jonw
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Post by jonw on Jul 30, 2012 11:03:42 GMT
Some piccies!!!! Matchless Trash: What comes in these? This.... a gearbox... a shiney fuel tank a rare chronometric speedo ...and lots more beside. HAve spent the weekend cleaning dirt out of it. roughly put the frame back together and put it next to the cub.... That's as far as I got before the sunshine became too tempting and I went for a ride. ;D
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Post by dungbug on Jul 30, 2012 17:42:48 GMT
On the road before summer ends surely. ;D
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jonw
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Post by jonw on Jul 31, 2012 6:57:34 GMT
Which summer?
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Post by dungbug on Jul 31, 2012 15:02:08 GMT
Which summer? ;D ;D ;D Was waiting for that.............& summer.
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Post by jonw on Aug 23, 2012 12:29:35 GMT
Hmmmmm...... not a huge amount to report that is of interest. Have been too busy of late.
GS Trash.
Poor old GS.... it's been used with very little love..... and finally threw it's toys out!
The back brake pads needed changing.... not bad.... after a day extracting the retailing pins! They had proper rotted in!!! Anyway, went to start it and nothing..... not a sausage! Battery is toatyally FUBAR! so a new battery and much testing to find the cause.
Triumph Trash.
Has been ridden.... and filled with oil and ridden... and filled with oil..... you get the idea!!! Changed the condenser, which seemed to help it a bit.
Matchless Trash
3/4 of an hour's worth of steady beating with a mallet has removed one fork leg from the yokes.... the other will need increased violence! The tyres have been removed from the rims and confirmed that the rims are in very good condition.
SV Trash
Has been mostly ridden....
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Post by jonw on Sept 20, 2012 12:16:31 GMT
Ok time to bore the pants off ya'all again.... With the modern bikes deciding to run for the time being the focus has shifted to the old tat.... Triumph trash. Ever since buying the bike I've had intermittent problems with the clutch. Finally on the way back from a ride it decided that enough was enough and stopped de-clutching. Once home the spanners came out and the problem was quickly found.... there should the a 5/32" ball bearing in one end of the pusher rod (awol) and a hardened screw at the other (or in this case a normal grub screw!) The pusher had bored a 3mm deep hole into the grub screw hence the issue.... how to resolve this.... Drill the hole a fraction deeper and loctite in a 5/32" ball bearing!!! Also put the ball bearing where it should be in the other end and the difference is amazing.... the engine actually ticks over quicker and the clutch is lovely and smooth!!! Result! Matchless Trash. Polished the tank.... see below... is the original 50 year old paint and chrome! In other news I've started stripping paint and re-painting bits.... Got to start this before the cold sets in as I'm in an un-heated garage. Will take piccies as soon as it's light when I stop work! Hoped to be lazy and paint over the original paint on the frame.... this idea vanished along with the paint at the first touch of the wire brush.... seemend it was badly re-painted at some point... out with the paint stripper!!
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Post by dungbug on Sept 20, 2012 17:00:01 GMT
That brightwork looks well considerng its age.
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Post by TerraRoot on Sept 21, 2012 19:36:17 GMT
'mazing what you can put up with, when your not sure what it should behave like, still it's working well now!
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Post by jonw on Oct 22, 2012 8:46:45 GMT
Hmmmm.... long time no update! All has been moving a pace with the bikes (apart from the matchless which isn't really in a position to move anywhere!) The cub has broken down, the GS refuse to start, the SV run lovely and the Matchless has been worked on. GS Trash. The lovely GS decided to throw it's elecrical rattle out the pram and eat another battery. Much head scraching and cursing later it was found that the regulator was intemittently spitting out 18V into the battery..... So on the the Bay of E for a second hand one. Recomendation to A1 Motorbikes as they delivered one in very short time and very cheaply. Matchless trash. Boring paperwork..... had to get the old V5 converted to a V5C in order to get the bike on the system and in my name. rather than face the hassle of doing it myself I had a guy in Cardiff called Mike Worthinton Williams (worthycomments@btconnect.com) to do the legwork. For a few quid more than the form he did the whole thing in a few days. Top bloke if you need anything out of the ordinary from the DVLA. On other fronts the painting and dissassemby has been continuing... both brakes are now apart and the first bits are nearly sprayed. Have got the proper tail light and done a deal for the proper headlight! Triumph Trash. Can I now say the Cub is cured of it's problems...... will it now stay running? I hope so. The latest culprit is the distributor. Through friends of friends a very second hand one was sourced and after spending an evening cleaning it up and swapping bits over it was put on the bike. So off to Weston Super Mare for the VOC meet. Any excuse to go to the seaside (even if it was foggy and cold) and the cub behaved faultlessly over the 85 miles covered. Here it is looking at the rides.... Now what ownes this.... capable of injesting small children... This! A Thruxton Venom... Proof that not all Vleocettes are black comes in the form of this lovely Venom ...and Venom Veeline with the Viper adding a bit of black!!!
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Post by dungbug on Oct 23, 2012 16:33:54 GMT
Good to hear the Triumph is behaving itself Those Velocettes are lovely, just love the 'fish tail' exhaust.
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Post by TerraRoot on Oct 23, 2012 22:04:39 GMT
can't say i know much about british bikes, but i can take a crack at why that bike in the last pic has a full engine case cover....
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Post by jonw on Oct 26, 2012 9:35:10 GMT
To catch oil.....?
Ironically the covers do not go under the engine. It is a pure styling exercise to hide the gubbins of the bike.
They are quite rare not as the covers were only plastic and tended to either crack or get ditched as they were in the way!
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Post by TerraRoot on Oct 26, 2012 20:04:33 GMT
I didn't want to go there,lol some people are touchy about their leaky brit bikes ;D
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Post by jonw on Oct 29, 2012 8:08:15 GMT
Time to worry is when it stops......
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Post by jonw on Nov 1, 2012 14:27:47 GMT
Arrrrggghhhhh..... The GS is still playing up! It's decided not to start again.... seems that the battery chewing may have been a red herring.... it seems that the symptoms are somthing else.... hopefully a dodgy starter switch. I true blue peter fashion.... with a battery cut off switch, some wire and much cable ties we get A manual starter switch..... bodgetastic!! still needs the key to turn the ignition on so the bike is as secure as ever. Seemed to work well this morning..... a few more goes and a new starter swich will be required.
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