![]() ![]() If you are being tentative about the change down, you will be making it harder to achieve a smooth change. In a perfect world, the engine would be doing close to the revs it will be doing when you lift your foot off the gear change and the clutch re-engages. The ideal is to close the throttle enough to take the load off the transmission, but not enough so that the engine will be idling when you select the lower gear. That doesn't happen if you completely close the throttle and hesitate during the gear change. The purpose of closing the throttle when changing down is to contribute to a smooth change. Since the gear lever mechanism disengages the clutch when it is pressed in either direction, they aren't really clutchless changes. If you happen to be in the greater Sydney area and you see this thing on the street, well, I'm not suggesting you snatch it and mail it to me here in the States, but.My recollection of riding pushrod Honda 50 quite some time ago is that it is possible to achieve smooth gear changes, both up and down. If you'd like to know more about The Hopper, or anything else about Rising Sun Workshop, check out Silodrome's full interview and mosey on over to RSW's website. I'll be honest with you all, my only complaint about The Hopper is that I can't go down to my friendly neighborhood Honda dealer and buy one off the floor right now. I don’t know how many hours went into the build, but it is safe to say between everyone involved, with everything around the build, including filming social media short videos etc we would have hundreds and hundreds of hours in it." It did mean a bunch of 16 hour days, but the end result speaks for itself. We had many delays with the bike, like motorcycle accidents, deadlines shifting, running a workshop, overseas holidays and as the collaboration was always about building an amazing bike on a small budget, the labor or build hours would just be put in whenever possible. We had members help on the build, and that was always going to be the case, but like everyone, life gets in the way, so building a custom bike takes a back seat. The biggest challenge on this build was time. It features a built-in draft beer dispensing system, a rad sparkly vinyl seat made to look like the top of a glass of beer, and killer old-school chopper aesthetics. Basically a company calling card, The Hopper was designed to travel around to bars, bike shows, festivals, and other places where thirsty people gather to spread the gospel of hops. ![]() Speaking of weird customs, the guys at Rising Sun Workshop recently teamed up with best mates Young Henrys Brewing to build a rolling beer bar called The Hopper out of a CT110 and, whew, it may be the most perfect bike ever built. They can be had for pennies at government surplus auctions in Oz, and they are, in a word, perfect for small bike customization projects. They're damn near bulletproof and, after a thirty-some year run in worldwide production, are common as dirt in places not called America. For those of you who aren't familiar, the CT110 is a pocket-sized, small-displacement dual sport that rocks a 105cc air-cooled single mated to a semi-auto four-speed trans with a centrifugal clutch. ⠀ Sydney to London on a Wing and a PrayerĪbout a million years ago, the Australian Post bought tons of tiny, mighty, Honda CT110s, modified them for postal duties, and the legendary Postie Bike was born. ![]()
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