my first ever scooter build. cagiva mito 125 engine

[Bifter]

Love it !!!!!

[tonydevon]

rims are billet monkey bike 10", running 130 rear and 120 front tyres

hopefully got a shock setup for the rear sorted, and sold my beloved leather jacket last night to pay for a pair of shocks for the front.

got family over at the moment so cant go out in the garage, as much as I want to!!!

exhaust should be finished this weekend, and going to start mocking up radiator mount so I can get started on the cutouts and some form of venting/louvre look in the legshields.

have front and rear brake calipers already, got hand controls, probably going to go with foot change as I want the bars to be more bike style.

I have decided to jack it up a bit, probably going to ride about 1-1.5" higher, Im quite long in the leg and like really thin seats. will also create more lean angle availability, but easy enough to drop it down if it looks wrong once its up and running.

the original dream was something that basically had the GP silhouette and proportions, but with modern running gear and touches.

[slidingdog]

lookin good!
I almost started a cagiva engined S2/gp! but things changed, ... but now lookin at yours! the engine sits nice!

[tonydevon]

the next project is a S2 LOL, I want a lammy GP, a bike engined GP in racer styling and a 4 stroke auto engined S2 (hotrod taildragger look), decided to let fate decide what order they occured in

the GP loop came up first, so it was decided.

the loop is untouched, I do really wish that I had the money to have started with a proper frame, then just cut it about, would have saved a lot of headscratching, but such is life, I looked and frames are £350ish, I got the loop for £100, and made the front section, headstock, bearing cups etc from scrap/what was laying around.

[tonydevon]

ok, so didn't get much done this weekend, wife working so had our daughter, and today was carnival day, so it seemed rude not to sit out in the harbour with a pint in hand watching the fun

I have fitted some front suspension, its way too stiff, but they were free and at least give me something to build around. 280mm eye to eye, so once I got the money I will buy some bitubo ones that will do the job properly

now all sat at its final ride height. rear suspension yet to be sorted.

this week I will get on the lathe, make all the spacers for suspension and wheels etc.

[Elite-225]

Cool !

[RICSPEED]

btw did you use taper head bearings in the end ?

[tonydevon]

Yes. top and bottom. no point making all that myself and fitting rubbish old balls.

original basics of my design was that it should look fairly standard. but with modern running gear. hence disc brakes front and rear. taper race headstock bearings. modern electrics and lighting. Engine with electric start. trying to keep the italian thing going so brembo calipers and cagiva engine.

oh and all on a budget too lol. i still reckn that in a basic paintjob i can have it finished for less than 1000 quid.

[Bifter]

One thing i often wonder when people do lc conversions is why more people dont use the rads from a honda firestorm as they are fitted sideways so should be easier to blend into a scooters shape

[tonydevon]

do you mean so that you run 2 seperate rads, left and right, bit like motorcrosser setups?

that would give a cleaner slimmer setup, and as you say they could be angled so that they fit closer to the legshields, will keep an eye out for them, but I landed a TDM850 radiator with cap and slimline fan, paid £5 delivered for it from ebay

was going to hide the rad under the floor originally, still not too sure about that though, the extra rideheight that I have added was to help with that, and then fit a legshield fuel tank.