No....I am not calling anyone names - it is the name of my new motorcycle!

A friend called and said he was working on a motorcycle for a fellow, and it needed more work than the fellow was willing to pay for....would I be interested in being the new owner.  Well.....anybody that lives here in KY could not possibly resist owning a Suzuki Hill-Billy!

The bike was made between 1965-1967.  It is 80cc and it has dual sprockets on the back - you can move the chain over to the large rear sprocket for off road use, and back to the small sprocket for road use.

This one is pretty nice and is complete.  It is not all banged up or rusty - the fenders have a couple of cracks, the paint on the fuel tank is a bit faded and there are some areas where touch up paint was brushed into scratches.  The engine was running for a while - but then it got to where it was really hard to start...then it wouldn't start at all unless you kicked and kicked and kicked......then it would start and the engine would race - I think the crank seals are leaking air which is a huge air leak on a 2 stroke engine.  The bike does not have a title - and I may try to get one from VT if I decide it is worth spending the money to get one - but if I just ride it around the farm or to church on Sunday mornings I may not bother.  Luckily it appears the crank seals can be replaced without splitting the center engine case - it will just need the stuff taken off both ends of the crank (magneto and drive gear).

This will be a project for later on - after I get the Ninja Cafe' up and running.



http://suzukicycles.org/K-series/K15.shtml

Looks all there , fun restoration , a survivor , very cool !

Oh to be 15 yrs old again. In the late '60's, a neighbor kid had one of those, beat the crap out of it and it still ran. My brother and another friend had the street version which they got from an MC rental business liquidation. At the time, I was riding a Honda S90. None of us had a drivers license yet, so we were content to terrorize all the nearby farms and woods.

Gary:

When I first started riding, the "cool" places to ride were in the abandoned strip mines.  They were scattered around the area where I lived, and they had plenty of haul roads and flat areas to ride on, and really steep hills.  The "bad boy" motorcycles at the time was the SL350 - it was the bike best suited for climbing up the steep hills in places where there were no paths to follow - they could claw their way up the loose shale banks.  In 1968 - 1970 the choices for bikes to ride off road was pretty limited.  Yamaha/Suzuki/Kawasaki/Honda all made Enduro bikes - but if you wanted a real race bike it had to be a Husky/Bultaco/Montessa/CZ/Maico/Ossa/Penton/Hodaka....or the even more obscure stuff like AJS or some kind of an engine in a Rickman frame.  Before long he Japanese companies started to make good off road/race bikes.

Very cool bike, Dave!  I grew up in rural Southern California where dirt bikes were king (San Diego East County).  The bikes just coming into play were the Husky's, Hodakas and a couple from the Japanese manufacturers.  That was in the late 70's/early 80's so a little after your new little beauty there!

Off topic here, but since you are a moderator and it relates to your posts....
I notice the pics you include in your posts don't display when I'm using my work internet connection (on a PC or my Android phone).  If I disable WiFi on my phone and reload the page using data, I get the pics.  I know there are probably restrictions in place on the connection here, but other pics will display (like the one Serowbot posted).  Any thoughts on that?

Dave ,

if ya have to put a different motor ... the China copy of the honda 50cc goes up to 125cc.   I've got a 100cc version that looks like it would fit on  the old 65cc honda I had for a first bike.   Your Hill-Billy looks like a 2cycle version of the same thing.

If ya find ya need it let me know ,  

A title is required if you sell it. In some states you can get plates and insurance without ever showing a title. Just the VIN, make, model, and an honest face and you should be good.
Ohh, well , maybe you should get your wife or maybe Lili, surely Someone you know has an honest face.
Seeing the picture after reading what it's designed for, and looking at the front travel, the overall Moped look, I went back and looked at the dates.. Yeah, that was definitely pre Elsinor 250,,
Get healthy sprockets and chain on it, tune it, maybe spill some model airplane fuel in it and go beat up on some Harleys leaving the light.
Otta have them for fifty feet..
It's in good hands, paint looks like it would clean up. I'd probably go straight for function, repair cracks, and let it look like the survivor it is.
The hill climbing setup otta be a shocker leaving a stop sign.
You gonna hafta build a derailleur.

Does it have a separate oil tank, and it's Supposed to mix it for you?
I'm kinda leary of that, but it might be perfectly fine.

My first bike was a 1965 Suzuki T-10 in '66.  Great little machine.