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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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Japanese Bikes / Re: 74 TX650 cafe.racer build.
« on: March 01, 2024, 06:23:25 PM »
Ah, so it's not  spoked wheel vs mag wheels, but tubed vs tubeless.
Thankfully not a choice I have to make as all my bikes (and any I would buy in the future) would have tyres and tubes fitted by virtue of their age. Haven't you got a Norton of some sort? Does it make you windy riding that on tubed tyres?
Personally I wouldn't try and repair any sort of flat by the roadside...that's what Mr Samsung is for.

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Japanese Bikes / Re: 74 TX650 cafe.racer build.
« on: March 01, 2024, 12:47:55 PM »
Spoked wheels cause punctures? Who knew? Now you tell me after (ahem ahem) decades of riding old spokey wheel bikes.
This is sure to call fate, but the only flat I've ever had when out of the road was on a Yahama with cast wheels. Go figure, as our US cousins like to say.

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Japanese Bikes / Re: 74 TX650 cafe.racer build.
« on: March 01, 2024, 09:48:17 AM »
Nice work! Good to see you replaced those horrible wagon wheel mags too.

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British Bikes / Re: royal enfield 355 1929
« on: February 10, 2024, 01:42:07 PM »
Clue...if it's smoking like a WW1 destroyer chasing subs it's over-oiling.. ;)

Not as fatuous as it sounds. I have a Scott (obviously also total loss oiling) and some owners think that having the oil pumps WFO is a good thing, but there's no need for it. A light blue haze when working hard is more than adequate.

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British Bikes / Re: Tiger T100s 500cc engine knock
« on: February 10, 2024, 09:18:30 AM »
probably get more replies if you start a new thread about Villiers spark plugs?

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British Bikes / Re: 1950s Francis Barnett
« on: February 02, 2024, 09:51:41 AM »
There was a tidy restored BSA B40 on Ebay recently, and the price was quite low too. Turns out that at some time in the past some t*at had poorly restamped the frame and engine numbers and the BSAOC declined to issue a dating letter (quite rightly).
Engine numbers are no biggie, but it would need a reframe to get around the iffy frame numbers.

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British Bikes / Re: Tiger T100s 500cc engine knock
« on: January 31, 2024, 04:25:35 PM »
My old T100S had the plain bush main bearing. I think it was a model designation which only lasted from 1967 to the 1970 model year.

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British Bikes / Re: Ambassador Series 1
« on: January 08, 2024, 05:24:01 PM »
A Guide to Ambassador Motorcycles? That's a best-seller right there.. ;)

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