1974 HONDA ST90
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Honda ST90.... Reliving my childhood
June'ish 2024
Being over 50 leads most men into desperately trying to relive their childhood. What they enjoyed back then they want to replace in their lives today. And since fixing ourselves seems really hard and fixing women being impossible most men drag some old piece of shit home and try to fix it instead. After all men love to "fix" things... so that was all it took. You see I was born on a Honda CT70. This was not exactly the same but was the same body style. Thus I opted to dragger home from Market Place....
Here she looks to be in a lot better shape than she actually was. She did run though and that is always a good thing. My Dad used to always say... "What use is Grannie if she can no longer chop fire wood?" Now with three Harley's in my living room the last thing I needed was another bike but.....
The upsides to this one was the sticker price of $1350 canadian, it ran and it only had 1200 miles on it. The downsides were it was stored in a damp mud floored shed for years.
Now since this piglet is 51 years old I will be putting it back to original. Yes I could put a bigger Sheep Shite Shina engine in it but that would be like putting lipstick on a pig... seriously... if you need more power buy a bigger bike there are millions of them out there!!! Now since these ST90's were only made for three years I opted to go the original route.
Any videos posted here will be lousy but could be helpful to anyone doing a refresh on one of these bikes. My plan was to do a lot of videos documenting every step... I have had a lot of "plans" in life... : ) Anyway hopefully you find some tips that help you with yours.
Oh... and if you think I have even the slightest clue as to what I am doing you would be wrong. As with this hole site... it is for entertainment purposes only!!!
THE CONTRAST IS INTERESTING...
hmmm..... I need to rearrange my living room....
Reality Kicks In
Whooooeee!!!! Now that it is morning and the booze wore off it's pretty easy to see she looked a lot better in the dark!!!!
Where To Start?......
The Fender Story...
November 3, 2024
Here I have taken the lid off the cana worms...... have to do something with the fenders....
So here is the long winded fender story.... The chrome is heavily pitted and rusted as you can see above. The front one was not quite as bad so I opted to play with it first.
My first step was to make up a fresh batch of "home maid" Evaporust. I have been an absolute fan of Evaporust for years. There are a few different types of rust remover I use but Evaporust is my favorite.. The main reason is it only eats off the rust. It does not etch the metal nor does it affect the paint like other rust removers do. When trying to revive the original patiina on a vintage cabinet for my cabinet collection this is vital!
Home Maid Evaporust
Now I used to always buy Evaporust in the 3 or 4 gallon pail. Up here in Communist Canaduh it ruins a hundred dollar bill.... then started seeing these videos on youtube where wing nuts not unlike myself were making it themselves. So after watching a bunch of videos on it opted to giver a try. Turns out I can't tell the difference other than the home maid version seems to last a lot longer and costs a hell of a alot less..
Next...... Rims and Tires
The Rims and Tires for'er
Though at a distant the rims on this looked ok... but up close the rust was heavy duty. After some looking on line I found these on Ebay. They looked cheap at two for 149.... us.... shipping extra... exchange,.... then when they get to communist canaduh the mob sticks you with more fee's.... final cost 425 for the two... Still not bad for two brand new rims... Time of course will tell the quality but dam they sure look good! Now they also seemed to get here fast. Considering that once they reach Canaduh they go onto pack horses until they reach the final destination.
The link for the rims is: click here
The link for the tires is: click here
The Rims from Ebay
click on picture for link
Bought these two rims off eBay.... they were not easy to find.. The odd ball ST90's you will find ,if you haven't already, that they are not near as easy to find parts for as are the CT70's. In case you are worrying... The set I bought was the last set also. That said... I would buy them now while the getting is good....
By the time I got them to up here in Canaduh there were about 215 each. Remember our government has all but destroyed Canada economically. Trudoughead was hoping to make Canada into Cubanada in his father's memory. He got close but failed so the WEF sent in some back up help... a used car salesman and part time sheep herder named Carnie Val. This won't end well for Canaduh
New Tires....
Had one helluva time trying to find some tires for this piglet. The front tire is fine for me. The back one was sitting in the mud and has one spot that is very dried out rotted and cracked..... Actually I was starting to get a little nervous about finding any at one point. When I first came here they were out of stock... Was about to give up when by fluke I came back here and viola they had stock again!!! I wasn't taking any chances so ordered a set.
Size wise like the page says they say they are 2.75 14's but do actually look exactly like 3,00 14's that are on it. At least from what I can tell as the original ones are still mounted and inflated and these new ones are not. Even if they do end up looking smaller they will definiitely work.... duct tape can only go so far when it comes to fixing rotted out tires!!! : )
Now dealing with these guys was really weird. It was like they were lost in time and stuck back in the fifties when places would offer real service!!!
Somehow they missed sending my confirmation email so I contacted them just to confirm. The guy there writes me back appologizing and says he threw in a set of tube protectors for the rim. Well I was like "jackspot" I forgot to order them!!! Turns out he threw them in free of charge!!! Who the hell does stuff like that any more!!! I will of course be buying anything I can from these guys in the future!!! Click on the picture to go to the page.
PhatMX
as in
phatmx.com
Yes... PhatMX.... what a Godsend!!!! This is another one of those weirdball companies that still think good service is important!!! Keith there has been extremely helpful when it came to answering all my dumb questions.
Now since ST90's are a bit of an odd ball duck only sold for three years in America they don't have a lot of stuff for them. But what they do have is good quality. So far most of the parts I have bought for this have been through these guys.
I am now praying that I don't find a vintage CT70 I am so desperately looking for! : )
Click on the image to go to their site