Holy piston. Casual observers will have no idea that there’s more than one path for the fuel/air mixture to reach the combustion chamber plus some extra intake time with these bottom holes in the piston. Normally the piston skirt has shut off intake to the crankcase as it travels down to keep buildi...

Lookin' good! Also a good model to own. Maxie

Hey Mac! Wondering today if you still existed. What's your project these days? Good to hear from you! Maxie

Ha ha. Clarence. Still use the tool thing and put that in there to see if you were awake...Maxie

An illusion Albert, ha ha. I try to line up the camera not to show the standard mess and move any junk from the camera's view. Shop is part garage attached to the house and shares heating and cooling but you need to sweep occasionally as not to track up the house. I do have an implement building for...

Bits and pieces of the Silver Streak project. Not a full time project but slipped in line occasionally. Magic paint works on hot things too. Just the ticket for this themed project.

Hodaka Fan Club on Facebook. Another place about Hodaka things and I did mention my good friends here. I do both. Kinda cool on Facebook, you can "like" what people say without an additional post. Thousands more people to deal with, good and bad, though. I can take care of myself, I think,...

Wow! This is lookin' good! Unique too. Good job! Maxie

Meanwhile, evolution of the Ace 100B+ engine, about the same as it’s ever been. Model 93 Super Rat, the next model has a significant gain in power but darned noisy. We have neighbors and wild animals on the place plus we might ride this to town. Better stick with the stock exhaust but we need more p...

Speeding through the process. First steps in restoration is to update this model to a new century. Blast, inspect, etching primer, paint. Elbow grease and polish, seals and bearings, brake shoes, tires and tubes. Replacement rear shocks on the way from Hodaka-Parts.com who seem have most everything....

BTW, this project has been shown recently as the Super Brat project and this is how this all started, like from day one. Currently this is about to run but is still being changed and updated. Wife and graphic artist Eweleen has designed the new graphics. It was starting to be a fancy Ace 100B+. Too ...

Thanks for the comments Dale! I think I'm satisfied with the red impact of the traditional Hodaka emblems. That spot of color your eye goes to when everything else is silver. Been a long but really fun take on a Hodaka build. I try to do some different theme or purpose on a project. Hodakas were mad...

Minor change. One should not have two conflicting points of interest in design. Now the Hodaka emblem is dominant in the design. Who cares? Ha ha. Just me as a photographer for eons. Hey, this is getting almost to start-up. Looks fun to me!

Looks to be a fun project Victor, I do like restoration stories as you've probably guessed. Looks like that workbench is full again! Same here. Where does all that stuff come from? Maxie

In the shop for disassembly to the last bolt. Degrease things. Mock up for what could happen to the best 100B+. Last of the Aces with cushioned rear hub, Super Rat wheels and suspension. Lots of Wombat extra parts to use and I do have a two bolt reed manifold of the day and this Wombat 24mm carb. Lo...

Three more to go Matt. Downhill from this load. Just pile 'em in for the next trip! Hodaka Fan Club on Facebook is a fun bunch too!

Found one, two actually, in a barn of course. Being kinda gone for awhile, I see the Chat Group has slowed up considerably. I’ve been hiding on Facebook where you can get into an argument several times a day on any subject and I do. Discussions might be the word. Maybe a project report for the Hodak...

Think "Silver Streak" on the emblem. Seems a bit bold. This may all become silver (really flat aluminum) for that one-piece look! Things change daily on this one.

Silver and metal is the plan. Magic Paint, dull aluminum but some things clear coated as the air filter cover. Proper emblem for Silver Streaks installed. Always wondered what that SS meant. Wombat basket engine case figured out and installed with model 95 Combat Wombat upper end. Reporting, Maxie

That will look great in #1403 dull aluminum OR clear-coated silver!

Yikes, we and Magic Paint been found out! What used to be six bucks a can now can be $22 a can. Has a new look but the right stuff. Victor and I, the major users began an internet search. Real Hodaka guys can’t be without this Magic Paint. Amazon, $22 for one but a six pack for about fifty bucks to ...

Checking. Old man going north. All started by that rascal Clarence Taber to heckle Max in 2016. Still going today with 75,134 views and 224 comments when I last looked. Most viewed I think. Finally met Clarence at Hodaka Days 2018, or was it the Old Man? Still not clear. I did set on his machine and...

Model 94 Wombat. Weird barn find. Came with the Ace 100 B+, now the "Super Brat" project, also shown. Another Ace 100B+ and two more Wombat carcasses. Five total, Three savable, two not. Some extra parts in boxes. This 94 Wombat had a Ace 100 "E" engine but a box of the old Womba...

Something you should know about. No, I don’t own stock in this stuff. Krylon specialty Metallic #1403 dull aluminum. Amazing for paint. Adheres to scuffed or blasted surfaces, Seems to have no thickness. Like anodizing almost. Tough and heat resistant. Doesn’t seem to chip. I use this for all the si...

Actually our old motorcycle club did this way long ago. Dirt field, short run, way under one-hundred yards. No classes, drag anyone or everybody you want. What fun, continuous two at a time start practice with a flagman. Bet I ran the XT-350 Yamaha through over a hundred times. Even bike trading goi...