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Marque Remarks => Yamaha => Topic started by: Marc.com on September 12, 2009, 11:55:04 am
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Bit of solid spanner work has her looking a lot better. If anyone is interested I probably have enough photos to do a photo manual of the assembly.
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/IMGP0787.jpg)
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/IMGP0799.jpg)
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very nice indeed, been chopping wood as well I see.
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agreed! very nice indeed 8)
these things always amaze me as to how many different fr/rear mudguard and sidepanel combinations they seem to sport.
what have you used for the rear guard?
and did you have any frame clearance issues with the front guard?
cool bike 8)
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no the woodpiles my mates, powered log splitter.
So HL assembly from all clean and ready to go major parts took about 46 hours.... but most of that was spent chasing NOS motorcycle bolts, making spacers etc etc. There is about $400 worth of fasteners in that bike. I have the brake rod to plate and to find some TT5oo rear sprocket 1/2 nuts and NOS lockplates... Oh and a coil.
Nothing was a problem going together with the GMC kit, airbox and pipe, you just have to beaver away at it.
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what have you used for the rear guard?
and did you have any frame clearance issues with the front guard?
from memory rear guard is CR Husky one and front guard is Tony D Preston Petty one.
I made an adaptor plate to move the front guard it 25mm forward so it is aluminium plate bolted up to the Fox Forx and then the guard bolts to that, otherwise you have to really hack the front guard off and it looks poxy.
I think the sidecovers are the key to an HL looking good or pretty bad.
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ITS A GMC NOT A HALLMAN SORRY!!!!!! GET IT RIGHT :P
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Very Nice Marc, something to be proud of. R u gunna ride it...
Brett
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very nice mark,will you race it
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ITS A GMC NOT A HALLMAN SORRY!!!!!! GET IT RIGHT :P
Your right its just some crappy welding project from Victoria, but feel free to post some pictures of your own HL so I can see where I went wrong.
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i did .any way dont you like it when the shoes on the other foot (hl beats maico ) ::)
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you have actually done a very nice job mark ;D
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Well I am quite pleased with my bike and don't really want to get baited into a pissing match over what I call it.
I got to assemble it on holiday with my best mate looking on and a few Caronas, thats a heap more important.
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good ,then you understand were im comeing from ;)
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Nice one Marc, where does the Hallman reference come in....have I missed a withdrawn post or something?
How long are you home for? You might get a few more done. (I like the TM Suzuki too.) We're about to start a left field TM Suzuki project ourselves.
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No it was just part of the HL holeshots Maico discussion ;D, speaking of Maicos watched some great footage of Neville Coombe in Europe yesterday.
Back to left field projects, got the swingarm HPC coated on the KSI theme bike.... cost $123 and looks too good to fit. Whats the Suzuki project ???
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Nice one Marc, where does the Hallman reference come in....
I think calling one a HL might be it...... :P
Nice bike all the same for a kit bike. :)
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as i said i agree it is a nice job looks really like one.
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Yeah i seem to have a fetish for kit bikes, finishing my Rickman is the next drama.
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nice choice with the rickman ;D
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nice choice with the rickman ;D
yeah I was pretty lucky, bought original MK3 frame with good Nickel and no dents or war damage. I have all alloy 500 Triumph pre unit motor for it so it should come up nice.
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and matching Bell Moto 4
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/IMGP0805.jpg)
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looks really good so are you just going to leave it like that or put on that moto4 and ride it thanks Michael. :)
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Bit of solid spanner work has her looking a lot better. If anyone is interested I probably have enough photos to do a photo manual of the assembly.
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/IMGP0787.jpg)
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/IMGP0799.jpg)
Do you have a photojournal of the engine rebuild?
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Nice job Marc , real nice job
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thanks for that guys, I am lucky I have a friend that has a bike wreckers and another family member with a Suzuki dealership so managed to get all the right motorcycle bits, so on to the next project which is the KSI bike I guess.
Motor has to come out again as will change the head over to the Daytona one but thats a mornings work.
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/iwataco-img600x450-1213856187yi80lm.jpg)
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looks great how dose it sound ,wipes drible from chin .ones on my buckets list
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A couple of years ago i went to a supercross at sydney, Steven Gall Mr motocross from back in the day was putted aroung the track between races, i was sure it was a four stroke Yammy bigbore. sounded great I think it may have been one of these HL things. I was told by another old racer from the early 80's that i was mistaken and it must have been a two stroke.
Has Gally got one of theses or access to...
OLDYZMAN
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Has Gally got one of theses or access to...
OLDYZMAN
Did it look anything like this one..... this is the bike that got me going in the first place.
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/NewOldSchoolopener03.jpg)
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ITS A GMC NOT A HALLMAN SORRY!!!!!! GET IT RIGHT :P
Thats right Paul, it's not a Hallman.
The USA built frames were known as Hallman's....
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/Hallman-Yamaha-1.jpg)
The UK models were known as HL's....
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/HLbrochure-1.jpg)
So it's really a HL replica, abbreviated to HL ;D
Nice job Marc, has it been fired up yet?
40 odd hours to build you say Marc, that's odd, according to my records it was closer to 40 months ::) ;D
The originals went together a bit quicker....
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/HLbrochure-2.jpg)
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Still a big fat & ugly farm bike IMO, if it were a woman you wouldn't look twice! Unless you like big, fat & ugly of course! Just my thoughts though.
Cheers,
K
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Steven Gall Mr motocross from back in the day was putted aroung the track between races, i was sure it was a four stroke Yammy bigbore. sounded great I think it may have been one of these HL
The bike was probably Gary Benns Curtis built bike that I covered for ADB magazine a couple of years ago. It's a ridgy didge period works bike Gary bought from the factory when he headed the Toshiba Yamaha team in the UK during the 80s.
Gally also raced a very trick and fast TT500 Yamaha on dirt track during the late 70s and later an equally trick and fast TT600. I believe both bikes still exist......somewhere.
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Nice one Marc, where does the Hallman reference come in....
I think calling one a HL might be it......
Nice bike all the same for a kit bike.
I'm still a little mystified by Pauls seemingly hostile attitude towards Marcs bike. I'm presuming Marcs bike is a GMC kit which most of the bikes in this country are. If we really got down to the nitty gritty all GMC kit bikes should be called replica HLs but we don't, generally accepting them as the real thing. Why arc up against Marcs lovely example when no angst has been shown towards previously posted GMC HLs? I must be missing something! ???
Below are my Brit friend Bens two HLs, one a genuine period bike, the other a GMC kit bike. I've forgotten which is which and Ben himself has said a number of times that he sometimes gets confused as to which one is which.
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1062154/bens%20HLs.jpg)
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im not hostile .he does the same light hearted thing to me in maico treads ,and i praised him on the job hes done on the gmc hl replica ,next he could put a corvette fiberglass body on a volks wagon chassie for fun too lol
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That's cool Paul...Me missing yet another in joke eh? ;D
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im not hostile .he does the same light hearted thing to me in maico treads ,and i praised him on the job hes done on the gmc hl replica ,next he could put a corvette fiberglass body on a volks wagon chassie for fun too lol
Yeah don't worry Firko, I did it to myself by trying to convince Paul he should sell the Maico to me for cheap and do up a daggy TT500. ;)
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been checking a few kits out mark heres a couple :D
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/CONDOR-x-2-VW-kit-cars_W0QQitemZ120467788832QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Cars?hash=item1c0c709420&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Kit-car-moulds-project-to-suit-VW-chassis_W0QQitemZ330254890693QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Car_Parts_Accessories?hash=item4ce4b9b6c5&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
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fibre glass is for pussies, once saw a Lambo done tastefully in particle board.
My Hl replica shares a garage with very nice Ford 427 Cobra, 600hp alloy Y block engine the full nine yards....pity it is not mine.
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I've been wondering about the HL's. What class are they eligible for in VMX?
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I've been wondering about the HL's. What class are they eligible for in VMX?
I would think just Evo and a 4 stroke class if your club has one. Too much travel for pre '78 even though i think Bengt Aberg raced one in '77.
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If an HL is built correct to period you could easily race it in pre 78. Here's Bengt Aberg and the original bike and crew.
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1062154/bengt%20aberg%20replica%201.jpg)
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I've been wondering about the HL's. What class are they eligible for in VMX?
The tractor pull!!! :)
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That bike looks 'right' Firko. The jacked up replicas getting around look wrong and probably don't handle as good as they could. They would make a great pre '78 bike with period suspension set-up.
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Not too shabby actually
(http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv132/mc125mick/IMGP0787.jpg?t=1253533887)
If she were mine, I would be wantin to give her a good riddin at least once a day.
She is as pretty as any pinup I have ever seen ::)
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(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1062154/aberghl2.jpg)
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I was originaly chasing 79 wheels & forks my my own HL to ride in Pre 80.
It's taken me so long to get around to keeping a frame for myself that Pre 80 no longer exists so I thought I may as well have the "H" forks with the twin leader if I have to ride it in Evo.
But now I'm leaning towards D model stuff to make it Pre 78 compatible.
I beleive this is where they would be better off as the technology / design is more in line with Pre 78.
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I was originaly chasing 79 wheels & forks my my own HL to ride in Pre 80.
It's taken me so long to get around to keeping a frame for myself that Pre 80 no longer exists so I thought I may as well have the "H" forks with the twin leader if I have to ride it in Evo.
But now I'm leaning towards D model stuff to make it Pre 78 compatible.
I beleive this is where they would be better off as the technology / design is more in line with Pre 78.
Just swap the front end and you can run the HL in almost anything. Mines staying as it is, suspension wise though I do have a plan for a shit kicker horsepower motor. Next step is Daytona head and possibly run methanol.
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Guys, for my two cents worth I think the GMC HL500 is a bloody sexy looking machine. So much so that I am building one. Given I'm unlikely to ever afford or find the real think. The beauty now is that we can build to our own personal taste.
John
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Geoff does nicer swingarm and footpegs than the original ;D
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Can you explain the Daytona head please. what is it??
John
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Daytona was big player in Japanese singles racing and did a lot of cool parts
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/iwataco-img600x450-1213856187yi80lm.jpg)
or round barel
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/i_love_music_haku-img600x450-123860.jpg)
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start with GMC kit it is much easier than chopping up Huskies.
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/IMGP0802.jpg)