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British Bikes / Re: Chater-Lea
« on: March 05, 2017, 10:38:21 AM »
not popular, is an understatement, but VMCC marque specialist would be the obvious place to turn, even though to do so sticks in my gullet ;).

They'll want access to his wallet though ::) ::)


Now, what Chaterlea has he got is more interesting.

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British Bikes / Re: 1930 Royal Enfield Model c with no lights or anything electrical, original?
« on: March 03, 2017, 12:16:11 PM »
Just start at the beginning and work through it all slowly and methodically, not just the engine but cycle parts a well, if you take it all to bits, you won't ride it again this year.

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British Bikes / Re: 1930 Royal Enfield Model c with no lights or anything electrical, original?
« on: March 03, 2017, 10:11:24 AM »
Its like those ebay listings,

a"fortune spent, just needs finishing, " ;D

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British Bikes / Re: 1930 Royal Enfield Model c with no lights or anything electrical, original?
« on: March 02, 2017, 08:20:14 PM »
What you are finding out is the wisdom of checking over the esentials before worrying over what "looks right".

As for the carb, strip it clean it, seat the float needle, check the washer under the large union.

Try and find out how to adjust the gear change linkage, that would cause jumping out of gear or it could just be the gearbox is buggered.

Personally I don't like the way the rod seems to have been bent to clear the non standard magneto.

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British Bikes / Re: Norton (??) brake cable.
« on: March 01, 2017, 04:36:54 PM »
Rear Brake?

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British Bikes / Re: Triumph 3ta/5ta rewire from scratch
« on: February 26, 2017, 10:36:29 PM »
A lot of these replacement harnesses do not conform to Lucas colours. Also the makers try to make them suit as many different bike years as possible to maximise profit. So you might well have surplus circuits as well as one that might suit different switch gear
A 5TA one will also suit your bike.

Did you not get a wiring diagram with the new one? I'd go back to where you bought it from for that,should have come with it.

It seems you are to go on a steep learning curve here, wiring is not really as as scary as you'd think, when I need a wiring harness I make my own, buggered if I'll pay the prices asked.

How about you take a good clear photo of the harness laid out flat on a good  flat surface with all its ends laid out and I'll see if I can suss where it all goes?

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British Bikes / Re: Triumph 3ta/5ta rewire from scratch
« on: February 26, 2017, 08:36:30 PM »
google is your freind here,  input ' Triumph 3ta wiring diagram', dozens come up, too many for me to sort through.

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British Bikes / Re: British motorcycle history
« on: February 26, 2017, 05:12:37 PM »
Ah yes that prime example of workers running the industry they love so well.

Bloody Meridan Co-op, what a bunch of tossers they were.

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British Bikes / Re: British motorcycle history
« on: February 26, 2017, 11:49:46 AM »
From my local charity shop I bought two volumes of post war history, first one covers the years 1945-51 and the second 1951-7, very enlightening reading,once because it further informs me of the misery I was born into and of my parents struggles, the end of that leading and continuing into the second volume  is very
enlightening about the machinations of the Labour party and the bloody mindedness of the, mostly welsh and northern led, unions who I hold equally responsible for the destruction of industry.

One side obcessed with dogma and power grabbing, the other with profit and power grabbing.

I've been on strike once in my life, working in a closed shop, had no choice, but it was in support of workers in another industry way up north; I remember thinking how bloody pointless and I 've lost a days wages.

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British Bikes / Re: British motorcycle history
« on: February 26, 2017, 10:18:43 AM »
Thats nearly as ugly and impractical as the 3 wheeled rubbish I see about these days.

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British Bikes / Re: British motorcycle history
« on: February 25, 2017, 08:57:13 PM »
Gold plated Rex,

you couldn't make it up,and evidently she had five of them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/classiccars/11087492/Luxury-limousine-that-nearly-brought-down-Daimler-to-go-under-the-hammer.html

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British Bikes / Re: British motorcycle history
« on: February 25, 2017, 06:53:51 PM »
Quote
It is hard to understand how a company so big and diversified as BSA could not take on and beat the Japanese in 1959

management

check out Lord and Lady Docker. They bled BSA dry and buggered it up.

after the death of the last Collier Brother AMC management was similar, more interested in matching numbers on their Rolls Royces than anything else.

What you see here  is the seed sowing of the contempt for their workers and the buyers of their products that has led to todays backlash against the establishment, Brexit for example, the Eton boys and their pals know best.

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British Bikes / Re: British motorcycle history
« on: February 24, 2017, 01:58:43 PM »
ah, innovation is different from perfection. Never said that.

I think Sunbeam had an order from the French in WW1, and probably BSA and Triumph.

I don't believe they were able to make steel of the strength and lightness we could either, which is why so many of their bikes were robustly made.

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British Bikes / Re: British motorcycle history
« on: February 24, 2017, 10:34:24 AM »
Got to take issue with you there Rex.
Did not Norton use Peugeot engines ?  A lot of inovation from Peugeot, First side by side twin was made by Bleriot,  by the end of the 1920s french bikes has better brakes,better tyres than us, a 1929 Terrot has bigger brakes than my 1929 Sunbeam, Several makes produced 4 cylinder engines, lots of unit construction and general use of electric lights. Enclosed valve gear was another thing seen more than here

What stifled their industry was that their govt was more anti bike than ours and insurance was ridiculous.


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British Bikes / Re: British motorcycle history
« on: February 23, 2017, 04:22:22 PM »
What a question.
I suggest you read "Whatever happened to the British motorcycle industry" by Bert Hopwood for a start.

'Motorcycle cavalcade' by Ixion for the early years


then put "decline and fall of the motorcycle industry" into google

It is incidentally a subject that has been done to death here in Uk.

Personally, having worked for a short while in one of the last remaining factories I am convinced it was government intent. Certainly they were complicit in asset stripping.

do not expect concise, concurring or rational answers.

 bonne chance, et amities motard.

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