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British Bikes / Re: Brookes toolboxes
« on: April 16, 2024, 06:46:22 AM »
Interesting.
I think the 'locks' have been added.
(And if there is a key involved, it is absolutely tiny)

They are a perfect fit on an old Triumph.
And the purveyor of early Triumph parts sells Brookes replicas.
What these may have started out as ??

https://files.ekmcdn.com/wisedale123/images/toolboxes-veterans-brooks-2306-p.jpg



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British Bikes / Brooks toolboxes
« on: April 15, 2024, 10:41:17 PM »
I have come across these. Bit battered, bit crusty and a bit modified ?
They have dried out, considerably, what is best for 'revitalysing/rehydrating' them ?
They seem to be in black - unless they have been coated with something ?
Very thick heavy leather.
Would, at a pinch, fit my old Triumph project.


Closest I could find of their ancestors is these (modern remakes).
https://files.ekmcdn.com/wisedale123/images/toolboxes-veterans-brooks-2306-p.jpg

So the lock/clip has been added at some point ?
Brookes made quite a range, when you scout about ...



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British Bikes / Re: Information about a Norman Rambler?
« on: March 21, 2024, 10:55:16 PM »
Oddly enough, you can almost substitute the word Norman with Norton here, and get almost the same story !!

Almost - the technicalities vary a little.  But spread over many decades.
Damping was almost a foreign concept back in those days !
And were often a case of one step forward, one backwards and 2 sideways. ?
We diverge, so the details can wait ...

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British Bikes / Re: royal enfield 355 1929
« on: March 03, 2024, 10:40:06 PM »
Congratulations !
On several counts ...

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British Bikes / Re: George Clarke Motors a formidable force
« on: February 22, 2024, 01:43:38 AM »
Edit. I'll get this right yet !
7A is the warehouse entrance - and its writ right there on the door.

(and, oddly, the places in that street/road are consecutively numbered,
not odds and evens ??)

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British Bikes / Re: George Clarke Motors a formidable force
« on: February 22, 2024, 01:36:19 AM »
and the Spares Dept on New Park Road, close by, but does anyone remember, or even knew of, the Bike storage facility somewhere in the back streets close by the Spares Dept ?
This was a substantial warehouse behind local terraced houses, accessed through a gated tunnel and a small court-yard with a wooden office/shed.

Interesting.

How did it look ?
There is such a place just around the corner, at 6A Sulina Rd. The brick place.
There is a large warehouse out the back on the aerial view.
It currently is apparently a furniture place, with no indication on that front/garage door.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4469991,-0.1268156,3a,75y,226.97h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGo4RDv_03QdupPCwo73jdw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DGo4RDv_03QdupPCwo73jdw%26cb_client%3Dsearch.gws-prod.gps%26w%3D86%26h%3D86%26yaw%3D226.96701%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

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British Bikes / Re: Albion EJ Final drive sprocket 17T
« on: February 16, 2024, 09:48:00 PM »
I used something like that to have a sprocket "rebanded".
They machined away the blank's inner, and shrank/welded the circle of teeth onto the old ground-down sprocket's splined hub.
And heated and oil dipped it.

And used a bigger blank, for someone to retooth a cush drive hub for me.
https://i.postimg.cc/NfN3Fb78/New-teeth.jpg


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British Bikes / Re: Albion EJ Final drive sprocket 17T
« on: February 16, 2024, 01:33:11 AM »
That reminds me of someone who I came across, who had a significantly large quantity of
Norton Navigator piston rings, in various oversizes.
We calculated that based on demand, he had approx 40,000 years of supply !!
He did have rather a lot ....


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British Bikes / Re: Albion EJ Final drive sprocket 17T
« on: February 15, 2024, 12:08:54 AM »
Wasn't I ??

You have to stop thinking like a hobbyist and start thinking like a business owner.

Quote from:  
I see that Villiers Services are obviously getting a range of sprockets remade
(if they are not buying up old stock ?)
At quite reasonable prices.
So in quantity its quite economical....

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British Bikes / Re: Albion EJ Final drive sprocket 17T
« on: February 14, 2024, 10:19:37 PM »
I've had a number of sprockets rebanded.
This is quite economical.

I shudder to think what getting a spline cut might be ??
As a one off.

I see that Villiers Services are obviously getting a range of sprockets remade
(if they are not buying up old stock ?)
At quite reasonable prices.
So in quantity its quite economical....

I'm surprised they don't have the model required here ?


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British Bikes / Re: Albion EJ Final drive sprocket 17T
« on: February 14, 2024, 06:39:03 AM »
What would that cost - ballpark ?

But keep your eye out.

I have this bunch - for some model of Villiers. ?
While they look a little crusty, they clean up well.
Ex-Singapore stock, superficial cancer.
And by co-incidence, they are 17t.
Make ideal donors to reband a worn out one ?

https://i.postimg.cc/Dz1rGMxq/String-of-sprockets.jpg

Have smaller ones also - with the 5-5 splines. But only 12 teeth.

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British Bikes / Re: Albion EJ Final drive sprocket 17T
« on: February 13, 2024, 10:50:19 PM »
You have tried Villiers Services for all possible choices. ?
They have quite a range

https://villiersservices.co.uk/product/e8231-gearbox-sprocket/
etc

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British Bikes / Re: Albion EJ Final drive sprocket 17T
« on: February 13, 2024, 04:51:50 PM »
Villiers Services can supply some varieties of  Albion 17t sprocket  ??
https://villiersservices.co.uk/product/e8868-albion-gearbox-sprocket-17-tooth-12-x-316/

Its also not impossible to grind the teeth off a smaller sprocket, and shrink/weld a ring of new teeth on.

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British Bikes / Re: 1950s Francis Barnett
« on: February 08, 2024, 05:33:21 AM »
What does the fitting(s) for the tail light look like.
Round/square/oblong 1,2 or 3 holes.

Finding anything electrical and original is a black science these days.
Usually you have to make do with replica/offerings. Or get very lucky.

Here is a smattering of choices.
Anything look suitable.
Such things were often quite small back then, usually owners now opt for something bigger and more visible.
Not being rear-ended by some noddy on the phone has much to commend it ...

https://www.classicbikepartscheshire.com/electrical-c3/rear-lamps-lenses-c15/francis-barnett-t28


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