Jack, I don't know what happened to the bike as I went on to a Super Rat and then a Combat Wombat and I gave all my trophies (except my largest one) to a Scout Master to use for his scout group. Clarence, you noticed a lot of things about the bike. You must have blown the photo up to see all those t...

Throwing this in just for fun. Made these myself in 1969 and they worked until I could afford a trailer. Sorry I don't still have mine.

I sent an email to the advertiser to edit the ad to show location. Maybe he will answer.

Really nice. I need to find someone that can do this for me. How do they price items? By number or weight or what?

I was just wondering what causes the Hodaka bridge to heat up and expand into the piston and others don't. Seem to me that the exhaust heat is what caused it so how do other makes keep that from happening? Also, why would other makes install the bridge at all if the the port do not go over the perce...

So smart! So many riders here in Colorado don't wear helmets. The Harley clubs have kept it out of the law books. I just saw in the newspaper that we have had over 58 deaths already this year from motorcycle crashes and 34 of them were not wearing helmets.

Notice how wide the exhaust port is. The ring has to still use the bridge for support so if it is relieved too much it allows the ring to drop out too far and get caught. As the ring has to touch the bridge it should be smooth. Properly done and under working conditions the bridge will heat up and b...

It was sent to Paul a couple years ago in both formats and someone there made the decision to put it on his site in the .pdf format (maybe because it is a standard internet format.) Anyway I have sent the .xls format to 15 or 20 people that ask for it.

In searching around I see that even Walmart and Amazon have some sizes available online in packs of 10 and 20.

I still have it in the .xls format. I need an email address to send it to you. My email address is [email protected] if anyone else wants it just shoot me a note.

For anyone that is having trouble with nuts coming loose this may be the answer. I have not tried them but this video looks good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKwWu2w1gGk

Necessity is the father of invention.

Just be sure the welding did not close up the oil hole to the bearing. Looks like it will work.

Performance Report: Finally had a chance to test performance of this Combat Wombat against my Super Combat (same cylinder, head and piston modified by Rich. Main difference is the SC had a 32 mm carb and the HT3 pipe and the CW had a 28 mm spigot mount carb and the stock pipe. My son was riding one ...

Bill, I installed the fork assembly from the Hodaka 250 ED (#718754) therefore I had to use the steering shaft that Paul sells to adapt to the Combat Wombat frame. Therefore, what I have is essential the same as the Wombat 03 front end (except for the springs.) So the conical hub fits right in. I ha...

Thanks Ed, I forgot to mention the conical hub.

It has been two years since I brought this little bike back from Hodaka Days 2014. Got it from Kelly McKeirnan. Took it down to the last bolt, powder coated the frame. New decals on the breather cover. Went through the engine and while I had it down I matched up the case ports that Rich Gagnon had i...

Should have come from the factory that way. Good job.

Pictures from Hodaka Days 2010. First time I met Harry and his wife.
Left to right: Rich Gagnon, Jim Gentry and wife, Harry's wife and Harry, and me (Bill Chapman.) My wife (Marylan), Harry's wife, Harry and me.

Maybe it was some very young Grandpas that was on those bikes that passed you Ed. Maybe there needs to be an age limit or renamed to "Senior".

If you are careful you may be able to re-use the drive pins for the ID plate. They have a spiral thread so they turn a little as they go in (and out).

Good looking crew. Thanks guys for all you do!

Ed, I think you should have protested those other two bikes. They looked like they may have been illegal.

Something is causing the flywheel to drag against something as the flywheel nut does not tighten the flywheel to the bearing. It only tightens it to the taper on the crankshaft. Might be worthwhile to check that one of the 3 coils is not dragging the inside of the flywheel. Just a thought.

Someone that knows advanced Word or Excel may can tell us how to make columns of the last digits of each line but I don't know how to do it. What I would do is copy and past like you did and then manually add the Volume, Issue and Page to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th columns. That is why I said time consumi...