Ragged to Riches Part 2

Notes:

1. Took the bike completely apart and cleaned everything.

2. Painted the following parts with Hammertone: frame and swingarm. Sweet!

3. Rebuilt the forks and painted the fork lowers red to match the rest of our color scheme. We also painted the muffler-guard and the chain-guard red.

4. Next up was the mounting of the rear fender. We used our Gonelli/Bultaco replica rear fender and our Sammy Miller fiberglass inner fender. This replaces the molded stock fender with a cheap fender that you can break all to hell and replace again and again for 36 bucks! (The boss has come up with this idea and insisted that since this is our shop/trials-school bike and he has seen all of us ride, that we use this fender combo instead of our dead-on factory reproduction fender that is a hundred bucks. Granted we have not been able to break on of the repro units yet he figures that since he paid for it one of us would find a way to destroy it!)

Looking better and better all the time.
More to come.......

From Ragged to Riches

This is the story of a sow's ear that we're going to turn into a silk purse. As you can see this poor Yamaha TY175 has seen better days, both on it's wheels and off. The lower end of the motor was fine, so a bore job with new piston and rings freshened up the engine. We did not polish or powder-coat the cases at this time, we'll do that later when we have to take them off.

The remaining cosmetics left quite a bit to be desired as you can see. In fact, the camera makes the tank look pretty good....trust us it's not!

We want to make this bike look a better. So, we are going to add a little paint and a few cosmetic parts to see what happens.

Check back next week and see what it looks like.......

No Crimes Committed

Mr. Hart has a bit of a go in Saturdays section #7.

This past week-end some fifty-odd victims visited the asylum known as The Ranch at B&J for the 5th Annual Big Bartons Creek Trials.

They were greeted by the escapees from the big house, who are still at large after laying out sixteen highly technical sections on the picturesque rolling hills and creek at The Ranch. Saturday's eight sections seemed to be a bit less evil for all the entrants, while Sunday showed just how diabolical the minds of trials criminally insane Ginder, Parsley and crew can be, if the loop scores and facial expressions of the entrants are any indication.

Breaking away from our typical format where sections one and two are usually pretty easy, we decided to let's just go ahead and get on with it and get some points and get those feet on the ground! All the sections were designed with numerous line choices within each classes splits, and that led to some obvious confusion as to which line to ride was the better choice.

When all was said and done the comments heard were, "I can do that, I just didn't!", "Really neat and challenging, I had a great time!", and "So that's how you do that! Why didn't you show me earlier?"

Thanks to all competitors (victims) and scorers and spectators, we hope you all had as good a time as we did.

Also mucho Thanks to John and Jackie Hamilton of Pig-N-Pie Bar-b-cue for great eats all week-end! Check 'em out at the food court at Bellvue Mall.

The Crew at B&J

Next trials:
ITSA 2-Day December 3rd and 4th

Returning to the Scene of the Crime

This week-end the scene of the crime will be re-visited as the 5th annual AHRMA two-day national trial returns to Big Bartons Creek presented by B&J Racing and International Motorsports.

A group of ten known trials criminals descended upon the area around Big Bartons Creek and set about designing a devious trials to confound and confuse all entrants for the week-end, unbeknownst to them we caught them on film. The unsuspecting victims will find themselves amidst an array of technically challenging sections with moderate obstacles, and a killer loop ride!

Pig & Pie will be here again for catering. The best bar-b-cue around and breakfast sandwiches better than you can make at home.

Come on out and see us. For directions check out the link to B&J above.