Maybe this should be in the "other bikes" section? I'm sitting inside on a winter day (waiting for spring!) and perusing thru U tube when I came across a video of someone who removed the engine and front / lower frame cradle from a Yamaha IT 175. This was all replaced w/a 150cc chinese(Honda clone) engine. There wasn't much wrong w/the Yamaha engine, he just liked the 4 stroke better. I'm pretty sure it wasn't one of our GasGas friends; the footpegs were mounted backwards, the exhaust was beyond belief( it looked like it would boil the gas in the tank!), the carb was mounted directly to the engine- no spacer for vibration and subject to more heat, the airbox was pitched and a clamp-on filter installed and the engine looks like it would bottom out before the suspension fully compresses. Many years ago I crammed a Suzuki 100 engine into an RM 80 chassis. The RM 80 was free and the 100 I bought from my nephew for $35. It didn't turn out that well but it was a good bike for my daughters' to learn on. If they broke something or just didn't like riding, so what? I was wondering what anybody else had seen in the way of "hatchet-job" dirt bikes? Jim
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Well i'm hoping the franken-bike i'm building for my wife won't be called a hatchet job,so i'll tell you about it. She loves her crf230f, but it's sadly lacking in suspension and brakes, and it weighs at least 20=25 lbs more than my ec300. So i'm putting the sweet 230 power plant into a crf250r aluminum frame, lowering the suspension and puting a kick stand on for good measure.the total focus of this build is to give her what honda could be selling to a lot of people. A smooth,motor in a light weight frame with good suspension and brakes with a seat height of approx 34-35 inches. So far i've got the engine mounted in the frame,and now i'm fabbing up an intake manifold and airbox to carb feed tubes. I went to a kehein knock off carb that was shorter than the stock and it has an accelerator pump.once i get the carb mounted and running,the rest should be fairly easy.
i'd love to get my girlfriend onto a bike but she's not even that good with a mountainbike 
we were thinking about starting off with a yamaha TW125
big fat tires with low tire pressure so she won't feel too much of the bumpy underground (wich might upset her if she sees it)
anyway, keen to read what you guys have fabricated.
ciao, Hannes.
we were thinking about starting off with a yamaha TW125
big fat tires with low tire pressure so she won't feel too much of the bumpy underground (wich might upset her if she sees it)
anyway, keen to read what you guys have fabricated.
ciao, Hannes.
