old school jr50 rebuild

Ive noticed a lot of you guys like your older bikes well here is my first ever build, I swapped this old 1983 jr50 for a job about 8 years ago and it has been sitting since, my boys are getting big now so time for a spruce up, here it is the before shot
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/230...7769393688.jpg
I was originally going to rat rod it but now im glad I didnt, so I stripped it back, Added some paint and got some new forks from Ebay
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/3...1772241556.jpg
then had to make some pretty wheels, so from this
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3...0973721428.jpg
I made some heavy spokes then got everything powdercoated to this
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/5...8572162013.jpg
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2...4972571340.jpg
then Hunted around the interweb for guards and got some stickers made
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2...2169251063.jpg
then seat redone and some training wheels and she is a runner,
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/250...2176011864.jpg

having been through all this with my kids .. mate take the training wheels off it will only take a couple of goes and the will ride it without them

That is incredibly cool, your kids must be stoked

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Originally Posted by BANDITROD

having been through all this with my kids .. mate take the training wheels off it will only take a couple of goes and the will ride it without them

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but look at how much fun he is having, lol
he isnt even close to riding so the wheels are pretty much a stand for the bike, he cant even hold the weight of the bike yet, here is a pic of my older boys jr
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/2...3345051052.jpg

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here is my young bloke on his drz70 it has a full yoshi system and jetting to suit he is trying to learn how to do wheelies

click on pic