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Messages - Vreagh

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British Bikes / Re: Spanners and sockets
« on: January 20, 2021, 09:48:39 AM »
I'm restoring a 1930s Francis Barnett Black Hawk with Royal Enfield hubs and was supprised to find the spindles on both are 7/16 unf. Perhaps it was done to ensure the correct nuts were used. I would have thought that unf was quite rare in the 30s.

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British Bikes / Re: Spanners and sockets
« on: January 19, 2021, 02:49:11 PM »
I worked for an old firm of engineers in the early 60s and had to be careful when getting nut and bolts from the stores. Some of the bins still had large hex mixed in with small. I also was told the change was due to material shortage during the war.

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British Bikes / Re: Hand gear change
« on: November 27, 2020, 03:29:05 PM »
Seller on Ebay parkwoodproductscouk (looks like he may also have a website). Based in Leiston Suffolk, he supplies metal work for veteran and vintage bikes also one offs. I've been using him for some years and all good. No conection except as a satisfied customer.

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European and Other Bikes / Re: Help needed super sport tt
« on: August 27, 2020, 09:56:07 PM »
I've a villiers carb on my 196tt fitted to my FB black hawk

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British Bikes / Re: bsa c11 c12 frame numbers
« on: August 25, 2020, 10:10:35 AM »
Don't know about the C12 but as far as I know, all C11 bikes were fitted with C10 frames and marked as such. Best get on the c10c11c12 forum and ask the real experts.

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British Bikes / Re: bsa c15
« on: April 26, 2020, 11:17:06 AM »
Ford black cherry is a good start.

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Identify these bikes! / Re: Swallow Sidecar Company / identify sidecar
« on: April 24, 2020, 09:23:51 AM »
Didn't Watsonsians take over Swallows some years ago? Perhaps they still have records.

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British Bikes / Re: 1951 Royal Enfield drive side assembly - help needed
« on: April 20, 2020, 09:59:51 AM »
All my bullets have a single lipped roller as the inner bearing.

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British Bikes / Re: Can you identify this bike?
« on: January 03, 2020, 05:20:46 PM »
It could be any one of the FB models of 1928 to '32. Referred to as "built like a bridge" frame. They had 150 or 200cc Villiers engines and some had autolube. Mine is a Black Hawk but there was also a Lapwing and possibly others. Normally named after birds (feathered types).

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European and Other Bikes / Re: Terrot MT 1, 100cc 2 stroke: non-starter!
« on: December 04, 2019, 09:47:43 AM »
A new coil is useless without a good condenser and clean points.

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British Bikes / Re: Searching for tank origine .......
« on: October 21, 2019, 05:54:00 PM »
A C11 would have small screw holes forward of the kneepad holes, but thay might have been filled. Also on the offside underneath were mounts for a bicycle type tyre pump

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British Bikes / Re: Searching for tank origine .......
« on: October 21, 2019, 09:11:13 AM »
Looks very similar to a bsa C11 plunger tank to me.

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The Classic Biker Bar / Re: Importing Vintage Engine parts from UK
« on: October 14, 2019, 02:37:45 PM »
Have sent parts to and received parts from Aus with no problems, although there might be import duty above a certain value.

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