Seems like everything is coming to a head at once at the moment.
Toddy has been cracking on with the frame for my 45 project, this is gonna be cool as hell, and can't wait to get it on the road!
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
45's a roller!
Sunday, 17 June 2012
Monday, 11 June 2012
Early Birthday Present
My birthday in a couple of weeks - so I thought I'd treat myself to the remaining expensive part for my Indian Scout project. Its a brand new Morris Mag, so it should run and spit the mighty spark no matter how crap my wiring is!
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A lovely UPS man came to the door and demanded the Import duties before he handed it over. Was a bit pissed to start with - but royal mail charge a 8-12 pound handling fee to send you a card in the post and you to go pick it up. No handling fee involved here!
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A lovely UPS man came to the door and demanded the Import duties before he handed it over. Was a bit pissed to start with - but royal mail charge a 8-12 pound handling fee to send you a card in the post and you to go pick it up. No handling fee involved here!
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Skinny bobs
So I've had a bit of time out - shit to do round the house, work to catch up on etc....
Anyways - popped over to see Toddy yesterday to discuss the frame for the 45. Its full steam ahead with it now, and he's gonna be getting on with it in my absence.
I scored an old set of fatbob tanks a while back - came with a lot of parts, that i sold on and made a tidy profit on. Anyways - these were part of the deal, plenty of surface rust, but I thought they may just work for the bike. I've seen loads of cool bikes in Greasy Kulture, and Dice, plus all the blogs with skinny 2 part tanks, so I just had to have a blast at that!.
Took them with me to Toddy's, and he agreed that with a suitable amount of cutting they would work a treat.
Toddy marked up with masking tape on the first one where he thought - couldn't agree more, so when I got them out the car about an hour ago I couldn't just leave them like that.....
Got some tape and marked the second tank. This was my first lay of the tape and I stuck with it rather then fannying about with it...
Cut the first one, and you can see how much has gone from it...
Its amazing the difference between the shapes of the 2 tanks on the bottom. luckily they will be blanked off and stay as 2 halves. The plan is that they will run either side of the frame, so will appear slightly wider. Toddy suggested running a bit of metal down the top of the tank, so I can have the illusion that they are on top of the frame rails.
I'll get cracking on cleaning them up another day, but i'm really happy with having them sussed out.
Anyways - popped over to see Toddy yesterday to discuss the frame for the 45. Its full steam ahead with it now, and he's gonna be getting on with it in my absence.
I scored an old set of fatbob tanks a while back - came with a lot of parts, that i sold on and made a tidy profit on. Anyways - these were part of the deal, plenty of surface rust, but I thought they may just work for the bike. I've seen loads of cool bikes in Greasy Kulture, and Dice, plus all the blogs with skinny 2 part tanks, so I just had to have a blast at that!.
Took them with me to Toddy's, and he agreed that with a suitable amount of cutting they would work a treat.
Toddy marked up with masking tape on the first one where he thought - couldn't agree more, so when I got them out the car about an hour ago I couldn't just leave them like that.....
Got some tape and marked the second tank. This was my first lay of the tape and I stuck with it rather then fannying about with it...
Cut the first one, and you can see how much has gone from it...
Then cut the second one....
Its amazing the difference between the shapes of the 2 tanks on the bottom. luckily they will be blanked off and stay as 2 halves. The plan is that they will run either side of the frame, so will appear slightly wider. Toddy suggested running a bit of metal down the top of the tank, so I can have the illusion that they are on top of the frame rails.
I'll get cracking on cleaning them up another day, but i'm really happy with having them sussed out.
Saturday, 2 June 2012
Gearbox mounts for the 45
Toddy has got on with the mounts for the 45 build. You maybe thinking- that's now a 45 box, it's a BSA one- correct! We're using a BSA box for this custom bike.
Beautiful work as we can always expect from Toddy!
Can't wait to get back cracking with this!
Monday, 21 May 2012
Dirt Quake
Dirt Quake was a really great event. Tombo and me went down on the bikes, thought it was gonna be a very wet ride, but it turned out to be fine!
Showed up and left the bikes - I never remember to take pics of my own bike - so pinched these from Detroit Chris' blog (was lovely to meet his good lady too!)
Me and Tombo watching the action!
This was bloody lovely - I would still have taken Milo's 45 home before this - but it was clean as a whistle and given me plenty of food for thought when I get round to mine...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
best laid plans and all....
Well......
Had battery issues, so had to use a huge battery. No room in the electrics box, so taped it to the tank for the MOT
As for the MOT, I didn't ACTUALLY make it to the test centre, so it didn't fail...
Broke down or cut out around 7-8 times in 9 miles as I tried my best to get across Leeds to the test centre. The best was 10 yards onto the busiest roundabout in Leeds when the main fuse popped. I had to push- sprint the bike to safety
So I managed to get it 1/2 a mile from the test centre when it cut out the last time ( due to the carbs).
At this point I wished I had an electric foot, had eaten or drunk in the last 4 hours, or had the energy to keep kicking. Unfortunately none were available.
I attempted to call upon the strength of 10 tigers, but my phantom powers were absent.
It's then I saw that I was 20 mins late and a greggs was 100 yards down the road!
Regained my strength, phoned the guy to apologise, and phoned a mate with a van...
I then pushed the bike 3 1/2 miles half way across Leeds to my mates place - that was fun!!!
I did get some good shots though...
That's my bike building limit reached for a while. Not too disappointed, didn't really have enough time to set it up.
Gonna have a couple of weeks off it now, and just ride when I get chance.
Had battery issues, so had to use a huge battery. No room in the electrics box, so taped it to the tank for the MOT
As for the MOT, I didn't ACTUALLY make it to the test centre, so it didn't fail...
Broke down or cut out around 7-8 times in 9 miles as I tried my best to get across Leeds to the test centre. The best was 10 yards onto the busiest roundabout in Leeds when the main fuse popped. I had to push- sprint the bike to safety
So I managed to get it 1/2 a mile from the test centre when it cut out the last time ( due to the carbs).
At this point I wished I had an electric foot, had eaten or drunk in the last 4 hours, or had the energy to keep kicking. Unfortunately none were available.
I attempted to call upon the strength of 10 tigers, but my phantom powers were absent.
It's then I saw that I was 20 mins late and a greggs was 100 yards down the road!
Regained my strength, phoned the guy to apologise, and phoned a mate with a van...
I then pushed the bike 3 1/2 miles half way across Leeds to my mates place - that was fun!!!
I did get some good shots though...
That's my bike building limit reached for a while. Not too disappointed, didn't really have enough time to set it up.
Gonna have a couple of weeks off it now, and just ride when I get chance.
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