November 22, 20187 yr Looks like a fun project I have had good luck cleaning tanks by filling them with a container of evaporust and a handful of old nuts and bolts....then over at few days of soaking and shaking things look pretty good.then flush with a solvent.I used to line tanks but no more. For the exhaust,no Chrome to damage ,get the pipe and silencer hot enough to start the carbon burning(propane torch) and leave it outside.....smokes and stinks and not neighbour friendly
February 15, 20197 yr Finally started getting RatTY put together. I have an engine now. Took these two tables of parts.......... And turned them into this:
February 26, 20197 yr Before & after pics. Just about finished. Some fine tuning to do and in time will re-chrome the fork tubes.
April 15, 20197 yr Got this TY early 2019 and went to work on it , did my first vintage trials this weekend and had a blast riding it. It preformed very good and I can’t wait to compete in a cupple weeks on it again. This is my first bike build and I had a blast ,
May 19, 20197 yr Just finished my ty50m bought it off a bike breaker and it had seen better days.. 1g7 Yamaha serial number puts it as a uk bike. 1977 im in the process of getting her registered for the first time. Hopefully! All the paperwork with the dvla at the moment so who knows!! any one else tried to register a similar bike for the first time? How did it go?
May 19, 20197 yr Just looked through all the posts.... i may have some more work to do there are a lot of beautiful bikes on here, fair play to you, real nice...... not many Ty50m models...are they few and far between?
May 19, 20197 yr On 2/26/2019 at 10:56 AM, Cheneycol said: Before & after pics. Just about finished. Some fine tuning to do and in time will re-chrome the fork tubes. The previous owner seemed to have something of a passion for ground clearance.?
June 19, 20197 yr On 4/15/2019 at 8:05 AM, Rockland213 said: Got this TY early 2019 and went to work on it , did my first vintage trials this weekend and had a blast riding it. It preformed very good and I can’t wait to compete in a cupple weeks on it again. This is my first bike build and I had a blast , Where did you get the alloy tank from? Beautiful work, almost a shame to put paint on it.
July 10, 20197 yr On 6/19/2019 at 4:22 AM, thai-ty said: Where did you get the alloy tank from? Beautiful work, almost a shame to put paint on it. I built the tank, I started off and was going to make a fiberglass tank and that is what is painted yellow and black. It is now just a cover I don’t run the cover since the aluminum tank turned out so well but I will if I ever dent the tank. The Yamaha on the aluminum is not a decal, that is sandblasted in there and then acid etched.
July 13, 20197 yr My RatTY 175 arrived like this: And it now Looks like This: There will be tweaks that happen for quite some time yet, but she can be ridden and enjoyed. And that was the goal.
July 16, 20197 yr On 7/11/2019 at 6:45 AM, Rockland213 said: I built the tank, I started off and was going to make a fiberglass tank and that is what is painted yellow and black. It is now just a cover I don’t run the cover since the aluminum tank turned out so well but I will if I ever dent the tank. The Yamaha on the aluminum is not a decal, that is sandblasted in there and then acid etched. Wow. Wonderful work! Kudos dude.
July 24, 20197 yr 22 hours ago, Junglejeff said: That sure looks great. I'm intrigued with the black shields/guards inboard of the footpegs
July 25, 20197 yr 3 hours ago, feetupfun said: That sure looks great. I'm intrigued with the black shields/guards inboard of the footpegs Just wanted to protect frame.It is cut from a thick black plastic potting tray with tin snips then cleaned up with sand paper.add almost no weight.
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