My JPS/ Ricer '86 Spree
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:15 pm
I picked up my Spree in October off of CL and immediately fell in love. I put 5 tanks of fuel through it the first weekend I had it. When I was a kid, I remember riding around my uncle's property on his red one and I couldn't believe that I had waited this long to pick up one of my own. I wanted to have this as a nice weather daily. But I realized that unless I wanted to triple my distance by riding though neighborhoods I needed it to do more than 28mph. So after the engine crapped out (still not sure why) I ordered a carb and BBK from Taz, spent the cold AF winter tuning, taking apart, tuning again and cleaning the Spree and now she's all done... Kind of.
I started with the motor, which has had the port timing changed a few times, but is right where I want it now. Then I took a Fox Racing Shox RP23 mountain bike and adapted it to fit, which lowered the back end about 2 inches, so I had to cut the fork coils to match. Put a 10x3 tire on the back to gain some speed. So now I needed to lift it to use the center stand, and after I removed the rack, I put a handle on the back to lift it. Then one of my friends thought it would be hilarious to make the handle a wing, so I made one out of some aluminum. I pulled all of the reflectors off which * my wife off, since it was black, I wear a lot of black to work and I would be riding it at night. So I bought 3M retro reflective tape and did the John Player Special treatment to it. Then painted the wheels gold to match.
One time I was riding with a friend and at a light a guy yelled, "YO does that thing have V-tec?" I said yes and the joke stuck. All the stickers are reflective.
I just ordered an MLM pipe and emailed TAZ about gears, It does 40 mph as it but I need MOAR SPEEEEEEED
I started with the motor, which has had the port timing changed a few times, but is right where I want it now. Then I took a Fox Racing Shox RP23 mountain bike and adapted it to fit, which lowered the back end about 2 inches, so I had to cut the fork coils to match. Put a 10x3 tire on the back to gain some speed. So now I needed to lift it to use the center stand, and after I removed the rack, I put a handle on the back to lift it. Then one of my friends thought it would be hilarious to make the handle a wing, so I made one out of some aluminum. I pulled all of the reflectors off which * my wife off, since it was black, I wear a lot of black to work and I would be riding it at night. So I bought 3M retro reflective tape and did the John Player Special treatment to it. Then painted the wheels gold to match.
One time I was riding with a friend and at a light a guy yelled, "YO does that thing have V-tec?" I said yes and the joke stuck. All the stickers are reflective.
I just ordered an MLM pipe and emailed TAZ about gears, It does 40 mph as it but I need MOAR SPEEEEEEED
if you can't get gears from taz just swap to the AX23 belt that's good for almost 5mph. It takes some real careful work to install it without screwing the end of the crank but it's possible. The AX24 was what I had started with but turned out to be too long. Love the paint job on that spree BTW real clean !