Reasons to be cheerful

**sidecar bob** · 26th July 2018, 20:04

Im spending the last few days re commissioning this stunning 0W01 thats been parked up for a few years.
Can't really complain about how life has been treating me since I sold the BMW garage.

**Katman** · 26th July 2018, 20:13

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

Im spending the last few days re commissioning this stunning 0W01 thats been parked up for a few years.
Can't really complain about how life has been treating me since I sold the BMW garage.

At the risk of sounding like a peasant - I'm not really seeing the 'stunning'.

**sidecar bob** · 26th July 2018, 20:17

Originally Posted by Katman

At the risk of sounding like a peasant - I'm not really seeing the 'stunning'.

Theres actually a few bits missing off it in the pic, but I didn't expect you to notice that. and yep, you do sound like a peasant.
Sorry, no conspiracy here. Move on.

**F5 Dave** · 26th July 2018, 20:39

No that is cool. Real cool.
Micron. . Meh, but that's just a preference thing.

**husaberg** · 26th July 2018, 21:02

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

Theres actually a few bits missing of it in the pic, but I didn't expect you to notice that. and yep, you do sound like a peasant.
Sorry, no conspiracy here. Move on.

I wouldn't worry about katspam he would only think its cool if it had a half naked member of the village people sprawled out on it.

**Grumph** · 26th July 2018, 21:06

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

Im spending the last few days re commissioning this stunning 0W01 thats been parked up for a few years.
Can't really complain about how life has been treating me since I sold the BMW garage.

Is that screwdriver holding the table up ? Bit casual if it is.....can do better.

I fired up my new workshop heater today in the now much more open plan workshop....raised the temp 5 deg C in 15 minutes on half throttle.
Much better than the old pot belly stove could achieve. Working there in winter looks much more attractive.

**sidecar bob** · 26th July 2018, 21:13

Originally Posted by Grumph

Is that screwdriver holding the table up ? Bit casual if it is.....can do better.

Noo, that's my magnetic stick thingy lying on the floor.
It's one of Robbies old workshop lifts, weighs a ton. You would need a f ing big screwdriver to hold that thing up, even without a bike on it.

**Grumph** · 26th July 2018, 21:26

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

Noo, that's my magnetic stick thingy lying on the floor.
It's one of Robbies old workshop lifts, weighs a ton. You would need a f ing big screwdriver to hold that thing up, even without a bike on it.

I know the style of lift well. Alan Bland down here used to import them. Once the cheap Chinese ones arrived it took him literally years to get shot of the last ones.

**sidecar bob** · 27th July 2018, 16:39

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

No that is cool. Real cool.
Micron. . Meh, but that's just a preference thing.

Now here's a reason to be cheerful.
I suggested to the owner of the 0W01 today, that the Mike Ron was the only non original part on the bike & it kind of ruined it a bit & what would he think about finding a good used standard muffler on e bay.
He gestured to a huge pile of various boxes in the corner of the workshop & assured me that the original muffler came with the bike & if I would like to go digging, it's in there somewhere.

**husaberg** · 27th July 2018, 18:26

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

Now here's a reason to be cheerful.
I suggested to the owner of the 0W01 today, that the Mike Ron was the only non original part on the bike & it kind of ruined it a bit & what would he think about finding a good used standard muffler on e bay.
He gestured to a huge pile of various boxes in the corner of the workshop & assured me that the original muffler came with the bike & if I would like to go digging, it's in there somewhere.

So you have a RC30 and a OW01 in the workshop at present....

**Grumph** · 27th July 2018, 19:19

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

Now here's a reason to be cheerful.
I suggested to the owner of the 0W01 today, that the Mike Ron was the only non original part on the bike & it kind of ruined it a bit & what would he think about finding a good used standard muffler on e bay.
He gestured to a huge pile of various boxes in the corner of the workshop & assured me that the original muffler came with the bike & if I would like to go digging, it's in there somewhere.

Mmmh, once you remove the Micron, it becomes just another stock OW. This is why I'm always keen to see if a bike should stay as found.
If for example, it's been photographed with someone interesting or been to somewhere special with that can on, you lose that history...

Museums around the world are full of dead stock bikes....boring.

Edit - I can quote an example. Mate has a 250 which is built from a Mk4 KTT Velocette. It's got an early 50's Triumph fork and a homemade swingarm conversion. It's got Cust history like that. We agreed when I went through it that although putting it back to a standard KTT was quite feasible and would increase it's value enormously, we wouldn't do it because the history would be lost. I can see that when he falls off the perch, it'll probably go to Auckland and go back to a std KTT.....