Some of my project bikes

So, here's a few of the bikes I've built recently for riding and racing and one special bike which lives up on the second floor of my house.   

1973 Honda QA50  start to finish


The first motor I built for it...


My 1980 Yamaha YZ50


1982 Yamaha YZ60 start to finish

Done

Those are bad ass man! Props to you for brings back such awesome bikes!

I love me a minibike.

Thanks. Fun hobby.

Here's my YZ490. I got three of them for $800. All in bad shape. I built one and sold off the rest of the parts to recoup the cost.

When I picked them up


Last summer first race. Bike is insanely fast!   

Wow, very nice.

Sweet to see a old bike lol. Back when i raced mx, I used to love when they had the bomber races. My buddy has an 1987 RM80, it has a cracked frame, missing plastics, broke down engine. So he uses it for donor parts

Here's my latest build.  It's not a restoration, but a race build.  I picked it up for a couple hundred.  See the hole in the gas tank?  That's a .22 cal. bullet hole.  Yeah, that's how bad the previous owner was!!!!

1979 Yamaha YZ125  As purchased...



And after my race build.  It needed every single bearing replaced, brakes, clutch, new flywheel, rotor, CDI and ignition coil, cables, levers, grips, silencer... and the list goes on. Also was missing the airbox and air filter, plus a bunch of little things were wrong with it.
I still need to do the suspension over, but I'm having too much fun with my tractor!    

I finally collected the needed parts to build a second set of wheels for the QA50. This set is for street only, but may also be used to race supermoto (on a go-kart track). The stock tires are 4.00 wide x 5.00 rim. It took forever to source tires for it since a 5.00" rim is so odd. A trip to the local airport rewarded me with a used set of tires off of a Cessna. They're 5 x 5's so a little bigger than stock and barely fit.... perfect! Plus they're rated for like 200mph, so I think they'll hold up.     

I built this bike for my gf about 2 years ago. We got a KX80 with a blown motor for cheap, so I sold the motor and related parts. I had an XR100 motor on the shelf so I built it to 132cc with some porting and a cam. The motor did not want to fit. It required heavy mods to the frame and gas tank to fit the taller motor. I made a plastic welder so I could cut the bottom of the tank off and make a plate for it since it hung too low.




Stock Tank

Welded modded tank

Plastic weld

Custom intake manifold etc...

Nice I have a 1999 cr 125, 2005 klx125. I just recently restored a 1963 triumph tr650ss im trying to sell it for 9 grand i have 4 into it. For my next bike project i have a 1975 xr75 to restore. I also have an 06 heritage and a rigid chopper with an evo in it that my dad built he got up to 140 at the radar runs.

That XR75 will be a great little bike. 140 is quick for a street evo. nice!

my dad built the evo as a drag bike i dont know everything about it but i do know that it has all the s&s intake stuff but yea im really looking forward to the xr