Hejira Rotax 250 rebuild

Strip down begins

Front end off and time to start cleaning it all up!

Some of crash damage that needs repairing

Started to clean up the triple clamps with good old scotchbrite and gt85




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Wow, that’s a sweet bike! Nice to see something different!

Do you have any photos of it when it was still fitted with the CR250 engine?
Very interesting bike I hope you keep it updated.

Thanks guys, I'll carry on updating the thread during the rebuild

Unfortunately I dont have any pics with the CR motor in it

Here is a quick clip of it running before it was crashed at Pembrey (uk race rack in wales)

Hi... I know Derek the owner of Hejira, my Dad helped start the company with him in the early 1960s, my aunty who was dating Derek at the time came up with the company name, they built motocross bikes originally, I have some old programs with my Dad and Derek entered on Hejira’s. The workshop is all still on the farm in Gawcot in Buckinghamshire, UK, but I don’t think much goes on there now, Derek is involved with a race car team. He will be stoked that this is on here though as will my dad, they built some awesome bikes over the years, the carbon fibre frames, wheels etc, massive bhp 700cc+ water cooled Rotax 4-strokes for sound of the single road racing, bikes for the IOM TT, they were still building motocross bikes into the mid 90s. Great to see one being loved, keep the updates coming on here.

That’s amazing sidecar! What a small world!

I don’t know too much about the bike but be great if you can show Derek and the Hejira guys!

Little bit more done tonight, triple clamps cleaned up with good old scotchbrite and gt85, I didn’t want them polished as they would need lots of work to keep them nice, re greased the bearings and new SS hardware

Quick 5 min job on the rad cap before bed!

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Awesome work... I probably won’t see Derek until sometime this summer but I’m so stoked to tell my Dad about this, I never in a million years thought a Hejira would pop up on here...

600cc carbon framed Rotax based 4-stroke from the mid 90s....

You guys might have seen this already, but there's a chapter dedicated to the history of Hejira in this book:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uwa4CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT150&lpg=PT150&dq=hejira+motorcycles&source=bl&ots=zYLOE6j0Ex&sig=e_Hmxxp5ZxobTqeiXaNXpqlIGKk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7ue_-r_XYAhXsI8AKHepEC1kQ6AEIVzAI#v=onepage&q=hejira%20motorcycles&f=false

Thanks Sidecar and AK for the info/links, will get hold of a copy of the book, info on google is pretty scarce on Hejira

They sounded like an awesome firm with some proper engineering and awesome ideas!

Will keep this thread going!

Found this article which is quite a good read:

http://www.hejiraracing.co.uk/files/Hejira-Press.pdf

Such cool looking bikes. Unique looking forward to seeing the finished product

Thanks for the positive comments!

Back after a business trip and back on it

One down one to go!!

Bit more done on the old girl!!

Looking nice man!!

Well I’m still alive but been busy building my pit bike supermoto

More Hejira updates to follow soon!!

Got a new CNC alloy throttle fitted and modded a pit bike brake lever to fit it

Cleaned up the 6 piston front calliper too, just needs some new pads fitting

Painted up the dash/fairing bracket

Front ends nearly done, then onto the cooling system!

Cleaned up the engine and have the carb a rebuild as well as paint up the dash/coil brackets

its coming along nicely.

great work.

Glad it’s still coming along well... You should bring it to the Brackley Festival of Motorcycling in the middle of August, Derek from Hejira will be there... Plus it’s a rad day of custom bikes, scooters, road racing demos motocross demos, trials demos, fmx, wall of death, speedway and grass track bikes basically all two wheeled disciplines are represented.

Cheers guys, I'll check out the dates and see what I'm up to

Few more jobs completed last night

Painted and heat wrapped the expansion chamber

My £25 ktm exc silencer arrived so need to make this fit!

Installed scitsu rev counter mount





so need

Rear foot rest is compete after its crash, modded the bike to take modern eBay style foot pegs

Also new brake pads and £10 Chinese temp gauge too

As a frame maker, I've followed many manufacturers(big and small) efforts over the years. Britain has had / has, so many great Motorcycle Chassis and Parts makers / engineers.

I always liked Heijira's steering head set up - the beams meeting forward and the head tube 'within' them. Something they carried over into their CF frames.

2 questions:

I assume your using a longer muffler might be down to increasing noise controls at tracks? When you see Road Registerable production bikes not passing track day noise regs - eg, Panigales - you know things are getting tight.

And, the 'Pro Squat' brake torque arm that I see in one of the above pictures. It's pretty full on in it's geometry- is there another/other mount point(s) for a more conventional floating mount? I tried the 'cross over' set up a few times, and really found it strange. How's it feel to you?

Yes the new muffler is to make it quieter for track days as like you say they are getting pretty hot on the db readings these days

No cant see another mounting point for the brake, as for the handling it seems great so far (not ridden it loads) but can certainly beat up the superbikes in the corners on the Hejira, I had a great battle with a ducati round Brands batch indy circuit, he passed me on every straight and I pass him on every corner!