5/05/2011

The 1st working prototype


Notice that its still mostly 1968 parts, and still has stock muffler. The seat really started looking too tall, so I rebuilt it with new shorter foam, still looked too high and now it makes my butt sore!

Rough, Ratty and Ready To Roll! Tagged, titled, and insured . Now a street legal bike! Handle bars are actually for a bicycle, headlight bucket is a repro plastic unit for a 65 Honda s90 with the original speedo for the 68ct stuck in with a toggle switch for the headlight with orange high temp silicon gasket maker! Hey its what I had layin around.The tail light is a old plain round trailer universal unit that I drilled holes in the bottom towards the tag for night tag illumination. Exhaust is 1 1/2 O.D. out of head to 1 3/4  rear part with a turn down that has a very acute cutoff, really liked the way the tip turned out! It proved to be a bit obnoxious, sounded ok,,but a bit loud, so i cut of the larger pipe and made a 2 stage internal muffler baffle out of 1 in pipe drilled fulla 1/2 in holes plugged half way. One day the end of the kick starter snapped off at the swivel, so i welded a large short bolt to the end, more rat style.We painted the wheel hubs black one day, really looked better, the originals where discolored and pitted. The rear of the fender was just pounded until it was 90 strait up then trimmed to about 1/2 in, this is where I welded all the rear seams and re profiled the rear fender,,to match the arch of the now farther back wheel, that took 3 trys to get right! Again if i would have just cut a template out and layed  over and used it as a guide it would have been right the 1st time! But that would have ruined the whole feng schwa thang!
I had a copper bar laying around, made a nice light and tag bracket. Wrench in swing arm stands out nice.
Now that I know it will work,and I can get it legal, it will get refined!

5 comments:

  1. Amazing build! Your totally inspiring me to do something with my next Cub project. Did miss in the description up above what fork your now using?

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  2. The front fork now is from a 1975 CT90. I am thinking about changing it to a wider one as the front tire just fits by the boots that cover the springs!

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  3. did you have to change out the head tube to accommodate the CT90 or was it the same size?

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  4. It bolted right on no modifications.

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