Hairbrained scheme number...........

Picked up this morse code key while away in a hotel (ebay is so dangerous while left unattended!), plan is to install it as the horn button on the bike!

a mock up of the bike with its new wheels! mixed response on the NSU tank, but I have a wassell style tank winging its way to me at the moment.
hoping for my bloody yokes to be delivered this week

Tank Buttons - Sketch it up

I Guess everyone has a different way od working - I love to just pick things up and start messing with them to see what comes out. but now and again i do sit and sketch a few things out. Was sat with the good lady last night, and sketched out the new plans for the tank, included a panel I want to install to house all the main switches I need. I think this will involve a bit of cutting and butchery to the tank, but I think it will need a new tunnel anyways.

any who - I put a couple of quick flashes of colour on it and here it is. It helps me to visalise what i want / like and dislike......

Sprung Hubs N Hardtales Etch

Been trying to get the etching a bit more precise, so I asked Rowan over at http://sprunghubsnhardtales.blogspot.com/ if I could have a practice on his logo.

Rowan is a jewelery maker, and for those of you that havent seen his work, both his bikes and "bling" (sorry Rowan - you'll probably murder me for saying that) are done with a real eye for detail.

Anyways heres the plaque / sign effort - it looks wicked!

Etching

In the bits I've missed on the blog I've been playing around with electro-etching. It stemmed from the forward control pedals that i made from an old gas bottle, and i wanted to try and etch them using ferric choldide. suffice to say, after half an hour dipped in the ferric chloride, bugger all had happened, so I opted to stick some electricity through it to see if i could speed things up a bit. it worked, but it got me thinking about the whole process.

I had a bit of a practice with things and was asked to show how I had been doing it - well i did a bit of a how too on Dirty Bobbers - see here:-

http://www.dirtybobbers.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1946.0

I made some dirty bobbers badges :-

cant wait to get my bike together and get it fitted on!

Inverted levers

Havent said much about the inverted levers I got from a guy called Alan Clarke. They were a birthday present to myself back in June.

I like clean looking bars - I'm not a fan of things that are too fussy, especially if its just for the hell of it!

I saw the levers in a classic bike mag when I was in an airport - I think they were being put onto an Ariel that was the mag's renovation project. They have been made to order, and Alan was brilliant with helping me on the phone. I was able to send him my bars and he turned the "lugs" to fit the bars perfectly!

I got some cheapo grips the other day - so here they are this morning on the bars. The white wont stay that colour for long hopefully!

drawing a line....

A lot of what has been posted up to now is me catching up on where I am on the bike to date - and the blog is still a long way short of where I am!

I'm gonna try and keep the blog more current from now, certian things will be caught up with along the way............