eBay Finds - Walter Wolf RG500 on eBay right now!!

Looks awesome! A little more info (er, and more photos) would be nice though. Bike is in Canada, but Im willing to bet he would ship - especially at the price he's asking (almost 25,000 CAD) - woah.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Suzuki-Other-/321114613073?pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item4ac3ec2551#ht_500wt_1182

RG500 Walter Wolf - on eBay, right now. Only 24,500 CAD! What a deal ;)

Cagiva Mito 125 with RZ-350 Motor? Crazy Rz350 Hybrid...

WOAH!! Now this would be fun! I believe you can buy the mito 125 here in the states as a street legal bike.  Regardless - tell me that a 140 kilo (wet) - bike with a RZ motor wouldnt be a riot.

These fellas make a conversion kit for the Mito - complete with a CNC bracket to bolt the motor into the frame.
http://www.mito350.tk/products.php

And here is one of their projects...
http://www.mito350.tk/view_page.php?rsn=10

Another finished (and ultra sexy) - project using this kit... I want one.

RZ350 Hybrid - looks amazing

GT750 Cafe Racer BEAST

Check out this Hollanders CRAZY GT-750 Suzuki Cafe Racer TR-750 Replica. Insane! It might as well be a TR-750, and I bet its not far off. Looks like a lot of hard work and love went into creating this beast. I cant forget the 170mph 1976 Barry Sheene crash - where the monster TR finally bit someone hard... he was damn lucky to walk away from that with his life and limbs intact. I digress... onto the aforementioned GT-750 replica - here are some pics, and a video! Love that two-stroke noise.

crazy hollander - i guess it takes one to know one ;)

Radical RZ350 / TZ250 Hybrid

From the looks of it, coming along nicely! Checkout the dry clutch, the sweet aluminum frame courtesy of the tz250, and the r1 (or at least it looks like a r1) - front suspension, forks (ohlins maybe?)... for some reason carbon on tw-stroke bike chambers just looks so right. This guy has some insane fabrication skills.

Putting a rz350 motor in a tz frame was always one of my dreams. I just really, really dislike the look of the RZ frame and tank... it looks 80's - and a bit tired. I do understand that it functions perfectly fine, and stuffing a rz motor in a tz250 frame is a huge undertaking. still- for the fact that its going to look like sexy gp race machine when your done- isnt it worth it? The answer, to me, is yes.

I believe this is the original build thread, did the best I could to hunt down the italian original version. Looks to me like he is just welding up the expansion chambers, and fitting them in this thread though... hmm.

http://www.2t-special.it/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1223

If anyone finds the original please post it in the comments!

Now, with some proper plastics on it and a paint job, this tz250 / rz350  beast would really look rad. Not that it doesnt look good naked either...

Dry clutch --- mmm, reminds me of my 900ss!

Sexy RD400 Heads

After my last post, I just realized... those heads aren't painted, they are gold anodized... duh! And, to make it even better- I found the exact RG (albeit replica) heads the guy below used on his RD400!

UGH - ME WANT!!! http://www.hvccycle.com/Radial%20Heads.html

Too bad $500 is about what I could spend on a entire project two-stroke bike!

I guess, if heads can be considered sexy, I consider these basically bike part porn.

RD250 Two-Stroke Tracker

Sometimes I really like the look of the "tracker" style bikes. I'm not entirely sure I would actually take one off roading, but down a gravel fire road at 90mph? Sure- why not! This fella put a incredible amount of work into his rd250 street tracker project. http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=12857.40

I was really interested in the gauge he used as well, which is apparently from a company called electrosport. Looks like JEGs carrys a good selection of them.

He even welded up his own chambers for it, and by the looks of it did most of the paintwork himself! Insane. Good lordy I wish I had that much time on my hands (and $$$).

this rd250 tracker is done up right... looks the business.

I know the expression "more fun than watching paint dry" - and I got a kick out of this shot. That's actually not a bad makeshift baking oven there! Haha!

When the end result is a amazing 2 stroke tracker, watching paint dry IS fun!

Super Clean RD400 Restoration

Take a peek at this super clean RD400 restoration! Wow... I LOVE IT!! Check out the treatment on the engine - love the two tone look. Im not quite sure what pipes he is running but they look amazing to me. Wow... just wow. I would consider giving a kidney, or maybe a family jewel to have a RD like this.

Judging my this guys garage (with the RZ350 in it that I also want) - he has got some serious cash to toss around. That always helps with a restoration job doesn't it? What a fantastic looking rd, this is what a two-stroke restoration should look like.

UPDATE - I guess this is a 1977, but was repainted 1976 Geneva Green. Whoever did the paint did a amazing job. Apparently the Dyna ignition is a smart update for these bikes as well, since the stock setup sucked, and by now is pretty decrepit, crappy and generally poopy.

What do you think?

http://www.2strokeworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=10065.0

New Yamaha R6 / RZ350 hybrid!!

All I can say is... wow! This guy is on the ball - Im really looking forward to see what he does with this project. Rz350 & R6? Come on, thats like combining a olmypic speedskater with pcp junkie. Its going to be great.

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2798759190039640277LpssMk

Tell me this isn't awesome, and i'll tell you your crazier than a shite house rat. To me, this looks better than silky smooth polished dog bollocks.

EDIT - *** APPARENTLY WEBSHOTS IS DOWN!! *** Sorry for the inconvenience... I'll find a new rz / r6 hybrid for you soon - promise.

1985 RG500 Gamma - The Grandpappy

In 1984 Suzuki made a really good decision. They offered mere mortals a chance at living their GP dreams out on a incredibly dangerous motorcycle. The RG500 was first debued at the 1984 IFMA motor show in West Cologne, Germany to the chagrin of GP fans everywhere. A lot of people dont realize the RG500 also had a "mini-me", and no, its not the RG250. Its the RG400. A bike built specificaly for the Japan domestic market. In 1984, the RG500 with its square engine configuration, disc valves, aluminum frame, and floater rear suspension was light years ahead of its time. Man, I really need another 2 stroke... asap.


Specs:

RG 500 Gamma 1985
Overall Length: 2,100 mm (82.7 in)
Overall Width: 695 mm (27.4 in)
Overall Height: 1,185 mm (46.7 in)
Seat Height: 770 mm (30.3 in)
Wheelbase: 1,425 mm (56.1 in)
Ground Clearance: 120 mm (4.7 in)
Dry Weight: 156 kg (343 lbs)
Engine type: Water-cooled 498 cc two-stroke square-4. 95 hp (69.3 kW)/ 9,500 rpm, 71.3 Nm (7.3 kg-m)/ 8,000 rpm.

True Blue - RG500 Skoal Bandit

You know, if chewing skoal helps suzuki make more carbon framed GP machines, then sign me up. I have visions of myself with a wad of chew in my lip, and a rg500 skoal special between my legs - rocketing through a turn, tobbaco spittle drizzling across my cheek as I scrape my elbow pad on the asphalt.

Heres the blue color scheme of the bike I had posted on earlier. Ill stop my rambling...

The Supreme Bimota Vdue

Ha - bet you thought I was dead (or wished I was). Ive been hunting for a new job and finally got one, thus the utterly pathetic lack of posts. I apologize in advance. I wish someone would comment, even to say "Your a tool! Two strokes are dead! Get a life you oil huffing freak!" or something along those lines...

I always lamented the loss (and utter failure) of the bimota vdue. It seemed a bike with so much potential. Take for example the pics included above of the Evoluzione Corsa 2001/2003. This was the pinnacle of bimota two-stroke goodness, a 135 bhp firebreathing freak weighing in at 330.6 pounds (150kg) dry. Thats pretty much fast enough to tear your head from your shoulders when the powerband struck. Attached also are the specs (in italian - sorry). Of course, you werent supposed to ride this on the street - but the addition of two duct taped mag lights and trailer flashers could trick even the most astute fun destroying copper.

Even though this bikes electronic ignition system was a sack of soldered up poo, and the bike itself was a bullet to the brain of one of my favorite all time companies... i still like it. Just look at it, come on now.

Now, Im gonna start saving up for that Vdue - one dollar at a time... then ill buy one from vdue usa and put it in my living room until my wife kills me.

Its been a while...

...but I bring you tidings of great joy. Some bloke in merry old England decided to stuff a RD500 motor in a TZR250 chassis. I think its a fantastic idea - and I think youll agree. I usually use my kitchen for mixing drinks, burning things and washing my hair. This guy, uses his to create recipies of delectible two-stroke delight. Check out this page, I hope he updates it more frequently than I do this blog...TZR-RD500 Just click the "perspiration" link if you want to be astonished, and have a new appreciation for what you can cook up in the kitchen.

Yo Quiero - Yagiva

Are you sitting at home confused and troubled over your predicament? On one hand, you love your Cagiva Mito, lets say - your one of the true blue Americans who appreciates Cagiva cycles. You await the arrival of the Cagiva 500 Mito as if it were the coming of the messiah. Alas, you soon find that your beloved Cagiva is NOT a two-stroke road missile, but a husquevarna single equipped italian oddity. Sadness and despair quickly begin to set in - the questions race through your mind. "A single? Isnt that a incredibly simple design? Isn't there less stuff to break? Aren't they highly reliable?" The answers are all yes, and point to a extremely boring time. What you really need to do, is take that RZ350 motor you bought from your drunken friend when he crashed his Banshee into a tree --- and put it --- in your Cagiva! Its a mad scientist type experiment, and I applaud all the Dr. Frankenstiens who have taken the initiative to make this craziness happen. One company in the fervent iceland of Norway specializes in such kits, both for the 125 and 500 Mito. The kit supposedly works on all generations of Mitos and makes the fitment much, much less of a painfull affair. You must still do a wee bit of welding, but dont be afraid. Im sure you can find a welder to fit it up no problemo. Check out the mad Norweigan website for more info. Under the "products" tab is where youll find the kit. Yeah, it works on 125 Mito's too. Prepare to pollute in style, as never before.

The Bestest RG500?

I think so. I mean, come on - does your RG500 have a full carbon fiber frame, make 131 bhp, weigh 253lbs dry, and have a inverted White Power (woah - talk about a non-politically correct name for a company) suspension setup? No? Well, I dont even HAVE a RG500 - so your already cooler than me. The bike Im talking about is the Heron Suzuki XR70RV RG500. A bad mutha-shut-yo-mouth of a RG raced by Heron Suzuki of Croydon, England in 1985-1986 (one of the first suzuki importers in the UK). Their primo race maniac was Paul Lewis - an aussie bloke. Paul never really got to shoot champagne fountains at his friends, he placed a 25th in 1985, with just one point to his name in the 500 Championship. Still though, that is one point more than I will ever have. This bike just looks so fantastic with the full carbon frame and Skoal colors - a love it to pieces. Im gonna go buy some Skoal, and take a dip in the tobacco laden can of fun times. Im not doing it for myself though - Im doing it in memory of this great machine.

Oil - the Drink of Champions

Its true - whether 20:1, 50:1 or just dumping it in your oil injection system (you lucky devil) oil, is really rad and completely necessary for most all internal combustion engines. I ran across a interesting test on a ski-doo forum that was a ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) run down on some common 2-cycle oils. This isnt some dude with a mullet who tossed a variety of oils in his chainsaw until it exploded. No, this is far more scientific than that. It shattered my illusions regarding one of my favorite oils - and made my cry. Telling someone their favorite oil sucks is dangerous, it can lead to deadly violence or at the least, a fistacuffs. That said, heres the results:

Wear Properties of Fluid Lubricants
Falex Pin and Vee Block Method

ASTM D2670

This is a comparison of anti-wear properties of popular 2 stroke snowmobile oils. This is an American Society for Testing Materials test that is a lubricant industry standard. This particular test incorporates 500 lbs of pressure on a steel pin and vee block for duration of 3.5 hours. There is a 5-minute break-in period with a 300 pound load. The overall wear is expressed in milligrams of lost metal.

The Results were as follows

Passed (listed in order of effecitveness):
#1 BG Hi-Performance Snowmobile Oil, Part No. 784S (15.2mg lost metal)
#2 Bel-Ray MC-1 (47.8mg lost metal)
#3 Bombardier XP-SII (66.3mg lost metal)
#4 Polaris Premium Gold Synthetic (82.5mg lost metal)
#5 Artic Cat Synthetic APV (112.9mg lost metal)
#6 Redline 2-Stroke Racing Oil (144.3mg lost metal)
#7 Maxima Castor 927 (156.4mg lost metal)

These Products Failed to reach the required testing pressure of 500 pounds.
• Amsoil High Performance 2-Cycle Injector Oil
• Amsoil Series 2000 2-Cycle Racing Oil
• Artic Cat Extreme
• Bombardier Injection Oil
• Fuchs Silcolene Comp 2 Pre Mix
• Klotz Techniplate Snowmobile Oil
• Klotz Techniplate R-50 Racing Oil
• Torco GP-7 Two Stoke Racing Oil
• Yamalube 2-R Racing Oil

This Oil Failed 90 minutes into the test.
F- Motul 800 Factory Line

This Oil failed 100 minutes into the test.
F- Polaris Premium 2-Cycle

How Expansion Chambers Use the Power of Rock

Did you ever wonder how you totally got your world rocked by Poison at their concert? It was likely the cheap beer you drank, and ganja - but just maybe it was the *soundwaves* dude. Now stay with me here. The same waves that make your face hurt from standing too close to a garmongous speaker at a concert are highly important in determining a 2-strokes performance. I was not aware of this - maybe you already know these mysteries of sound. Too bad, Im going to tell you anyway. The waves that rockout of the combustion chamber actually assist in removing out spent gasses - and then sucking in clean air. Like Bob Marley attacking a doobie, a well designed chamber can actually suck more air in to the cylinder and thus *charge* it. A virtual supercharger if you will. The key is the timing that these waves occur in the exhaust. Just as if the drummer for Def Leopard was totally off - the band would have sucked. The same applies here. What controls that timing, is where, and how much the exhausts diameter is increased, decreased, or kept consistent. That's why you've got that "belly" in your exhaust. Its actually where the timing between the negative and positive waves are adjusted. The length of the chambers also effects where the powerband is - generally longer chambers are going to move the powerband to lower RPMs. Now that my head is ready to explode from all this madness. In the end, the most rockin design for your bike depends on the tune of the engine, carbs, porting, etc. Expansion chamber design is a art - best practiced by someone other than myself. Im gonna go crack a PBR and air-guitar like a superstar. Keep on smokin'.

New Header - Same Blog

Just a heads up - I didnt want to disconcert anyone by rocking the boat with a new header design for the blog. I was bored OK, tired of eating dry cereal from the box and stepping on my cat (on purpose), so I decided to do a little design work. Hope you like it - and I hope you at least find this blog entertaining, if nothing else.

Tell me - this isnt the bollocks... and Ill tell you, your full of malarky.

(Just to get you drooling - theres more pics on the site)
A pal-o-mine pointed me in the direction of this fantastic Japanese custom shop. Now, before you get all misty eyed because they aren't in the USA - relax. Use the fantastic rolling pieces of art they create as inspiration for your next money sucking, relationship straining project. The company in question is Kaminari Racing. The site is in Japanese, because they are in japan this seems logical. There are though, many pretty pictures for you to gaze upon, and you can figure the site navigation out - I know you can... your smart, and dead sexy to boot. Just look at the care and craftsmanship (not to mention the parts) on this redeux of the "widow-maker" H2 Kawasaki on their site (heres a link). My head spun with ideas of cafe racer type H2 projects, and I cursed myself for not buying the 500$ H2 500cc by dads buddy had for sale. Damn me, and damn this persistent lack of pieces of paper graced with Ben Franklins chubby face. I digress though - Kaminari is Kamaradical... check em' out. Hopefully (cross my fingers) Mr. Kazuki responds to my request for a short interview that I can post up on this blog! Until then... keep smokin' and check these hep cats out.

RS125R (Or, big fun on little bike)

I really want a RS125. Let me tell you why this thing is the ultimate learning tool/track funtime party vehicle.

1. It can only be ridden on a track - where you can learn - with ambulences near by, no trees around, and no drunken, texting, burger munching drivers to destroy you.

2. The thing weighs a scant 158 lbs dry. Lets put that in perspective... a new CBR 1000 RR is 388 lbs dry. Thats a lot more. Add a fat turd of a rider, and gas and your talking nearly 600+ lbs. Ha, I say!

3. The RS125R from HRC includes mucho spare parts - i.e. pistons, clutch components, seals, bearings, and much more. Seems like its enough for at least a couple seasons. Ive never raced one though, so I cant say.

4. It looks GP-alisious.

From what I have heard the gearing on these bikes is very important to success in racing venues. There is a list of suggested setups here. Also, rider position has huge effects on the bikes behavior in a turn. I would really like to learn how one of these feels on a real track. If only I was a trust fund baby, I would race my days away on one of these, to a happier place, filled with that blue dream-mist of joy.

Since HRC USA doesnt like me - here are the specs!

Model name: RS125R
Type: JR01
Total length × width × total height: 1,800mm (70.9")×570mm (22.4")×995mm (39")
Wheel base: 1,215mm (47.8")
Road clearance: 110mm (4.3")
Seat height: 700mm (27.6")
Caster: 23°30'
Weight: 71.5kg (semi-dry) (158 lb)
Engine Type: Water cooled two cycle one cylinder
Total cubic displacement: 124cm3
Bore × stroke: 54mm×54.5mm
Max Output: 32.3kw/12,250rpm 44ps/12,250rpm (43.4 hp)
Max Torque: 24.5Nm/12,250rpm 2.5kgf ･ m/12,250rpm (18 ft lbs)
Carburetor type: PJ38 (TH sensor & Pwj you attach)
Ignition system: Digital CDI
Transmission: 6 speeds
Clutch: Wet multiple plate
Fuel tank: 14 liters (3.7 Gallons)
Lube capacity: 0.5 liters (.53 qt)
Frame type: Aluminum twin tube
Brake Front: φ 296mm single disk • Rear:φ 186mm single disk
Rim size: Front 2.50-17inch • Rear 3.50-17inch
Suspension Front: Inverted type telescopic • Rear: Swing arm system

My olde RZ

OK, this isnt my RZ. Its someone else's totally rad RZ, with a Spec II fairing. Doesn't it look cool? Mine had lots of safety wire, spray paint, and a cracked fairing. You guessed it - the poor bugger was a race bike. A used and abused slag, ridden hard and put away... well maybe not wet, but tired and abused. I had purchased it from a righteous dude for $1,000. Apparently, he couldn't get it to "rev up". Being a mechanically inclined individual I decided to take a peek. What I found was the most horrible terror of all possible repairs, one that sent me reeling into a state of panic, the throttle cable had come loose from the carbs. I laughed, grabbed my tools and tightened it down. Kicked her over and spun up to 10k on my favorite twisty road - albeit on a totally non-road legal/worthy bike. Still, it was a happy day. If its one thing a dutchman loves its a deal.