1967 Bridgestone 175 Hurricane Scrambler
I’m honored to have won second place at the Southern California 2 Stroke Festival
And, Motorcycle Classics ran a feature on my restoration story!
Motorcycle Classics September/October 2018
Motorcycle Classics September/October 2018
Motorcycle Classics September/October 2018
This bike is a blast to ride. Fast and zippy for a small bike but next to a real motorcycle, you realize how slow you are going! The restoration took about a year. I had help rebuilding the engine and transmission. A friend Adam helped me weld the bump onto the seat. Chrome, powder coat and paint were all locally sourced. Custom YSS shocks. Assembled by me. The only bummer is that I could not find the correct street Bridgestone tires to put on the bike.
1967 Bridgestone 175 HS custom restoration
My helper today with my 1967 Bridgestone 175 HS custom restoration
Back from powder coat.
Back from powder coat.
Clean carbs
I sourced this engine build to a guy who builds Yamaha RD’s and such. Fingers crossed it works.
Painter went all out… all i needed was the rear dome painted. I’m not complaining. It looks amazing. The tank looks killer. Photos of that to come
Upholstery complete.
This thing has been making progress… slowly but surely… Parts take forever to get and it needed a complete tear down.
Bridgestone 175 crank
Bridgestone 175 ready for rebuild
Bridgestone 175 oil pump
Bridgestone 175 engine
The manual available for this bike is old, with terrible photos. So I am snapping shots of everything while I take it apart. How would this happen in the film days??? Expensively I guess…
Pixels are cheap.
More Photos to come…
Bridgestone 175 rear brake hub. Looks like it will polish up OK.
Bridgestone 175 rotary 2 stroke engine getting a batch in on the parts washer. It was filthy.
Bridgestone 175HS rear sprockets. I can’t wait to clean these up. They are a nice feature on the bike.
I have no idea what draws us to certain bikes… but I saw this for sale, cheap, and I had to get it. I think the toaster tank had something to do with it. It is a 1967 Bridgestone 175 Hurricane Scrambler.
I’m waiting for a bunch of custom BMW parts (in development), that this seemed like a good place to put that antsy restoration energy.
Supposedly, Bridgestone made such great bikes that they were pressured by other Japanese motorcycle companies to stop making motorcycles, otherwise the other companies would stop buying the Bridgestone tires.
1967 Bridgestone 175 HS
This bike arrived a bit rougher then I expected. With some help of a mechanic genius at the Oshmo shop, we got it running.
It had a weak spark so I waited about a month for some parts to arrive, replaced the coils and with the help of my daughter, we got it fired up with one kick.
I have no idea why I am going to sink time and money into this bike… but she is going to get torn down for a complete restoration with some custom bits thrown in.
Stay tuned for some 2 stroke updates…