Archive for March, 2009

Z Wheels

Monday, March 30th, 2009

For this build, I went with 8 inch Jincheng 2.5 rim halves that I had left over from my monkey project and Honda 71 Z50AK2 hubs which I found on ebay.  In order to align the rear wheel with the CRF swingarm, I machined a 10.5-11mm spacer for the sprocket side and mounted the offset rim halves so that the wider side (valve stem side) was facing the drum brake.

Japanese Scooter Rally

Monday, March 30th, 2009

I purchased a GoPro camera not too long ago and thought this event would be the perfect time to try it out.  But, because it was my first time using the camera and wasn’t too familiar with it… I messed up and lost half the video!!  Oh well…