What have you done with your bike/s today?

[Sav]

Fettled the A10SR and met two friends for a 25 mile 'Cornish Motorway' potter to a cafe for a take-away buttie.

First group run for me for over eighteen months due to covid and the hip replacement. Brilliant weather and daffodils a glorious plenty!

Great to be back in the sadlle at the front of a group ride.

[Butch (cb)]

SORNed my Guzzi V50 yesterday all ready to register as Historic.

[Butch (cb)]

Took my Sporty down for MOT this morning. It's been off the road for two years and with lockdown boredom I've done some paint and lowered the rear end. I could hear something rubbing from the rear all the way down to the test station. Sounded like a high point on the tyre (?). B-l-x. Fessed up to Steve the tester, so I'll see what he makes of it. Either ways it will be going straight back up on the table.

[muskrat]

G'day Fellas.
Last night was getting the HD ready for a 3 day memorial ride. Day 1 Lithgow to Gulgong  https://tinyurl.com/wk54u7mk  Day 2  Gulgong to Cowra https://tinyurl.com/42jxp3jt  Day 3 Cowra to home  https://tinyurl.com/8djajwut  (1200km)
Pressed the noise button and nothing. Bugga!. Spent the next two hours tracing and wriggling wires. Still not sure where the problem is. Hot wired it and she started. Warmed her up and she stopped and started on the button ten or more times. Hope she behaves but have packed the hot wire just in case.

Next week the 51 plunger's motor rebuild starts.
Cheers

[WozzA]

I took the '57 out for a good 50 something Km shake down run after replacing the head after a valve stem seal Modification, ( Thanks to Musky ) she's purrrring like a kitten & not a drip of oil to be found anywhere...    I got pulled over by the cops for not having the headlight on or indicators..  fortunately he realised I didn't need them being a Classic & let me go on my way.. I even had my club membership book filled out correctly so for the 1st time in ages I was riding completely legal which he didn't even bother to check.. 

[Brian]

"I was riding completely legal", yeah and I'm Santa Claus !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WozzA]

     well close enough..     

[Brian]

A few years ago, I wont give the location just in case, I was out for a ride on my 1955 B33 and stopped at a cafe in a small town. While parked there about a dozen coppers on bikes turned up, they had been in the area doing a traffic "blitz" and had stayed there overnight and had come to the cafe for breakfast., Anyway they all looked at my bike and commented on how great it was to see an old bike being ridden and stories of how their fathers had ridden BSA's etc etc. After looking at the bike I started it and rode away breathing a sigh of relief, the bike was not registered !

[RichardL]

Not today, but last Saturday I was searching for what had become of my magneto long bolt. It has to be somewhere, but, after a pretty thorough search, it hasn't turned it up. One thing about searching for a part is how clean the workbench gets. So, what should turn up in the middle of my workbench, instead, is one 67-331, "Exhaust Tappet Locating Pin." Oh god no! I just finished torqueing down the A7 cylinder head and now I find this!? No choice but to lift the barrels and see if I left it out. Struggle, struggle, struggle and the barrels are up to expose the locating pin in place. Turns out it was from my spare set of barrels put high up on a shelf for storage at least three years ago. Why would this part-from-hell show up after that much time, and several bench cleanings, just to torture me?

Richard L.

[berger]

been working on the yonda for a few days. for those who have worked on the 4 cylinders they will know what a pita getting the carbs on is. I coupled up the three cables and got the carbs on yesterday with the help of a hair dryer on the inlet mounts. I got the air box coupled up and then called it a day with very sore fingers. Having replaced the air box rubbers for pattern parts I found that when I put the securing bolt in through the frame it was pulling off both of the outside carb rubbers so I tried again and again altering the positions of the rubbers to get it right. nothing worked and I ended up opening up the frame to air box securing bolt hole and got them fitted perfectly...  today I realised I hadn't got the engine breather pipes on so I threaded the left hand side one up between two of the carbs, all going to plan. then I realised I had put a bolt in the right hand side breather outlet in the engine crank case to stop stuff going in it and i didn't have enough room under the air box to get it out oh dear off with the carbs and maneuver the air box and just managed to get the bolt out of the steel tube. 2 hours later all carbs and air box back in with even sorer fingers THEN realised I hadn't put the side cover on the air box that is fixed on the right hand side to make it look pretty and two of the three screw holes are hidden away and near on impossible to get the screws in!! I eventually managed it with a one  inch screw driver bit between finger and thumb and finger and finger feeling for the holes while blaspheming loudly!! 30 minutes later I had them in and managed to nip them up with a spanner slotted on to the short screw driver bit.    thankyou for listening -- when are the pubs opening because drinking black& tans is about all I am good for at this rate.... anyway forks , wheels and other bits to do yet so I am sure I will be having more fun

[RDfella]

Today finally finished the special's primary cover modifications. Has taken as long as creating the starter gearbox: not only did it need a cover for starter chain from gearbox to crankshaft but the front bulge was too small to accommodate the sprocket with chain. Anyway, done at last. Just waiting now for delivery of a gear for the gearbox to arrive. Could have made it myself in a day, but couldn't face the aggro involved.

[chaterlea25]

Hi RD
Looking good 
I gave one of those garden tractor alternators to a friend who "dressed it up" and fitted it to his custom Guzzi single.  Photos of the bike here, https://www.medaza.com/copy-of-road-fever
The bike is now in the Haas Museum in Texas

John

[Greybeard]

RD,
If you've made that cover have you sorted out the starter?

[Butch (cb)]

Took my now MOT'd XLH1200 down to visit my dear old Mum on Saturday. Ordered some new tyres for it. Two MOTs, two years and 2 miles apart with an advisory for low tread on the rear.

Made up a longer clutch cable for the A10 to go with the Western bars. Fired up OK ... first start in a long time. Had all sorts of problems with the carb and the needle seating - all mostly of my own making. Too used to Dellortos I guess. Ammeter showing no charge. Tried flashing the dynamo. Tested dynamo output. Nothing. Figure I'll leave it for now, maybe it will be self healing. It has a new battery and an LED brake light so can run total loss as required.

Pulled Zed the Rexxer and Blue the T3 out from the carport. Fitted batteries and ran them up. All good. They go for MOT on Thursday.

Took the covers off Brown the Kawa H1 and measured up for a new battery. Ordered one.

[RDfella]

Neil - starter gearbox needs a driven gear to mesh with the starter motor before I can progress that. It's the only hold-up now, which was why I contemplated making one. Would've only taken a couple of hours - but three times that to make the cutter to produce the gear.