'82 maxim 650 budget bike

not sure what ya mean, but the throttle is a 20$ cheapo for a harley i ordered from the local cycle shop. and the handle bars are just a thick straight pipe i found , i made a small shim to make the throttle mount tight to the bars tho, it was only a hair difrence between the bars and the throttle . plan to get some tube stock and weld up a better set soon. $$$ scarce around here tho lol .

wheres a good place to mount the ignition?
maybe ill just hack that off too................lol

 

My ignition right now is just a wire that I can touch to the frame to complete the circuit. I need to look in to how to "fix" that. I've actually thought about hooking up my ignition to something like a telegraph receiver, so I could press down on it to start my bike and then as soon as I let go a spring keep the "hot" lead off the ground. Sort of like how it is in this pic http://www.textually.org/textually/arch ... graph1.jpg , and mounting that contraptio hidden to the underside of the frame.


Can I get a close up pic of the throttle then? I want to get an idea of what you did.

 

i wish i could get my bike to idle down that low without stalling

 

@ mestnii ill take some pics when it stops raining.

@ schooter actually it idles lower then that usually, i had to turn the idle up a little after i disconnected the chock cable or it wont start . fires then just cranks till u chock it. its at like 650-700rpm now i think
once it warms up i can turn the idle down to about 500 or so before it starts to stall. i could be off tho, been awhile since i had a tach on'er.

i think it says somewhere on the bike that factory idle is 1700rpm lol

 

factory is 1100

 

almost positive the inside of the right side cover says 1700rpm but i painted over it
when i got it it idled at 1600rpm

but the speedos about 20mph slow so im sure the tach wasnt dead on..

 

Just as a side note, I remember it being discussed that even though your bike can idle that low it's bad to do so as the oil doesn't circulate well and something doesn't get lubricated properly. At least that's the excuse I use when my idle runs high But really though, low idles are bad, too right?

 

id guess to low isnt too good since when she idles to low i hear a slight tink . but its a 50$ bike and low is its attitude

dosnt spend to much time at a low idle anyhow. just sounds cooler when u stop and the idle drops to just barely alive.

 

quite frankly, i'd be proud to have an idle that low, because it has to be properly synched and tuned to be able to do so and stay running

 

yea other then the bike being layed down not to long before i got it its actualy in great shape and runs like a top. i think it actualy just fell over. air box had a half quart of oil in it when i pulled it off.

i am very proud of my bike. its been good to me since day one

 

I've been trying to find a better place to mount the ignition too. Thinking about just hiding a 2-position switch under the tank somewhere.

 

i hacked it off and used the original on/off switch from the old throttle and remounted behind the fram rail on the side. cant even see it. and sinc all u have to do to hotwire these things is twist 3 wires its just as safe lmao

has anyone removed the chock assembly from the bars? i need to make a lever for the chock on the carb not sure how i wanna go about it .

 

got bored the othere night and made a new tail light







its one of the turn signals, i chopped out the center and "grafted" lol a red lense into it. its still ruff .


and these are for mestnii, sorry there crappy my cell takes crap picks and i shack alot lol but if you need to see more lemme know.

 

Awesome, thanks for the close up. That looks like an interesting way to rig the throttle tube and the cable. I can't quite tell what that metal clamp is though, did you get it at a hardware store somewhere?

 

no clamps, the chrome part is the throttle. and the tubing on the cable was bent that way for the old bars id imagin, had dirt bike bars on it when i got it, not sure wtf the kid was thinkin lmao. in the last pic u can see the edge of the shim i had to use to get the throttle to fit.

new clutch lever comes in tomorrow and i just capped the frame ends up today came out nice i think. the closer i get to it being the way i want the more i wanna strip it down to bones and rebuild it lol
started polishing the motor today to F**kers gunna shine

 

I bought a dirtbike throttle (yz400) for .99 and drilled a hole in it and it works fine, i'm gonna have to use a little jb weld to keep the plastic tube in there

 

i couldnt find a parts bike of any kinda for 20$ i tryed and that throttle was the plainest and the cheapest i could find . id rather make my own. run the cable inside the bars

 

*jawdrop* Well done, man!

The black clutch and brake levers, where do you suggest I find those?

Thanks!

 

i forget the company that makes the clutch lever,but the break was on it when i got it and is comming off soon, moving it to a foot controlled front break. ill look for the packaging for the clutch lever tho, might still have it. was like 11$ with tax

 

@ antiorder i cant find the packaging sorry. i think both the clutch lever and throttle were from drag specialties.. http://www.dragspecialties.com/