KIWI RIDER 01 2019 VOL.2 | Page 63

This bike is an example of Kiwi ingenuity. A story of making something... because. The initial spark was to make a bike for the Juggy Hundy. I’ll let you work that one out. The bike is a mix of a 2014 KTM 85SX motocross chassis but with the potent 85cc two-stroke lump removed, and replaced with a Honda CRF100F four-stroke donk. Builder Matt Vining tells us the story of how this strange creation came to be... “I basically started out with a 2014 KTM 85SX in running order which I bought off Trade Me. To recover some costs from the purchase I sold the engine and wheels, giving me some cash to put back into building the bike. I already had a CRF100F with a Takegawa 146cc big bore kit and Super Head fitted, and it was running an oversized oil pump too. We had to mount an oil cooler on the bike to help stop the problem of the engine oil boiling when it got hot. Thankfully, this did the trick and the engine runs a lot cooler now.