Chris
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I found this frame a few years ago in a deplorable state. It had been sitting in a garden gently rusting away. It is a Yamsel frame & had been fitted with a Farhon 400 Yamaha engine. That is a 350 road engine with a water cooled conversion by Fahron. The thing was raced with sit up & beg handlebars. U bolts drilled through the alloy Tickle yokes. The disc front end had been fitted to 7 inch yokes by hacksawing the bottom legs! A lovely "V" cut that was left & the front end bolted up. My friend Rob James of Pipecraft confirmed the frame was sound but bodged badly. The engine brackets were cut of with a disc cutter & welded brackets blobbed on top. A battery box, a bracing tube & radiator brackets all crudely added. Not sure how it got through scrutineering. Lots of pitting from the rust but sound.
Anyway, I got confirmation it was a Yamsel from Colin. TD2's are getting pretty rare & very expensive to build & run & as I was starting from scratch I decided to put a Dayton engine in it. With a drum front brake I can race it in group2 period 2 ie road based engine up to 72 & eligible for the ACU championship the CRMC & European events.
Chris
I found this frame a few years ago in a deplorable state. It had been sitting in a garden gently rusting away. It is a Yamsel frame & had been fitted with a Farhon 400 Yamaha engine. That is a 350 road engine with a water cooled conversion by Fahron. The thing was raced with sit up & beg handlebars. U bolts drilled through the alloy Tickle yokes. The disc front end had been fitted to 7 inch yokes by hacksawing the bottom legs! A lovely "V" cut that was left & the front end bolted up. My friend Rob James of Pipecraft confirmed the frame was sound but bodged badly. The engine brackets were cut of with a disc cutter & welded brackets blobbed on top. A battery box, a bracing tube & radiator brackets all crudely added. Not sure how it got through scrutineering. Lots of pitting from the rust but sound.
Anyway, I got confirmation it was a Yamsel from Colin. TD2's are getting pretty rare & very expensive to build & run & as I was starting from scratch I decided to put a Dayton engine in it. With a drum front brake I can race it in group2 period 2 ie road based engine up to 72 & eligible for the ACU championship the CRMC & European events.
Chris