Building your own
I'm really keen on the Redline Track day on Thursday. I took her out for a bit of a scoot again and I'm really starting to get excited after riding her a little. The day started out a little late cos I couldn't be arsed getting out of bed. Probably had something to do with Nick, Brooke and Simon turning up on the doorstep at 10:30pm on Friday night with plenty of booze. I climbed into the Vodka while Brooke attacked the 2 bottles of red he bought for us (but I wasn't keen on it cos ...
Well, as you can see now Ive got a veteran Triumph frame off TardMe Lets now see about modifying it to fit the fire extinguisher petrol tank & then sort out the fork options Springers? Girders? Rigid? Hmmmmmmm Am leaning towards making a set of springers at the moment
Well I took her out for her first outing this evening and it was very interesting. The batteries haven't been holding their charge so I've had to constantly charge them. The best was showing 13.6v so I threw that in, bolted her up and cranked her over. She didn't start right away, which surprised me and made me a bit nervous, but after a couple of goes she fired and sounded very happy just burbling away at idle. I let her warm up while I climbed into my gear. I hate ...
Trini was sitting waiting for a part to turn up from the UK because the muppets had lost a spacer in the rear wheel but rode her anyway, stuffing the bearings and seals. So I shot in to see Kat at Hamilton Motorcycles and ordered that along with the front sprocket cover (muppets again). Two and a bit weeks later they turned up so I gave Brent a holler. I shot around and picked him up after we rounded up a few tools . We shot around to where Trini lives and got into it. First ...
A couple more pix close up of the 'bar assy
Bin doin a bit more collecting, polishing & assembling The 'bars are a cruiser pushbike beach bend that Ive wrapped leather straps around,added brass caps,the choke ,throttle & a Solex reverse style brake lever As you can see the headlite came up real good after a 2 hour session on the polisher,Ill be adapting a modern lens assy to it later on The Albion 3 speed 'box/clutch is already hand change that'll save a bit of mucking around
Heres a couple of inspirational pix of where Im trying to head:
We knew that she's fires up and runs. Admittedly she was running pretty rough, but she was running. So it was time to start tidying up the fiddly bits and getting her ready to hit the track. We headed around to Brents place after grabbing some things and turned up with beer and some yummy chocolate croissants from Bakers Delight. After knocking those off we headed out to the shed for the last burst before she goes to her permanent home. It was a stinking hot, muggy ...
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