11-22-12

This week I bought my new motorcycle to redo for my project. Other than that nothing else has really been happening. I have been really busy and haven't had anytime to work on it because my family is in the process of moving. I don't really know how far im going to get on this motorcycle in the little amount of time i have left. Hopefully i can at least get it running i know i wont have enough time to do a full restoration on it before the project is over but ill hope for the best.

November 15

Unfortunately I'm going to have to scrap the ts 125 idea and begin a new motorcycle due to cost and unavailability of parts. i am pretty sure that i have a new bike lined up from one of my dads friends that i am going to buy. It is still going to be a Suzuki just a more common one that will be easier to find parts for. I'm almost sure it is a Suzuki 100 but it a street bike more than an off road bike. Hopefully everything works out and i get the bike.

11-08-13

So last week i went to the auction that i have been talking about for almost the last month. i didn't end up being the best me and my dad went to it but it was on a rainy day. it was all muddy out and we didn't stay for long. there wasn't even a lot there probably because of the rain. i found no parts so it was basically a waste of a day. I don't really know what im going to do now i am missing parts and i cant do anything until i gt them and im running out of time. so my project is looking pretty bleak as it sits today.

tomorrow is my auction that i have mentioned in my last couple posts. I hope to find some useful parts for my  motorcycle so that i can get somewhere on it. if i don't then well..... that's not good. My only other option is to possibly find a parts bike at a junkyard but i wouldn't even know if they had that exact bike. so hopefully tomorrow i can find the parts so i wont have to do that.

10-25-13

This week was a really slow and depressing week for my project. I Have found almost all of the parts that i need online to put it back together. Unfortunately though these part are gong to cost an excess of ...well lets just say a lot of money. So basically now i have make this amount of money or somehow find these parts cheaper which is extremely difficult because the parts are so specific. But through all of the disappointments there is hope for my project.  Next week Nov 1 and 2nd is a auction for all kinds of things related to motorcycles, snowmobiles etc...  i hope and pray to find even some of these parts a little cheaper so i can put this bike back together.

10-18-13

this past week i learned that an upcoming motorcycle auction/ show is going to be relatively close by to me. The show is  called A1 and it features a ton of motorcycles and basically anything with things a motor. I hope to buy most of my parts for my ts125 at this show. im going to need a left side clutch cover which i have found on eBay but they are very expensive and i need two know tires and a couple other little things. once i have these items i can finally put everything back together and see if it runs(hopefully). also the auction is on November 1st and 2nd so i will be updating my  blog  as soon as i go to the auction and find out if they have a specific parts i need.

10-11-11

This week was a pretty good week for the motorcycle. Me and my dad got the clutch apart still and Wednesday night we worked on just washing out  parts and doing a couple of minor things. Next week i plan on putting the full clutch disk in with my dad and hopefully we can begin on the motor a little more. I hope this motorcycle rebuild starts going a little faster i don't want to have an incomplete bike at the end of the project so i have to start spending a little more time with it.

10-6-13

This week has been a pretty slow week for my motorcycle. I've had my schedule full almost every day. so this week I really only accomplished getting the rust off of the rims. also this week I have been trying to make money so I can be able to get most of the parts that I need for the bike all at once. parts for the bike are going to cost a good amount of money and that is where I am running into problems. every bolt and anything I break during the teardown all cost money and there not cheap. Hopefully I will be able to come up with the funds relatively soon. till then I will just have to do stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money.

9-29-13

This week we presented our projects to the class,teachers and other officials of the school. I thought that my presentation of my motorcycle went good. I used a power point presentation of about five pictures of my bikes as my example. i had a good time and enjoyed seeing everyone else's projects. Also this week i started to take apart the engine of my bike more and try to figure out what is wrong. No luck yet but soon i hope to have it figured out. Some things that i am going to work on this week our getting everything apart and start getting to work on sandblasting and try to clean up some of the rust on the bike.

Suzuki 125

Suzuki 125

9/20/13

This past week i have been really busy but i did manage through all of the chaos that is my life to finally get the bike out of my garage and into my dads workshop where i will be working on it. Yesterday i ordered a clutch disk for the motorcycle from Paul miller Suzuki.I wont need the clutch disk for a while but its good to have than be waiting for later. Next week i hope that i will be able to pull the engine out and figure out what is wrong with it(with my dads help because i have no idea whats wrong). I also took a few pictures of the bike and will be posting them shortly. 

Why I Want to Rebuild a Motorcycle

Hi my name is Hunter Austin and my 20 time project is to rebuild a 1973 Suzuki ts 125. I have had this motorcycle in my garage for about 2 years. My dad bought this motorcycle from one of his friend and he said it would be a good project bike to work on. The 20 time project really gives me an opportunity to finally redo this bike and i am really exited. The motorcycle is a good bike it just needs a lot of work, something is wrong internally inside the engine and the clutch disk is bad in it. also  i'm sure as i go on through this project other problems will come up.  i hope at the end of the project that the bike is running good and i fully intend to make it look good and give it a nice paint job. i will be updating my progress weekly so keep checking my blog.