ciaociao

i know you’ve all seen the dellorto racing 21mm phbg before, but i feel like i need to update with at least a few pictures.. i’ve since added a lever choke to it, though i need to yank the oil injection tube and tap/plug the hole it goes it, just to get the lever to sit where it is supposed to on the carb.

also, a few weeks ago i begun milling the brake plate so that it will fit the stock ciao fork. the wheels are from a vespa si, and the fork’s break stop is in a completely different place than the ciao.
lucky for me, mikemike has a mill, and i know how to use it.
i started off by milling the brake plate down to the proper height for the ciao fork.

once it was down the the proper height, i noticed that the back of the plate was hollow, and now i had these nifty holes to deal with.

i’ll be milling a new slot at a different angle through there, and so i had to do something about those holes. here you can see them from the back;

to get around this, i’ve roughened up the inside of those holes and groves in the back of the plate, drilled some holes connecting the groves and packed some quicksteel in there super tight until it was squeezing out the front like playdough. quicksteel is rad because it is millable once it’s nice and hard.

so that’s where i’m at currently. sunday mikemike and i are headed to his shop where i will try and finish up the front wheel, and maybe brainstorm on the intake now that i have the carb handy to play with. maybe i’ll be able to get some pictures of the cdi system we are going to use on this project. it’s much smaller than the system we were going to use, it should be pretty nuts once it’s all worked out.

so there you have it! you’re all caught up! june is coming quick, and i still plan to have this in rough-and-ready mode (not painted, but good to go otherwise) by the puddle cutter rally!