Thursday, 2 January 2014

Just add Rotax


A friend of mine has the above Rotax powered KTM enduro bike, about the same age as my GPZ, and a lot better condition.  He's had the engine out for a while, and recently asked if I could give him a hand putting the engine back in.




 As the engine went in, more bits of the bike had to be removed to make it fit, sort of a chicken and egg thing going on.

Cook 3 trays of sand at 180 degrees celsius for 1 hour, pour into stainless tube, and form.
Fin.

2 comments:

  1. They were a great donk in a pretty well designed frame, sweet.

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  2. The only pain in the ass was that the kickstart and drivetrain are on the wrong side. I had an ex army despatch bike, a rotax powered Armstrong MT500, the kickstart was on the left, but I could only kick it with my right foot, very strange.

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