Samurai now officially a Frando dealer!

We have been unofficially selling they fantastic products for a while now and have finally sealed the deal thanks to us being located about 15 mins away from their factory in Taipei.

Let me just say on a personal level the frando 4 piston calipers are amongst the very best in the world, they are all forged alloy with CNC finishing, everything from the scratch free paint to the high quality stainless bolts is of the most amazing quality.
They come with a 2 year warranty too, so theres really no reason why you would consider any other caliper.
We use frando brakes on both of our personal bikes (which i bought retail at the time on my RED Z-272!) and all of our race bikes.

To kick start this new partnership we are now offering a complete bolt on upgrade for the Yamaha Zuma 125.
You retain the existing 220mm disc and simply replace the old caliper and bracket with the new Frando 4 piston monster!.

Comes in one finish as shown and the kit price is $180 for fitment to the stock 220mm disc and $190 for fitment to the Samurai 260mm disc.

The Samurai 260mm floating disc is $90.
Frando also do stainless hoses, they are actually GOODRICH hoses with a frando sticker, they are $45.
Frando radial master cylinder is $170, click here for colour options: CLICK HERE!

Ultimate GY6 engines now on sale!

To fight the alarming amount of low quality chinese GY6 engines flooding the market, we decided to release a very special version of the GY6.
We have access to genuine OEM cases which are capable of going much larger than the 63mm bore the standard GY6 was stuck to.

Ours go to 67mm!!!!!

Availible as a bare bones case or a complete brand new built engine for the street or drag strip, there are tons of options which i couldnt even begin to list here but the 2 displacements availible are:

• 217cc with a 4mm stroker crank
• 232cc with the monster 8mm crank 

Case alone supplied with a Samurai 67mm big bore kit is only $650!.
(if you already have a tuned up GY6 this is a cool option as you can just transfer all the parts from your existing motor............ yes thats right our engine accepts all GY6 engine parts!)

Complete build prices start at $2200 for the 217cc street engine and go up to $3500 for a 4 valve watercooled monster!.

Pictures of an example build in the next few days and also some videos of a 232cc monster next month.

PC issues

We upgraded our pc to the new 6 core AMD cpu, new motherboard, new larger hard drive and windows 7.
Essentially a whole new pc, i didnt expect things to go smoothly but i did not expect them to have me without net access for 2 days!.

Basically the new motherboard didnt have the correct BIOS to run the new X6 1055t cpu (nerd speak here) and was refusing to boot or even allow me into the setup to update the BIOS.

Fast forwards 2 days (broken fingernails and late nights) and we are back online!

Farewell KOSO clutch

The day has come, i finally ran out of the legendary KOSO race clutch!.
I thought i had more left but it seems that i am down to the last one.

KOSO are willing to make more but require a large quantity order which we cant do right now thanks to the expense of the show.

So thats it for now, i could never find anything to replace it, so its just basic performance clutches from now on at a cheaper price....... which i guess will please some.

13 second engine in detail

Due to the show this was put on the back burner for a while, if you go back through our posts you will notice that we went through 2 engines in the process of making this!.

So lets take a look at the finished engine shall we.

Powder coated the cases gunmetal and applied ceremic coating to the cylinder and head, though heat isnt an issue for us as its only going to do 2 runs before being shut down.
The transmission side of the case has been drilled out to save a little weight............ we learnt our lesson last time and have added a CNC swingarm to help strengthen it, the swingarm weighs about 600 grams so its not really a big deal.

Here we have the samurai bell and the koso race clutch installed behind it, in my experience these 2 are the best combo on the market, shame the KOSO is next to impossible to pick up anymore.

CNC cooling fins with a breather tube attached, this will run along the inside of the frame rails to release excess pressure, though not pictured we are using a KEIHIN PWM38 carb with a HKS air filter.

CNC machined flywheel with custom timing, cylinder has built in passages for the oil cooler, other than that nothing special going on here.

Our swingarm as mentioned before.

Heres the other side in all its glory.

Now i cant say who this engine belongs too, but it will be raced this summer in a major event, im hoping to break the low 13's possibly the 12's if we get the gearing right, this would set a new record for a 4 stroke 125 scooter engine.

Inside is a huge 75mm piston with a very long stroker crank ( i forget check my previous post! )
The head has a proper 5 angle job with titanium retainers and stainless valves (again huge).
The engine requires over 100 octane gas to avoid detenation and its so fast we have to change the belt after a few runs.

Well hope you enjoyed the photos, i didnt get the Titanium exhaust out because its all wrapped up ready to ship.

The show is over

So the show finished about 4 hours ago, everything is packed and has arrived at the new show room in downtown taipei, though the shop isnt ready yet.

Show was half the size of last year, about 1/4th the amount of people came this time and we got screwed over by the event organisers,allow me to explain................

You see months ago we picked our booth space to be right by the entrance with our booth facing towards everybody.
4 days prior to the show the organisers uploaded a new floorplan which shrunk the event down and put us at the end of the show with the main entrance but in half directing people in the opposite direction!.

Its embarassing to have your booth tossed to the side as if your a nobody, even worse when you planned and was prepared to be in the middle of all the action, if they gave us more notification i could of faced my booth towards people instead of AWAY from them, as such nobody could find us, even friends who came to visit had a hard time finding us.

So yes we are very angry and we complained to the event organisers, all they said was sorry a thousand times and bow their heads......... how about a small refund considering we payed for prime space.

Other than that our bikes managed to attract a few crowds, heres some pictures.....

Photo finish

The International scooter show starts on the 15th of this month, we will be setting up the display booth from the 13th which is in 5 days time!.
So far our bikes are 100 miles away UNFINISHED, half of our products are still not ready and its looking like the catalogue will not be printed in time!.

So its happy days at Samurai HQ right now....... sarcasm doesnt really translate online as well as real life!.
We arent taking any new orders from now until the 18th to free us of some much needed time to prepare.

In the mean time heres a sneak peak at our latest GY6 63mm piston.