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Looking good mate. You planning on doing the historic meet at Mac Park over new years?

Any time you want to come over and finish my bucket off for me, just give me a shout!! I took these photos in November 2006. It still looks like this.

aardvark wrote:Looking good mate. You planning on doing the historic meet at Mac Park over new years?

I plan on being at Mac Park along with a couple of Team 400 boys and Martin from Hyside Trading . Should be a hoot .
Sorry S%W back to Bling Buckets . com

Where do the rearsets go I hear you ask?
Note also the light weight racing "can"
Using common items found around the house, including a set of ZX9 Oberon pegs and the OEM ZX9 shift mechanism. Cant believe after 25 years they still used the same sized spline on a bike 9 times the size!

Your garage is toooooo tidy

Looks great mate.......does it go ????

top stuff wobbly!!!

lovely little bucket project... good to see someone fixing up the bike!!!!

could have at least used a better beer can tho

Dragged out a muffler that might go on OK if you want it . Need to weld a large washer onto the stinger and it can bolt onto it , like what I did to a KR . You got oxy at home ? Or bring the pipe up here . Will send a pic

the kid wrote:Dragged out a muffler that might go on OK if you want it . Need to weld a large washer onto the stinger and it can bolt onto it , like what I did to a KR . You got oxy at home ? Or bring the pipe up here . Will send a pic

Hope thats a pic of the muffler Bwee and not you todger

No Eweee just the muffler , isnt it great to think that S&W will soon be out on a bucket to play .
Mmmmm fresh meat

Well it has finaly come to fruition. Had a proper shake down / test session over the weekend. Passed with flying colors....Kind of. Should replace the shagged chain as it jumped the rear sprocket and made a bit of a mess that called a halt late in the day. Otherwise performed as expected.
Whilst there has only been mild work done to the engine it seems to work well with an increase of power from 6-8k. From its standard factory spec it is running a larger carb - VM25 - and a modified rg250 expansion chamber. I have opened out the transfer ports and matched the exhaust port. That is all.
The test run was completed on a Go Kart track and whilst this doesn't allow for supersonic speeds it was still a valuable learning experience in the way the bike operates and handles. Had previously done a few laps of my neighbourhood "under controlled conditions" but this was inadequate for true fact finding.
Once I work out how to upload video to you tube I will show you how it went.
Happy days

the kid wrote:No Eweee just the muffler , isnt it great to think that S&W will soon be out on a bucket to play .
Mmmmm fresh meat

Some 6 months later... wobbles returns

looks great, cant wait to see video

Team WOFTAM reporting for duty!

Looks GREAT Wobbles

Nice work mate

very tidy