cheap thrills!!

[ozzy]

hi all,
i've just been promised my old cutdown pk frame back, no forks engine, bugger all!! but i'm over the moon!! it used to be a tidy'ish pk100s my brother had. he gave it me about 8years ago (my first scoot) and i had it in a few different incarnations and ended up chopping it and putting a px166 lump in. then about 4 years ago i sold the frame and abunch of bits to a mate, whos just given it back to me!!

here's how she used to look;



i think you'll agree an object of beauty and refinement ;D

i'm not really sure what to do with it, as i've spent every bit of cash i have on my v100 m1l... i really can't afford to spend anything on this at all... so i'm thinking modern vespa et forks/disc, some downhill bars with controls and lights scavenged from breakers/friends.. for the motor i'd kind of like to do somthing cheap but crazy, i've allways like the idea of grafting aircooled kart barrel on a smally.. those fixed gear 100cc karts make about 16hp+ and still have really wide powerbands... they usually have a bore/stroke around 50/51 and are roatry valve into the cases..... also i've seen complete engines including motoplat ignition go on ebay for about £40!! the frames cut so i wouldn't bother with a fan... and i have a very very cheap tame engineer at my disposal ;D ;D or i'd just like to do a real retro tune of old standard stuff, see what power i could get from a standard barrel and home made pipe...hmmm i dunno...

or i might cut every thing off it and make a spinter...

just ideas... this'll be very long term as i'm out of cash and we have another baby due week after next...

[breezer]

Just wanted to say ozzy, it was that bike that made me want a cutdown smallie.

Respect

[ozzy]

Jun 28, 2008 7:46:32 GMT breezer said:

Just wanted to say ozzy, it was that bike that made me want a cutdown smallie.

Respect

i'm flattered

what do you all think about speedfight forks?? i reckon that'd be cool, can get complete fork/wheel/disc for about 50 sheets on ebay....

[unreliablesc]

nice scoot ozzy ;D like it very much.

re. aut forks; go for it. just make sure you get some off proper scoot, a mate had some of a benelli 50 on his 221 monster, and problem was that they were off a moped, soft as hell.

If you get the forks of a piaggio/gilera you know for sure that the bottom bearing will fit, makes it a bit easier. I doesn't know what bearings the speedfights use.

[jonnysnatchsniffer]

are there any forks that go straight in ?

[ozzy]

Jun 29, 2008 12:25:39 GMT jonnysnatchsniffer said:

are there any forks that go straight in ?

really not sure.. i'm led to believe et forks go in with minimal fuss...

i've just won some speedfight forks, complete with wheel, new tyre, disc, caliper mud gaurd.. for £16!! i thought it was worth a punt, even if the scale is all wrong and they look stupid i can probably get the money back for them... i just like the idea of a leading link type fork on a vespa.. i've a mate who has done a couple of dubious sounding but succesfull auto conversions.. he cuts the top off the steerer tube, welds a piece of bar in and then welds the top bit of an old vespa steerer on.... sounds dodgy as hell but he's had a pair in a tuned 210 cutdown for about 8 years with no troubles... anyway, i'll probably call on his expertise

[peahead]

i remember following you back from wooly, in my car, in the pissing rain, doing about 80mph on that thing... rethpect!!

Your gonna need a new run around what with the new kid on the the way, so i say whack a baby carrier on the back, jobs a good'n.

[ozzy]

Jul 15, 2008 22:00:20 GMT @peahead said:

i remember following you back from wooly, in my car, in the pissing rain, doing about 80mph on that thing... rethpect!!

Your gonna need a new run around what with the new kid on the the way, so i say whack a baby carrier on the back, jobs a good'n.

i was thinking about mounting the baby seat on the wheelie bar.. or maybe just in stick it in the grocery basket on the frount..

[scooterslag]

Jun 27, 2008 22:35:45 GMT ozzy said:

hi all,
i've just been promised my old cutdown pk frame back, no forks engine, bugger all!! but i'm over the moon!! it used to be a tidy'ish pk100s my brother had. he gave it me about 8years ago (my first scoot) and i had it in a few different incarnations and ended up chopping it and putting a px166 lump in. then about 4 years ago i sold the frame and abunch of bits to a mate, whos just given it back to me!!

here's how she used to look;



i think you'll agree an object of beauty and refinement ;D

i'm not really sure what to do with it, as i've spent every bit of cash i have on my v100 m1l... i really can't afford to spend anything on this at all... so i'm thinking modern vespa et forks/disc, some downhill bars with controls and lights scavenged from breakers/friends.. for the motor i'd kind of like to do somthing cheap but crazy, i've allways like the idea of grafting aircooled kart barrel on a smally.. those fixed gear 100cc karts make about 16hp+ and still have really wide powerbands... they usually have a bore/stroke around 50/51 and are roatry valve into the cases..... also i've seen complete engines including motoplat ignition go on ebay for about £40!! the frames cut so i wouldn't bother with a fan... and i have a very very cheap tame engineer at my disposal ;D ;D or i'd just like to do a real retro tune of old standard stuff, see what power i could get from a standard barrel and home made pipe...hmmm i dunno...

or i might cut every thing off it and make a spinter...

just ideas... this'll be very long term as i'm out of cash and we have another baby due week after next...

looking through and found this piccy- i think I met you ozzy on the way back from wolly in 2004, I was on a black PK125XL and with a lad on a black PX disc, we bumped into you at a petrol station in Braunton on the Saturday