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Re: First attempt at spray painting with a GP cutdown
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:50 pm
by Bones
Hey mate,
Thats a good job you've done there.
Quick question for ya...........how long have you had that frame/vega leggies for?
Did you buy it from Oxford?
Keep it up it'slooking good!
Bones
Re: First attempt at spray painting with a GP cutdown
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:57 pm
by TheSeeker
Bones wrote:Hey mate,
Thats a good job you've done there.
Quick question for ya...........how long have you had that frame/vega leggies for?
Did you buy it from Oxford?
Keep it up it'slooking good!
Bones
Hello Bones
I've had it ten years now. I bought it at the Tenby rally in 2000, from a policeman from Nottingham.
Ben
Re: First attempt at spray painting with a GP cutdown
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:15 pm
by Bones
10 years! Wheres it been in the loft!!
I only asked as it looks real similar to a frame I sold to my mate from Oxford.
Would love to see a good pic of the exhaust if you could!
Cheers
Re: First attempt at spray painting with a GP cutdown
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:28 pm
by storkfoot
It's looking good, mate. Was the spare wheel attached to the Vega leggies, or the frame?
Re: First attempt at spray painting with a GP cutdown
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 3:09 pm
by TheSeeker
storkfoot wrote:It's looking good, mate. Was the spare wheel attached to the Vega leggies, or the frame?
Hello Storkfoot
The spare wheel was on one of those holders that bolt onto the legshields. I did a lot more riding on my S3 Li last year so put it on there. I don't think I will put it back on this scoot as the Vega shields are thinner and they don't have the support of the horncast etc.
Some more pictures from this weekend. I bought some fuel pipe, did all the wiring and filled my jerrycan with Super 98 but the kids just fell asleep so I can't try kicking it over.
All I need now to get back on the road is a second gear cable.
Best regards
Ben
PS Bones the exhaust is a JL3 Curly. (JL Road KRP3 Curly from Scooter Center). It spent most that time in my parents shed in Porthcawl.
Re: First attempt at spray painting with a GP cutdown
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:50 pm
by storkfoot
My similar project should hit the road sometime this year. I was toying with the idea of fitting a spare wheel carrier by welding a bracket arrangement to the frame, really to add a bit of weight to the front, to try and stop it pulling wheelies all the time
What stand have you fitted, Ben, is it a Vega one?
Paul
Re: First attempt at spray painting with a GP cutdown
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:37 pm
by Dazza
Blimey - I've just noticed the number plate and thought I'd recognized it - read a bit further back and saw you bought from a guy in Nottingham - I think this may have once belonged to a mate of mine from Newark (20 miles or so from Nottingham) are there any clues on the log book?
Re: First attempt at spray painting with a GP cutdown
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 8:18 am
by TheSeeker
Dazza wrote:Blimey - I've just noticed the number plate and thought I'd recognized it - read a bit further back and saw you bought from a guy in Nottingham - I think this may have once belonged to a mate of mine from Newark (20 miles or so from Nottingham) are there any clues on the log book?
Hello Dazza
Unfortunately I don't have the V5 any more. I had to give to the Belgian DVLA when I imported it here. I do have a receipt from the seller and I made a mistake, he was actually from Ledbury near Hereford (maybe he worked in Nottingham). Some interesting paperwork, old tax discs, certificate from the LCGB and what looks like a reproduction Innocenti "Certificato D'Origine".
Paul, the stand is a normal series 3 one. A bit wide now but I don't think anything else would fit round the exhaust. It had a side stand on it when I bought it but it wasn't in the right place so I cut it off.
Waiting for it to stop snowing to try the engine.
Best regards
Ben
Re: First attempt at spray painting with a GP cutdown
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:20 am
by TheSeeker
It starts!!! F*ck yeah!!!!! I built an Imola!!!
24th kick, I forgot to switch the ignition on and flooded it. Then when it did start it went off like a chain saw as the throttle cable was way too tight.
Forgot to close the back door too, the house is full of lovely two stroke smoke. The compression feels a bit high as it's quite hard to kick.
Cup of tea to celebrate.
Ben
Re: First attempt at spray painting with a GP cutdown
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:04 pm
by shocky
TheSeeker wrote:It starts!!! F*ck yeah!!!!! I built an Imola!!!
24th kick, I forgot to switch the ignition on and flooded it. Then when it did start it went off like a chain saw as the throttle cable was way too tight.
Forgot to close the back door too, the house is full of lovely two stroke smoke. The compression feels a bit high as it's quite hard to kick.
Cup of tea to celebrate.
Ben
nice moment when it starts up makes you wanna give it a test ride . my last one never had any gear cables fitted so i knocked it into 2nd and bump started it then went round the block