Primary and Clutch Progress

Chipping away with the bike - working on my "Metric Primary" a reverse of the imperial ribbed primaries. Also got the foot controls sorted on the clutch (left hand side) of the bike - modified Harley JD clutch mounted on tyre levers!

Peoples Champ 3 - VOTE NOW!

Voting has started!

you can cast your vote on www.showclassmag.com - and see all the bikes that are in the running. You will also be able to vote on Instagram and Chopcult - there will be a weighting on each platform that will collectively add to the final score/rating.

Please only vote once for your pick - but multiple votes will see all of them cancelled.

Hope I can get my British / American infusion to the next round and ultimately to the states!

From a Barn in Leeds, West Yorkshire to Born Free in California - now if that isn't an american dream I don't know what is!

oil tank mount

Been cracking on with the bike. Its nice that I'm still not rushing and have the time to make nice parts. I made the mount for the front of the oil tank to look like the standard one. 3mm mild steel plate all cut and bent up.

Just a nice satisfying task to undertake really.

The 345 - monster weekend

My lovely wife gave me the weekend to push on with the bike. I lost so much time over Christmas with us all, being ill, but i'm all caught up now.

So to keep it short - I brazed and welded up the frame and got it off the jig. Did some of the finishing on the frame, and then got the bike back on the bench. The new back end meant that the pipes no longer matched the line of the frame tubes, or met the sissy bar, so they had to be cut in a number of places and changed up. 

I also cracked on with the oil tank. I'm hiding the oil lines in the battery box cut out, so i'm using the old outlets to mount some switches for the lights and the mag cutoff.

a great weekend of progress - I even tidied up my bench!

The 345 - Big push...

Will be cracking on with the project shortly, Festive break and Illness have caused holdups - but I'll be flat out with it soon as!

Had the timeframes for various points in the competition - March will see you guys voting to get the list of 25 down to 13!

Showclass peoples champ 3 last 25

So I put my name in the hat for the showclass magazine peoples champ build a while back. It's a competition that feeds into the born free show over in LA.

To my amazement the 345 got selected to make the last 25 bikes in the competition!

Can't wait to get cracking on her in the new year, so many talented builders involved so I need to bring my A game and then some!

Fake casting - the 345

Spent last Thursday night making a fake casting for the back of the 345. Nice little bit of fabrication work - needs plenty of cleaning up still, but getting close to how I want it to be.