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British Bikes / Re: Tool collectors
« on: June 09, 2024, 04:25:26 PM »
Maybe people would have more luck finding stuff if they used the correct terminology, ie "Imperial" rather than "Whitworth".
Whitworth, as any fule no, is a threadform not a type of spanner.
These Imperial spanners are sold at UK swapmeets/autojumbles for a quid a time as there's no call for them. It's worth rooting through the boxes of tools just to get a range of spanners to keep with each bike.

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British Bikes / Re: Waratah speedo
« on: May 14, 2024, 09:05:39 AM »
Very effective, but so incongruous on old bikes.

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British Bikes / Re: Waratah speedo
« on: May 13, 2024, 09:06:34 AM »
I don't recall ever seeing a post-war Villiers-powered lightweight with a front wheel-driven speedo, but then as I also don't recall ever seeing a Villiers unit with a gearbox speedo connection, then it must have been from the rear wheel.
Maybe a Bantam (or similar) speedo drive would do the job?

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British Bikes / Re: Troubleshooting a JAP Special
« on: May 09, 2024, 04:12:24 PM »
Way back when these were just old bikes and things were done to eke out a little more life from them, the fix of drilling along the spline/kick starter interface and fitting a bolt, screw, roll pin whatever often featured in the "ten bob tips" columns.
Don't know that I'd want to damage old parts in this way now though. :'(

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British Bikes / Re: Troubleshooting a JAP Special
« on: May 08, 2024, 09:45:12 PM »
Looking again I'm sure you're right. I thought it was a poor pic of a perished tyre wall. ::)

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British Bikes / Re: Troubleshooting a JAP Special
« on: May 08, 2024, 11:06:21 AM »
Tread recutters were a common tool way back when, but in those days the tyre carcase was so stiff the bike stood up and rode with a flat tyre. Modern rubber is much more pliable but seems to rot quicker, as the three year old tyres on my car will attest.

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Identify these bikes! / Re: Please identify this motorbike
« on: April 25, 2024, 10:47:21 PM »
£20G's for that? It might be a rare bike but it's scrappy resto job at best.

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British Bikes / Re: Triumph Bonneville
« on: April 13, 2024, 09:55:15 PM »
Door, arse, hit.
Normal service can now be resumed. 8)

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British Bikes / Re: Choice of tyre brand and size for 1970 Tiumph 650cc twin
« on: April 13, 2024, 09:53:43 PM »
Probably you'll get ten people posting their tyre preferences and twelve different answers.
There's just too many variables when asking for tyre choices for any answer to be definitive.

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British Bikes / Re: Information about a Norman Rambler?
« on: March 22, 2024, 09:56:27 AM »
The past is truly a foreign country, as the old cliche goes.
Take Scott, postwar. Presumably they started with a blank sheet of paper with a sports bike for the new era of post-war enlightenment.

"Righto Smithers, take down the following model requirements-
1) oil injection, no premix here
2) double-sided front brake, huge back brake for max braking efficiency
3) Oleo-pneumatic Dowty forks developed from WW2 aircraft landing gear and giving a wonderfully supple and compliant ride
4) Water cooled engine for max power and efficiency."

"Very good boss, but how about the number of gears and rear suspension?"

"A three speed gearbox and a rigid rear is good enough for any chap and that's what we'll fit".
And so they did, and duly went under three years later.

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British Bikes / Re: Tiger T100s 500cc engine knock
« on: March 20, 2024, 03:55:49 PM »
So, how did the 500S engine knock turn out, or even the Villiers spark plug? ;)

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Japanese Bikes / Re: A bit of wheel building.
« on: March 05, 2024, 10:08:26 PM »
You win, old mate.

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Japanese Bikes / Re: A bit of wheel building.
« on: March 05, 2024, 06:20:14 PM »
I'll break one of my long-time rules for this bloke, Ian.
Clearly he's a $%^.
(Wouldn't most people just say "there's 3mm thread showing on the spoke"?)

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Japanese Bikes / Re: A bit of wheel building.
« on: March 05, 2024, 09:26:05 AM »
Sorry, when I read this line  "3mm of thread showing between nipples and hub" I assumed you didn't really know what you're talking about, (as there's no nipples or threads at the hub) and had written it using the full extent of your bike terminology.
Apparently I was wrong?

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Japanese Bikes / Re: A bit of wheel building.
« on: March 04, 2024, 09:08:08 AM »
Very nice too. 3mm spoke protrusion sounds fine to me, just trim them off with an angle grinder.

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