Author Topic: I am enjoying this build so much I do not want to build her! (Read 2520 times)

Clean · « **on:** July 07, 2012, 04:30 PM »

I am enjoying the sourcing, restoration etc. for my current build so much I really do not want to build her up and end it!

1983 Kuwaraha Nova, looked like this when I picked her up:

Spen got hold of it briefly:

And now looks like this after a sprinkling of magic powder to the Frameset by SBD, Del's Decals, some collecting of parts, and a trip to the chromers for the bars:

Julian347 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2012, 04:32 PM »

Kuwies

Look forward to seeing it finished.

AKGOFF · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2012, 04:33 PM »

That's gonna look killer Rich

rad_pitt · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2012, 04:33 PM »

Looks like it's going to be a cracker Rich

hunterdubber · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2012, 04:34 PM »

Looking Good Cleany

Just put it in a glass box with a little hammer on the side " Incase of riding emergency"

,,,, if you don't want to finish it $:-\$

What did Spen do to the OPC

griff · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:21 PM »

aaaghh

painted frame and forks

touching concrete

thanks for setting off my OCD Rich

now make sure as soon as you've built it you turn it upside down so the grips and saddle are rubbing on the ground

nice bits BTW

hunterdubber · « **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:23 PM »

Clean · « **Reply #7 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:33 PM »

Quote from: griff on July 07, 2012, 05:21 PM

aaaghh

painted frame and forks

touching concrete

thanks for setting off my OCD Rich

now make sure as soon as you've built it you turn it upside down so the grips and saddle are rubbing on the ground

rick1970 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:39 PM »

awsome resto Ricardo dib dobs the two piece crank

Pooch · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:46 PM »

Nice!! Starting to think there's a bit of a kuwi craze going on at the mo.. I've just bought a laserlite and a minty black comlpete nova in the past few weeks

midschooljon · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:52 PM »

Get it built! This is going to look awesome, and there are plenty more out there to build when this one is done.

NORTY40 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:54 PM »

Looking good Rich

Got a Black Laserlite on the go myself , love a nice Kuwi

Spen's a fookin butcher though

rick1970 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:55 PM »

just trying to get my head round the sawn off crank

was the pedal seized ??

Badbaldie · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:56 PM »

looks great Rich , well the left hand side does , right side slightly scratched ?

will we be seeing her on RADTOR or M.K. ?

Clean · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:59 PM »

Quote from: Rick70 on July 07, 2012, 05:55 PM

just trying to get my head round the sawn off crank was the pedal seized ??

Totally. Welded in. We tried a lot of techniques / spanners / hammers etc. and the fooker wouldn't budge. The Crank was fooked beyond use anyway, and the spindles looked like the metal on a WW1 shipwreck up in Scapa Flow!

Quote from: Pooch on July 07, 2012, 05:46 PM

Nice!! Starting to think there's a bit of a kuwi craze going on at the mo..

I wanted one because where I lived as a lad people rode PoS, Burners, DBs or Kuwies, and that was about it.

Funnily enough I had never seen a Haro or SE Racing bike in the flesh until my return last year, and I had never even heard of Robinson or Torker!

I am convinced of the regionality of brands BITD; must have been a result of where the agent / importer was based.

Clean · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07, 2012, 06:00 PM »

Quote from: Badbaldie on July 07, 2012, 05:56 PM

looks great Rich , well the left hand side does , right side slightly scratched ? will we be seeing her on RADTOR or M.K. ?

RADTOR, Lennie!

Can't go to MK this year; up diving around the Shetland Isles for a week in August and with MK date moving back three weeks I am jiggered.

meticulous · « **Reply #16 on:** July 07, 2012, 07:08 PM »

looks like when you got it all it needed was a 'CLEAN'.....

pun intended!

In2 bmx · « **Reply #17 on:** July 07, 2012, 07:18 PM »

That's gonna look Ace Rich ...

The best tool for the job got the seat post out then ..

WINI · « **Reply #18 on:** July 07, 2012, 07:38 PM »

Beautiful richy lad!

Spen69 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 07, 2012, 07:40 PM »

Fookin NOS merchants...... Clean it, grease it, ride it...... ;-)

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #20 on:** July 07, 2012, 08:01 PM »

I like the way spen is so please of the feck mess he's made

looks like he's got the touch of a baby elephant

spen you sure you know what your doing ?

looks like it's gonna be a sweet build

Spen69 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 07, 2012, 08:29 PM »

Nope, been making this shit up for years Andy ;-)

We soaked that pedal in diesel, shocked it and nearly bounced the spanner through the winsow of my brand new motor before I got a new blade in my hacksaw and cut that opc off. It was minging though and not stamped or branded so not worth saving.....

And the seatpost? It had swollen over the 30 years it had been in there so I drilled it out with three sequentially bigger bits. But I still tried to save it first with all kinds of ideas. No luck.

I do like making a mess though and Rich hates getting dirty bless him.

Clean · « **Reply #22 on:** July 07, 2012, 08:32 PM »

Quote from: Spen69 on July 07, 2012, 08:29 PM

I do like making a mess though and Rich hates getting dirty bless him.

Errrrmmmmm.... my online name is "Clean"?

dordymush · « **Reply #23 on:** July 07, 2012, 08:38 PM »

get the stickers on it at least.
best bit of a build if you ask me

In2 bmx · « **Reply #24 on:** July 07, 2012, 08:40 PM »

Quote from: Clean on July 07, 2012, 08:32 PM

Quote from: Spen69 on July 07, 2012, 08:29 PM

I do like making a mess though and Rich hates getting dirty bless him.
Errrrmmmmm.... my online name is "Clean"?

Author Topic: I am enjoying this build so much I do not want to build her! (Read 2520 times)

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