Like I really need another jigsaw puzzle ?

[Grewth]

A chance find on eBay and a lowball bid landed me with about 30% of an engine last month.
Now after some wheeling and dealing I've bagged about another big pile of engine bits.
The vendor seems to think that he has a set of crankcases, some carbs, and a couple of clutches yet to be found.
I reckon that with some diligence(and expense), I can build a running XT/SR engine out of this lot.
So the big question is what to put it in when it's finally built ?
I don't have a XT500 or SR500 rolling chassis to hand, and they seem to be fetching big money at present.
I'm thinking that maybe I could shoehorn the engine into a different frame.
But just what eludes me at present.

 

[Kevin Werner]

DT250? YZ80? RD200?

 

[Grewth]

FS1E !

 

[Adamc]

Monkey bike

 

[Grewth]

Monkey bike

Not as ridiculous as it sounds.
A while ago some, ahem, Special person built a Lambretta powered by a Harley Sportster.
Well no actually.
That's not strictly true.
You can't actually get a Sportster engine into a Lambretta.
So he scaled up a Lambretta until the Harley engine would fit within.
How to spend a lot of time and money in order to offend just about everyone !

 

[WideAWAKE]

DT250? YZ80? RD200?

Motor is part of the “frame” on an rd200.

Not sure if that would make it more or less difficult.

Sure would take the fun outta the bike, half of which is the ring ding ding of the 2 stroke.

 

[Grewth]

I've got a semi mutillated 650 Special frame chucked down the bottom of the garden, but I think the twin XS downtubes would foul the path of the XT exhaust.
What a pity.
Alternatively, I've got a raked unit Triumph frame with a bolt on hard tail.
I'm not sure that the tall XT motor would squeeze in though.
Until I get a set of crankcases I can't even build a "dummy" engine to experiment with