I like your style

From a Plastic Fantastic Beta MX, to a Retro Cool Street Scrambler - nice.

Inspiration

You can see where the build was influenced from, and this exhaust has got to be the way to go:

 

(more) Inspiration part three (or is it four)

Just love this bike's profile.

Neat dash

Nice seat (I'd like a thumper just to have a Supertrap again)

Where I want to go with my seat, rear light and mudguard.

Just cool

Frustration........I keep finding little jems of inspiration

Inspiration

inspiration [ˌɪnspɪˈreɪʃən]

n

1. stimulation or arousal of the mind, feelings, etc., to special or unusual activity or creativity

2. the state or quality of being so stimulated or aroused

3. someone or something that causes this state

4. an idea or action resulting from such a state

5. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) the act or process of inhaling; breathing in

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Deep in my hardrive, a collection of imigary:

It could be a colour, a style, a component, a modification, or just simple admiration at someone's effort.

More inspiration.

I'd already ordered an Aluminium Number board, albiet an oval shape, when I spotted this. A 100mm "Dominator" lamp will sit in it nicely. I've even found some nice billet mounting brackets for the number board, but at $40 a time, I'll keep looking for now.

 

I like the look of these drilled brake plate's

Nice short "underslung" Spannie on a DT based bobber. I've found an interesting pipe kit that allows you to make up a pipe to fit.

To quote AJS Motorcycles "Two Stroke Exhaust Kit. All you need to fabricate your own classic 2 stroke expansion chamber. Suitable for 250cc - 410cc. As used on our own Cotton replicas.
Each kit consits of:
1) Front bend. 2" Diameter.
2) Front cone.
3) Centre section.
4) rear cone.
5) Tail pipe (35mm OD ready to accept our STEALTH muffler).
All sections are seam welded. You just need to angle the sections and hold together with masking tape until you are ready to tack and weld" Sounds easy!

I'm still a bit loathed to start until I've got the paperwork back from the DVLA. The bike needed to be inspected - check the frame number was ok - which I've done, and they've located the bike, so should be all OK. Once I've got the V5 in my name, I can move a bit further. 


I've got all the parts to fabricate the seat, and lower and rebuild the forks. In fact, all I need now is a Tank and some rear dampers.

Fluid Engineering

Well, fluid in my thought's. 

My ebay sourced seat unit arrived. A nice bit of kit, and, seemingly made to fit the TS250 frame. Sitting perfectly over the rails, and married up to a cheap (as in a tenner, as in useable but in need of love) GT250 Fuel Tank also found on ebay looked pretty good. The tank will need some sheet metal work altering to fit perfectly, but that could have been easily achieved by grafting in a small section of the original ER Tanks underside. But, and it's a big but...................................


With the seat in place, the original bars dropped to give an idea of the seating position if fitted with some "Clubman" or "Ace" type bars, and my 6'2" frame (recovering from a prolapsed Disc) did not sit well on the TS250's dainty frame. Flat drag bars may help a bit, as would some rearsets - I kinda guessed where I thought my feet would end up, but concerned that I'll end up with a bike I cant ride for more than a few yards I need a re-think.


Wondering back to my thoughts about including some "Bratstyle" styling in the bike, the simple fact that I like "Street Tracker's", and the donor bike's off road pretences................................................

Clean and simple rump

and I like the use of number boards

even more so incorporating the headlamp unit

and I really like the idea of removing any factory airbox

Bratstyle seems to get it's influence from Cafe Racers, Bobbers and Trackers

Off to the Classic Jap Show at Knebworth today, mainly for it's Autojumble. I really need a fuel tank that I like as my starting point. The seat unit - if I go Bratstyle Tuck n Roll - has already been fabricated in the grey matter a dozen times, and the rest will be driven by the seat and tank.