, and the necessary components to 'upgrade it' cosmetically. It will not be done with stock components, or stock appearances in mind - if it works, it fits, and i like it, then it is good enough for me.
At that point, i'll have pretty much all of the components to start concurrent work on the second 88cc CT70, based upon a '78 frame, and four motors that i have on hand in parts or whole.
Not directly related to this, but along the same lines, I recently got ahold of the descendant of the first 'motorcycle' i owned, which was a 1966 Honda C65 Cub. The call of nostalgia proved too strong, and a 1981 Honda C70 Passport came home with me recently.
I'll be collecting parts for this over time, with the mind of making it a clean runner project - but for now, it runs pretty good, and is currently put to use as a corner-store getter, since bicycling at this time is no longer an option due to physical issues.
Stay tooned..
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