wild foamy

I want a husky dog!

Change of plan peeps, i have to be in work that week which f*cks up my holiday to Dorset, so i will be making my appearance at Squires for the weekend!. (on the FJ though... too far to go on the DT this late...)

Might have to check it out, im only over at Odiham so not the world away.

I've got the rocker cover gasket, brand new in the package. i've also got an alluminium swingarm, pair of 3XW wheels (ABS), the footrest hangers, forks with Hagon preogressive springs, handlebar switches, various odds and ends that ive kept.

Ive got a spare gasket if you want it, i bought it to do mine because i thought it was leaking but it turned out to be a snapped bolt in the head.

you can still buy the clutch slave cylinder pistons brand new on their own, its usually when they get rusty and pitted that it chews the seal up and lets the air in.

Nice find, same paint scheme as mine aswell!. I've got an assortment of bits left over from the FJs i used to break, so let me know if theres anything you need.

Theres an FJ1100 over here at odiham i need rid of!

This was two years before i was born... ... just saying, peeps.

well im just under 10st and it manages really well, want to chuck on some different sprockets to get more top speed, it tops out at just over 35, maybe 40 screaming its nuts off. Watch this space, im back home in a couple of days and I dont plan on leaving the little bike here...

Thats so f*ckin' creepy... :|

Wasnt that what the monkey said when he pissed in the sea?... I know when he shat off a cliff it was "a little goes a long way"

certainly goes well for such a little bike... http://vid1008.photobucket.com/albums/af208/wildfoamy/video-1436900952.mp4_zpsvyg9hof2.mp4

You'd be better off going for either a DT50, TY50, RD50 engine as they are the same cases. Alternatively, go for a DT80, TY80 or RD80 engine for more punch. I have spare big bore kit for a DT50 (think it takes it up to 65cc) in my wardrobe left over from when I rebuilt my '88 MX. Are you sure it's an RX50 engine if you can send over the digits from the engine number it would help narrow down the field, the RX and RD had much straighter head fins, yours appears to have a DT or TY head (and the curved kickstart) atleast.. Although it could be a hybrid of the two.

Plan A: ship it home seafreight in am iso container with a load if stuff through work, I am currently waiting on an answer from the people who deal with that to see if they will take it. Plan B: strip it down, take the non-hazardous parts back, ship the engine, forks and tanks back in a box (battery is toast anyway). Plan C: bury it in the desert in a secret location, sort it out next year when I'm back. Plan D: re-sell it on craigslist (booo!)

Ugh, massive spanner in the works!.. Can't ship it home air cargo as it's classed as dangerous goods because it's had fuel/oil through it... Need to get it on a pallet and ship it back, anyone know the best way to do this?

Ah right, that's the oil tank breather, it just hangs down and vents overboard on mine aswell

Not sure if mine is a different model, but I can't see anything going into the tank on the lower left... There are two rubber 'locating damper's which might be the thing you're holding?

It would be easier if you can send me a pic of what you've found, I've got a parts list book aswell which might help you

Yeah, the Turbo is still there, just very very much on the back burner... Part of my problem is I don't have space to store it when it's all up together, and I don't want to leave it in the car park :/ The DT50 and this chappy aren't so bad, they are small and light and I can tuck them up in the corner well out of the way.

I'm reluctant to explain the process, until it has actually happened. If you were a fly on the wall in just our teabar we'd all have probably been locked up by now!

I don't have to use it on the high street, handlebars folded down and even with my tiny muscles it fits in the boot of a rented chevy tahoe. have you ever known me to buy anything sensible?... the 'fun' part will be getting it registered, for the sake of this theoretical exercise, let's say that one day it 'disappears' from over here, and 'reappears' over there, without ever being on a ship, or going through a US or UK port. Registering it with the DVLA shouldn't be too much of an issue as I have its original registration certificate as proof of manufactured date, but before I get it registered I need to contact HMRC ( who will no doubt want to have a grab at anything they can get out of me, which is going to be VAT and import duties), now they will probably also want to see a shipping invoice or something (which I won't have, because it appeared by magic). I basically have a hand written receipt from the guy I bought it from, it's US registration and nothing else.

Most people go on holiday and bring back crappy souvenirs like t-shirts with "I <3 NY" on them, or a plastic version of the eiffel tower, maybe even a snowglobe with a tiny little castle in it... But I figured I may aswell bring back something I'd be able to have fun with. So, ladles and tablespoons, let me introduce to you... 'Tiny Urban Road Demon' It's a Yamaha LB80 Chappy, picked it up off craigslist from California, had the offer of two of them but due to space limitations on getting it home I could only take one, so I got the one on the right. needs a bit of TLC but runs decent enough, plan is to use it for getting around the airbase and local area back home, then give it the same treatment as the DT50 and strip, sandblast and repaint everything then maybe hang it on the wall or something.

Also, a massive thanks to everyone on here. I arrived here at 15 years old, I was a young foamy then, the beloved Donkey sat in the garage waiting for my 16th birthday, I passed my CBT and still had no idea wtf I was doing, I blew it up a couple of times and had to make the long walk home, threw on a big bore kit and blew it up again, learned about plug chops and carb jets, it carried me to and from my first base in my RAF career and without the YOC I probably would have given up and got a plastic moped instead or the dreaded public transport, but with the advice and guidance (and occasionally swearing) of you the members I have spent 7 long years with the group, met some truly amazing people and have some wonderful memories. The 'new' DT was a joint effort, the fork gators and one of the side panels came from members on here, and with much encouragement (boot up the arse after seeing the enormous flop that was my XJ Turbo rebuild) I was glad to get it back to the state it should be in, but at the same time enjoyed the time in the workshop, sandblasting every last nut and bolt that came off it. I will probably never ride it but that's not the point, I have FJs and Project FUCR for hooning around on, the point is that I have it, even pulling it out of the shed for the magazine photo gave me a huge smile and with my short attention span that's unusual. So yes, I owe it all to you guys, I've seen people come and go on here and am proud to say I have the best group of friends a foamy could ask for.

Morgan spiced and coke (or sailor jerrys). I'm partial to Mojitos in the summer, when it's sunny outside and I'm sat in a beer garden with a big pitcher full of the stuff... Makes a foamy very happy