Nice one Daz, fingers crossed he does not lob it 1st time out.

Is the front brake any better with the setup you are running.

Thanks for that .HaHa yes we did have a moment first time out! Hes under strict instructions to throw himself under the bike in times of trouble . Il try and upload a photo of the bike before we restored her.

If you look closely at the end of the bars one of the grips has had a hard life.

To be honest the front brake isnt any better than the standard ty set up but the forks are! This set up is one I had on my C15 until I entered scotland ,its a pair of fantic 35mm stantions in ty 250 twsh sliders but as the brace lugs were damaged I had them machined off and an adjustable brace fitted and a lug to accept a KT front hub, the only bit of un-period parts are the yokes they came off my air cooled gasser .

Edited February 7, 201313 yr by majdaz

Is the gas tank stock for that bike? If not,where did you get it? Sorry if it,s a dumb question,but I don,t know a whole lot about those bikes. One of my projects is a Hodaka 100 trials bike and I think that tank would be just right for it.

Thanks,Scot

I think it is an alloy mini majesty tank.

They are quite rare, usually about

your right it is an alloy tank but its an aftermarket one I bought off a guy in north yorkshire last year, hes retired and with a small gang of mates he does quite a bit with british and twinshock bikes including frame alterations and fabrications.

The original one was fibreglass but sadly time and modern fuel took its toll and I had to have all the innards removed and a tank made to fit inside the original shape, thats on the shelf for a future project.

Ive no idea if it will fit a Hodaka

OK,thanks majdaz.I might do the same and make a simple tank to go under one that is shaped similar to yours.

My unrestored 1978 348. Purchased it 4 years ago from someone who bought it new, put 51 miles on it and stored it for 31 years. AllI did was clean it up.

My unrestored 1978 348. Purchased it 4 years ago from someone who bought it new, put 51 miles on it and stored it for 31 years. AllI did was clean it up.

That's beautiful! Any more pics?

Here is a couple of pictures of my TY175 and 125 Hodaka trials bikes. JK

OK, educate me, what's a Hodaka/ Hojaka and do those rear shocks function at all, they're working through a strange arc?

Cheers,

Wayne

OK, educate me, what's a Hodaka/ Hojaka and do those rear shocks function at all, they're working through a strange arc?

Cheers,

Wayne

Explain young Wayne

Erm, I'll try:

The angle of that red meccano sub-frame, where the top of the rear shock attatches; it looks to be too steep for the rear shock to compress as it should, along the axis of the piston shaft?? without too much side load...if that makes sense?

Shock angle on the Hojaka is nothin',It's the crazy double steering head on the TY that gets me!

That is just an easy way to change the steering head angle without the need to cut the top and bottom frame tubes.I,ve seen some of his previous builds on the Strictly Hodaka site and they were pretty cool.This is not the first one he has built so I,m guessing that it works pretty good.

Edited February 15, 201313 yr by scot taco

That is just an easy way to change the steering head angle without the need to cut the top and bottom frame tubes.I,ve seen some of his previous builds on the Strictly Hodaka site and they were pretty cool.This is not the first one he has built so I,m guessing that it works pretty good.

Seems a helluva lot harder than cutting the backbone and adding a splice,I have seen it done on XT500 yamahas to convert them for Flattrack,but they've got oil in the frame that would complicate a backbone extension.

I just did a TY175 last weekend,easypeasy,added 1 inch to it.took longer to move the tank mounts back than to extend it.haven't got it reassembled yet,my bud who owns it immeadiately scored another really nice TY and he's been playing with that. I may just talk him outa all the rest of his ty stuff.