Back to basics!

It seems that the tax man has been kind to me this year, with a nice little return hopefully making its way to completing the build.

In celebration, I decided to start tearing the bike apart again for sorting prior to performing the final finishes.

Engine Autopsy

Riding the CB250N "Cherry Bomb" has been a hoot, with a total of 9000kms being ridden over the last 6 months, rain, hail or shine. It is however, time to finally step up to more power, with my finally getting the hunger to start working on "Thor's Hammer" again.

I'm lucky enough to have some amazing support from the Sydney Cafe Racer crew, with a brains trust joining me on my engine autopsy. The guys included Darren Mllichamp, Nicky Steps, Bill Wallis, Grant Kaplan, Jordan Rodgers, Jordan Kightly, Nicolette Skobier and my brother Michael.

Thus the engine autopsy party was devised, with everybody lending a hand to tear the engine apart and diagnose what parts were required to perform a quality rebuild.

Thankfully it was in pretty good shape, except for the 5th pinion gear that had some tooth decay.

In case you hadn't noticed, I've discovered Instagram since my last post!

Cool Video!

G'day guys.

I thought you might dig a project that I was asked to be a part of titled "Stories of Bike".


It's a platform for riders, enthusiasts and builders to discuss what makes them tick. I see a big future for Cam Elkins, the project mastermind and producer.

I was lucky enough to be involved in the making of episode 2, hope you guys dig it.

Ghostrider

Having recently joined Roller Photography as an account manager and producer, Michael the owner and lead photography wanted to do something special and fun.

The result is the "Ghost Rider" pic you see below of myself with the "Cherry Bomb".

The goal is to spread the word to the fashion industry that we're experts on ghost mannequin techniques, whilst advertising agency creatives should be equally impressed with our technical abilities and creativity.

All in all, the image is turned out exactly how we'd planned. Cool hey!

Here's a link to the Roller Photography website http://www.rollerphotography.com.au/

"Cherry Bomb"

I'd been somewhat sidetracked by a second project!

I'd recently obtained my rider's licence in December 2012, with my feeling the need to ride asap.

The decision was made to get my hands on a cheap and cheerful runabout that I could gain experience upon, and then pass onto my girlfriend who also recently gained her licence.

I picked up a pig ugly Honda CB250N at the right price site unseen over 300klms away from me. So after one hours experience of riding a motorcycle I packed my bags, flew down to Batemans Bay and rode her back to Sydney!

For a complete run down of the  build log check it out here.  http://honda-superdream.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=rd&action=display&thread=5120

Here's some pics of the ugly turd from the sales ad.

 

Now, me, being me I had to tart it up quick smart. The beauty of the bike is that it is registered till August 2013, so I could simply tidy it up and ride without any dramas.

The challenge was set to build it asap, so after 21.5 days I present to you the "Cherry Bomb"!

I couldn't have done it in such a short time frame if it wasn't for the significant help of my grirlfriend (and future owner of the bike) Nicci, and my brother Michael whho helped my with direction, welding and painting in his workshop.

 

 

Here's a handful of pics of Nicci posing with the bike in it's current guise.

And finally here's some footage of it the morning I completed it getting a dyno tune. Final results were 20.76 hp at the rear wheel.

Now time to blast around town and get back into completing Thor's Hammer.

Rev it up!

"Thor's Hammer" in action.

Watch at 18 seconds it really revs up!

Merry Xmas!

Merry Xmas to all of you following my bike build journey!

 Concept, photography & re-touching: Smelvis Broholm

Art direction, set build, styling and cat wrangling: Nixie the Xmas Pixie Skobier

Talent: Rogue and Thor's Hammer

Coiled up!

Today I had the opportunity to tack a coil mount to the frame. AS you can see I need to be somewhat cautious when welding in a second story carpeted apartment!

Now I'm looking to see if there are any suitable cloth wrapped plug leads that are suitable for my Pamco electonic ignition.