What have you done with your bike/s today?

[Worty]

Heh, trying to work it out on Google one way, but obviously your trip was a bit more 'circuitious'. 

"The Bronze.....take our pride." (Toecutter, beach scene.  Mad Max (1979)).  There were some lovely bikes in that film.

Do you know where the scenes were filmed?

[muskrat]

G'day Worty.
100miles up, 200 miles home the long way so I call it the big long block! I fell into the tent at 4am, up at 6am, on the road by 9am.

If you mean Stone (1974) was filmed around Sydney. Gore Hill Cemetery, Middle Head, the new Sydney to Newcastle freeway, Pitwater.
Cheers

[BagONails]

Spent the afternoon doing a bush conversion on the swinging arm of the Road Rocket project.

Hi CB, Did you replace the rubber/metalastic ones with the later (Triumph?) plain bush and bobbin type? I've done this on my current A65 Spitfire project (sorry guys!). There are still short comings I think, the worst of which is the lack of any proper seals and the fact you need to completely fill the swing arm pivot tube with grease...In the end I turned up a big plastic spacer just to reduce the amount of grease in there and fitted sections of push bike inner tube over the ends to keep the rain out. Mine had about .010" end float when I was done but no measurable play in the bearings which is the main thing I think. 

[Worty]

If you mean Stone (1974) was filmed around Sydney. Gore Hill Cemetery, Middle Head, the new Sydney to Newcastle freeway, Pitwater.
Cheers

Never heard of Stone, but just seen a bit of it on YouTube.  Was Mad Max shot in Oz?  I was assuming so from the number of Aussie actors.

[muskrat]

If you mean Stone (1974) was filmed around Sydney. Gore Hill Cemetery, Middle Head, the new Sydney to Newcastle freeway, Pitwater.
Cheers

Never heard of Stone, but just seen a bit of it on YouTube.  Was Mad Max shot in Oz?  I was assuming so from the number of Aussie actors.

G'day Worty.
Yes MM was as well but a lot later. https://giggster.com/guide/movie-location/where-was-mad-max-filmed.
Cheers

[Macbeth]

I watched that movie so many times in the 80's when I was living in Sydney... they were those very chilled 'hire a video' nights  . We all lived in a house out west (all of us were military) & there were 11 bikes in the shed. Sad to see Hugh Keays-Byrne (the toe-cutter) died a few years back. I loved his character in Stone & Mad Max.... "Kundalini wants his hand back" best line ever

[BagONails]

Interesting, I've never seen Stone but will look for it now. Loved MM when it came out being an impressionable 17 year old at the time, I can still see the Toe Cutter's mad staring eyes just before the truck hits him 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(1974_film)#:~:text=Stone%20is%20a%201974%20Australian,film%20by%20company%20Hedon%20Productions.&text=Police%20officer%20Stone%20goes%20undercover,their%20members%2C%20one%20by%20one.

[berger]

i don't know how i do it on a small budget, i decided to change urma the yondas left fork leg seal and the damper in the bottom decided to spin in conjunction with the allen bolt that holds it in. i could feel it turning with a long brass rod i put down the fork leg oh dear what do i do?    i get a piece of central heating copper pipe and lightly tap it down into the fork leg damper, then put the mole grips on the copper pipe and warn up the allen bolt, wahey damper stops turning and bolt comes out with no damage done, i am now in the process of patenting this idea

[Worty]

i don't know how i do it on a small budget, i decided to change urma the yondas left fork leg seal and the damper in the bottom decided to spin in conjunction with the allen bolt that holds it in. i could feel it turning with a long brass rod i put down the fork leg oh dear what do i do?    i get a piece of central heating copper pipe and lightly tap it down into the fork leg damper, then put the mole grips on the copper pipe and warn up the allen bolt, wahey damper stops turning and bolt comes out with no damage done, i am now in the process of patenting this idea

Genius Bergs, but how does the pipe jam the damper??  Is it that it's a close fit, and is it 15mm or 22mm?  Just wondered 'cause I like troubleshooting probs myself.

[Swarfcut]

  I was faced with a similar hex socket down at the bottom of a fork tube, Yamaha XS 650. Found a hex bolt to fit, tack welded it to to a length of steel tube...old style conduit. Now the bolt head is the business end of a long allen key, then welded on a cross T handle, out it came. Easy Peasey.

 Swarfy.

[berger]

worty the bolt goes through the fork leg bottom and into the damper tube that was turning with the bolt, the tube is hollow and the piece of 15mm copper pipe just slightly shrunk into the damper, you can see where it was tarnished and where it went in has cleaned it up.

[Joolstacho]

C'mon Berger, there's room for at least 2 more 'bikes in there...

[berger]

Joolstacho well i do need room to lie down and think when things don't go to plan. there is a third of course the berglar build with bits and pieces stored in the house and garage------ somewhere ,,,,,, now where did i put the forks, i remember upstairs in the bedroom. i can't miss the engine it's on the workbench in the kitchen

[Joolstacho]

Yes Bergs... Correct... keep your beloved in the bedroom and the kitchen 

[Worty]

Yes Bergs... Correct... keep your beloved in the bedroom and the kitchen 

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