Honda Trail 70
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Coming Soon K2 Mini
Trail Restoration
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Important Notice: Forward Air Has Raised Their Prices!!!!! What Was $125.00 Last Year Is Now $420.00 To Ship A Bike From Florida To Los Angeles
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We will take you through step-by-step as we transform this totally beat Mini Trail 50 into this beautiful blue 100 point bike! |
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I finished tearing this Z50 down today. I had a customer call and want to know why it was taking so long. I have five business' I run out of this shop and work seven days a week. I don't know why it takes so long. Anyway, I feel bad so here we go with the next one. Since the local body shop did not meet my expectations on the green Trail 70 I have decided to paint the 1972 Ct70 H and this Z50 myself. I am getting better at these restorations after my third one. I now put all the original nuts and bolts with the correct "8" markings on the head into one of my tumblers for a day or two to remove the rust and bring down some of the scratches. You will still need to have a Dremel® and a polishing wheel on a buffer handy to remove the big gouges. I have found out that if the bolt is rusty when you send it in to the cadmium plater is comes back re-cad plated , but it has no shine. So I will put a shine on each bolt before I send it in from now on. The nuts are easy, you can buy brand new metric nuts from your local Home Depot. The bolts with the correct "8" on the head are hard to find. |
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The aluminum I.D. tag on the front steering column can be removed with a small screw driver and a torch. Gently slide it under the rivet and twist it up to remove the rivet. It is very easy to tear it, so be careful and work slowly. Once you have the rivet up a little, take a pair of needle nose pliers and pull it out. Sometimes you can just pull it out with a pair of pliers without taking the chance of tearing it with the screw driver. Once out, get a plumbers torch and heat the steering column from the inside to get the glue hot enough to gently pull the tag off with a pair of tweezers. If you heat it up too fast & too much the I.D tag will get too hot and bake the black paint off. If you're wondering why we spend so much time on the original I.D. tag, it's because the reproduction doesn't have the serial numbers on it and it's impossible to put them on it. |
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These top two pictures are to so you guys who have your fork stop broken off can see what it looks like so you can weld another back on. We next sand blasted the frame down to bare metal and chemically stripped the gas tank as not to weaken it any more than 30 years of watered down gasoline that has been added. Next we used an epoxy primer to seal the parts. This new epoxy primer is far superior to what I used ina body shop 30 years ago. Regular primer will now work fine for any areas that need bondo or spot putty. | ||||
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The silver base coat was put on here before the candy blue. This is your last chance of making the painting surface as perfect as possible. I found a few more places on the tank and frame that I wanted to wet sand one more time. After wet sanding out a few more minor imperfections I will then paint the bike silver one more time before the final coat of blue candy. The sand paper I will use is 600 wet or dry. By now you need to switch to 600 grit to take the sanding scratches out from the 320 grit we used earlier. | ||||
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We bought both of these bikes off E-Bay. One was $500.00 and the other $600.00 with shipping. We recently sent the motors in for a rebuild and ordered $3,200.00 worth of brand new parts from our local Honda dealer. We figured we will have at least $3,000.00 invested in each bike before we're done. That's not including any labor or the air compressor, socket sets, wrenches, paint gun, and sand blaster we bought. I recently saw a fully restored 1970 K1 sell on E-Bay for $1,500.00. What a deal that was! |
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Update
This yellow Z50 is finished
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We have had many Z50 & CT70 enthusiasts want to know where they can get a bike restored. We have found Jan at www.monkeybike.com to do award winning restorations and sell bikes at very reasonable prices. Jan is one of the kindest and most helpful people I have found in the Mini business. If you would like to e-mail Jan the address is monkeybike@socal.rr.com . |
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Another Fine 1979 CT 70 With 939 Original Miles From Carl's Collection |
1977 2,200 Mile Bike |
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Trail 70 Carb Restoration |
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