What have you done with your bike/s today?

[Black Sheep]

Committed an act of heresy. Woke the Norton from a 2 year slumber and took it for a brief run. Delighted to say the tin chaincase leak is finally cured! Miracles do happen.   

[Butch (cb)]

Fixed up the damage on Blue the T3 from the slide down the road the other week (I'm OK, someone else was on it at the time - always embarrassing). Might put the crash bars in for rechroming over winter.

Took the Black Pearl (V50 II) out for a test ride Saturday after refitting the gearbox for a second time. No neutral light despite having a new switch, and more importantly - not able to engage first after each time I pull up. Is the box gonna be coming out for a third time?

Sunday I was on my long range SP off roading locally with a couple of chums. Boy is it muddy and wet in places out there. And waterproof MX boots aren't much cop when the water comes over the top. Took 2.5 hours to get the bike properly cleaned up again afterwards.   

   

[muskrat]

G'day Fellas.
Gasket kit arrived last week so today I bought 5 meters of 0.8mm gasket paper. Spent most of the day copying the kit onto the paper, enough for 4 full sets, punched all the holes. Today I'll cut them all out trying not to loose any fingers. Still enough left for a few sets for the Rhonda and HD and probably another few sets for the BSA's. So a $200 roll of paper makes well over $1000 worth of gaskets. Must be the Scott in me!
Cheers

[RichardL]

Awkward spelling of "Scot" in that sentence, Musky.

Richard L,

[bsa-bill]

Awkward spelling of "Scot" in that sentence, Musky.

unless talking water cooled two stroke

[muskrat]

Flaming keyboard sometimes addds letters sometimes leves them out.
Cheers

[berger]

well musky,  I do hope you tried all your gaskets on a stripped down engine and box because if it's the same set of gaskets I bought and did the same thing I had to alter loads of holes when fitting them to cases, I thought it was my marking out punching and cutting until I tried the ones from the set

[bsa-bill]

Flaming keyboard sometimes addds letters sometimes leves them out.

I've got one like that, combined with auto spellchecker and my English makes for an interesting time.

I'm getting a bit nearer to riding and fettling - new shed built, fitted out with racks (storage - getting to old to go crawling in the loft), old new shed fitted with a bench and now insulating the tin roof, then move the Flash into the new old shed from it's home in the leanto shed, then cleanout the leanto shed next the garage and put the RGF in there for re resto (it's been in the garage and suffered from the damp in there and my neglect unfortunately)

[berger]

I have been blaspheming heavily today so I will tell you a story. a few years ago now I bought an expensive maggy for the bike so I could save the competition maggy for the berger build. since fitting the new carb everything has been fine until a couple of days ago when betsy beezer started miss firing pulling away from junctions. she would start first kick and tick over and once going didn't have any trouble high up in the revs. last night when I got home after a run out I decided to check for any floating or other bits in the new carb, nothing there so I carried on and had a look at the platinum points. i haven't been in that bit for ages and found a points gap of 6 thou. aha i thought this could be the problem and set them at 12 thou. i then checked pick ups and other bits and put her to bed without trying to start her up. today she fired up and didn't want to do any work at all and i had to go back home after 500 yards. i changed the points for a known good set and checked for a spark on the plugs. every now and then i managed to see a weak spark so i closed the points gap and tried again with both sets of points. at this point i know the maggy is not well and needs medicine. i bench tested my other mag and beautiful fire works come into vision using the same leads etc. so now i have more work*work* to do and more expense, it's a good job i like my bike---- sometimes.    maggy questions to follow in proper bit, thankyou for listening i need several black&tans

[Worty]

Get the Black and Tans down you mate.  I start back at work tomorrow so not getting much done on the bike   Life is improving.  The road is looking more inviting.  It's my birthday on Friday!!

[muskrat]

Many Happy Hangovers for Friday Worty.
Had to move all the bikes out of the shed so the sparky could install the new lights and power points. 6 x 4' 5700 lumen LED's and 8 double p/points. Like daylight in there now.
Took the old girl or a short ride to a job interview. They restore old steam engines and loco's. Hope I get it.
Cheers

[berger]

today I took maggy off and fitted other maggy, o what fun when I've cut the HT leads to suite the angled clip on pick ups and the bolt on ones on this mag have left me 1 inch short and I can't find my spare roll of HT lead--YET! I also studied yet again my manual advance set up and with the lever I have on the handle bars it is full advance with slack cable and cable entry to mag next to barrels . if I remember right people talk of full advance tight cable? or am I talking sh*t  again. any way maggy is on and I hope I got the fag paper release just right. one other thing that has pi**ed me off is the very very expensive cam ring I bought a good few years ago is measuring a gap of 12 and 15 thou it will do I suppose. so to cap off with fags and cups of tea and finding tools etc my 20 minute job has been 3 hours up to now. couldn't resist a piccy while pondering

[Greybeard]

Berger,
I think a clear plastic timing case would show all that blue off nicely.

[RDfella]

Full advance with slack wire. Designed that way so if your cable parts, at least you keep running.

[berger]

thanks RD, I sat studying it for ages and not for the first time and talking my way through it again.  clock wise points rotation and tight wire takes cam away from points opening retarding ignition. I have had many hours scratching my head when I think I've read somewhere it was the other way round. just confusing my retarded mind some what. the good news is even though I thought I set it up wrong over the years because of either dreaming it or reading it I haven't.  so if she fires up tomorrow after I find the illusive HT lead a black&tan is well in order