HarleyRacers land of misfit toys

[harleyracer59]

Hope all is well with every one. Found a quick flip and released another misfit scooter into the wild.
This one was a 1985 aero nb50 that I found on offerup for $50. I picked it up. Brought it home. Washed it 2x. It was that dirty. Rebuilt the carb. Swapped out the ignition switch with one I had keys to. Only the ignition switch on these bikes are actually keyed. The rest are dummy locks. Replaced the battery and modified the rear lights with a yamaha tail light mounted between the rear turnsignals and deleted the rear rack. Came out very clean I thought. To get it back to bright and shiny. I used a secret trick learned from an old used car painter to shine up paint. Ready for it? Used motor oil. Yes. That’s correct. I’ve used it in numerous situations on multiple vehicles. Take a red shop rag dip the edge in the oil catch can. And rub it into the plastics. Rub it till no oil residue is left. And it’s just a clean shiny piece. Works on weatherstripping too. Any color plastics. I’ve used this trick on my red and white Dj1 plastics with no staining are changing of colors. My whites are still white and reds are still red. Might need a second coating in 2-3 weeks but even if left outside in the sun. The plastics stay shiny and don’t fade for months.
After cleaning it up and servicing the scooter and replacing a few items. I sold it for 800$ a day later on OfferUp again. New owners first scooter. I gave him a helmet and a gas can with the scooter. And gained a new satisfied customer. His friend gave me his number to ler him know when I have another scooter to sell. Here’s some before and after pics of the one I nicknamed pigpen. Due to how dirty it was. Lol.

[harleyracer59]

While I’m here. I figure I’ll post a few pics of the used to be orange tacky aero and the dj1. Still waiting for and exhaust int the aero. And I finally got the wiring finished on the dj1. Installed the cvt and belt. Mounted a 20mm delorto. Still need to hook up the y part of the throttle cable though.










And here’s the dj1.

[jbjhillbilly]

Good lord! The Tact is so weird looking. It’s cool in its own way, but it’s hard to imaging the amount of drugs being done in the design studio in Japan where everyone went “Yup! Perfect.”

[harleyracer59]

Since i hadnt posted in a while. thought id add a couple misfits to my build thread...
a few posts earlier i told the story of a neglected 85 aero that i saved and brought back to life. it was a dusty old scoot that was forgotten, i cleaned it up tuned it up and sent it on down the road to a new home.
i try to keep in contact with people that buy my scooter, incase they need help with a repair or even get tired of them and are looking to get rid of them. im a hoarder and if price is right ill brig them back or even middle man them to another good home.
well the owner was having an petcock issue that i helped him diagnose. he sent me some pics of its new look that he gave it and i was pleasantly surprised and impressed. he JDM'ed the shit out of it. he even painted the helmet i gave him to match. other than the jog tail light that i put on it i wouldnt recognize it. i get a kick out of the lives some of these scooters have, if only they could talk. the storys they would tell.. check it out.

from this


to this







to this..

[aeroxbud]

That's some makeover. 👍

[harleyracer59]

while surfing the interweb looking for deals, i found an 89 RS camaro T tops, V8, 5 speed, with 82XXX miles at a pretty good price. contacted seller went and looked at car, pulled the trigger and that brings us to the next misfit to add to my files...
instead of me paying for the camaro, i got the car and a little cash in my pocket for doing motor mounts on a wicked cool late 70's chevy G10 van and getting a bad ass trike chopper back running and on the road.
the trike was a mid 50's harley servi-car frame with a 12 over girder/springer fork, spooled 21" front wheel, 15x14" wide wheels out back wearing some old ass poly-bias good year tires flamed paucho gas tank, with a funky king and queen seating arrangement, with a custom mounted honda CB750 engine with 4straight pipe exhaust that hadnt been registered or running since 1990....
wiring was fucked spaghetti motor waqs frozen and brakes were froze and mastercylinder was missing. good news was customer had a doner CB750 to strip for parts.
ended up pulling the motor and wiring harness out then replaced the siezed engine and ran the stock new harness made a bracket to mount the key up on handle bars. gutted the old wiring harness box and made it in to the battery tray. replaced the round headloight with an old square one from my parts stash. because it looked period correct and the round one was missing the bulb retainer.
carbs were packed solid with varnish sludge. had a hell of a time clearing the idle and choke circuits. but i got it. had to drill the push in idle jets a size bigger than they were stock. swapped main jets from old carbs to new ones. it starts and idles great. pulls the front tire if you dump the clutch. crazy fun bike to fuck around on. i rode it around a week before guy picked it up. to test and work out bugs of coarse. lol owner knew and was ok with it.
had to completely build the brake system. i used a willys jeep master cylinder. made brackets and bent new lines because old ones that were there were rusted solid. had to rebuild the wheel cylinders. used a middle finger LED tail light i had in my stach of cool shit. i really liked this misfit. so i was a bit faster to offer some of my cool shit up to customer. only problem was while showing him stuff he spotted my 48 pan shovel chopper that was under a tarp. now hes bugging at least once a week if and when im gonna sell it to him.. idk i guess we will see.
i got a lot of satisfaction getting this antique back on the road after being forgotten for 30 years!!
future plans involve mounting some rear fenders, and redoing the seating arrangement. ill post some more pics when she comes back.

[harleyracer59]

Here’s the fenders we’re thinking of using. And a quick pick when I rode it to the parts store for a few things.

[aeroxbud]

I like that. It looks like a right Frankenstein creation. 👍

[milly]

Nice looking trike.The shovel head you have got under the tarp you might just as well wrap it round the Harley fully and pop it into the post to me to finish off 😊

[jbjhillbilly]

Nice fixer on the trike! But that seat looks like it’s made for stargazing, not for riding. I’d get a crick in my neck after 20 mins on that!

[harleyracer59]

Yeah. I’m not a fan of the seat either. But it was a hell of a lot more comfortable than the flat steel plate I was riding around on.
So the slow boat from Italy finally got here. And I finally had some time to work on my poor little small frame. About 4-5 months ago I wanted some McDonald’s breakfast so I hopped on the Vespa. And when I got down the street it shut off. I knew it had bad crank bearings but it restarted. Got through the traffic light was shifting to second and it shut off and locked up this time. I had to push it back home. Come to find out I had snapped the crank on the flywheel side. Well that wasn’t repairable lol.
So I started researching cylinder kits. I liked the malossi but like everyone else. I wanted more.... so I dumped a chunk of change on a parmakit 144 wforce red devil cylinder with direct reed intake. A parmakit stator with 1.5kg flywheel. A bmg 54mm stroker crank with 105 con rod. A fabbri racing clutch and straight cut primary gears. Along with a bunch of other parts for the rebuild. New shocks. New SIP digital speedometer. Shipping was $140 if that tells you how big the box was. It’s almost running. I’ll post some more pics of the build progress though.

[harleyracer59]

had a lot to cut on the cases to get the new full cheek stroker crank to fit. there was a 1.5mm lip om the side with the crank case intake sealing pad is. had to completely remove it. so no more case mounted intake for this engine. oh well. this is my second cylinder on this engine and both have been direct induction. i cut this all by hand with a drill and a dremel. used dummy bearings to check mark high spots then cut then check again and repeat till i was happy. took a bit of time but it came out pretty good.

heres a pick of the aftermath that necessitated this build. dont think this crank is good for anything else other than a paper weight... lol

[harleyracer59]

Here’s the old crank.

[harleyracer59]

Happy Early easter y’all. I’ve been working my ass off haven’t had time to post. But I’m still riding my scooters and Harley’s at least 4x a week to stay healthy….
I’ve let a few of my misfits out into the wild, I’ve brought a few back to life. And seemed fitting to post the newest misfit to the fleet. While I was surfing the interweb yesterday I found a deal too good to pass on. I got a rabbit for Easter. A 1967? Fuji rabbit 90. All in pieces with a fresh powder coated frame swingarm and forks everything else is original. Even the 2 stroke motor that has a seized piston. This thing is a big puzzle with no instructions and parts made of unobtainium. Rumor I read is that All of the company’s tooling was bought by my the government and dumped into the Tokyo bay as a footing for a man made island. I was sold on that crazy story and this ugly misfit that second. Anybody have any info, exploded parts views or other awesome stories on these things? Here’s a femme pics of it ad what they look like as a whole. Tell me they ain’t the coolest fugly scooter you ever done seen?

[harleyracer59]

Here’s what it and its ugly big brother look like all put together.