Sunday 23 June 2013

Swallows and amazons

Had a great weekend in the lakes for my birthday with the wife. Puts it all in perspective. Family comes first and all that....

I have parted with a few projectsin the past few weeks, but treated myself to something I've been after for years. It's a 1969 volvo amazon, 2 litre engine, 4 speed box with overdrive!

Wednesday 12 June 2013

XS650 Morris Mag first run

Made the cables up early doors this morning, and played round with the bike. just over half throttle and full choke and the air filters off and it has running like this....





struggling on the right hand cylinder again, and lumpy as fuck....

had a chat with Shaun who has been having simular problems, so we decided it should try it on stock carbs to see if its a carburation issue... sure enough, it runs a hell of a lot better on a set of stock carbs.....

I think the stock carbs will be staying on it, and i'll just deal with setting them up - the VM34's will probably give better performance when dialed in properly, but for now I just want it riding.

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Thursday 6 June 2013

good little day

Not a bad little day today, Some work this morning, then finally got my mitts on the mag for my xs650. I'm lacking the HT connector leads for into thee mag, so i'll be hunting for them tomorrow.

Saw this lovely old Volvo amazon at the old bike shop. I bloody love these things, been after one for a while. I gave the guy my numbers in case he wanted to sell. I'd happily find some garage space for it!


Modified an old clutch from a lawnmower for the pint pot. Welded a sprocket on the outside of the clutch housing so I can transfer the power to the rear wheel. I think this project will be on the back burner until the relic is running now.



Tuesday 4 June 2013

Cat-patch

we are cool mofos - check out our little gay patches!

I say "our" its only me so far that's done anything with them - but I think i'm the coolest cat around!