Category: Dismantling

GTP ‘Before and After’ Album

Ode to a Motorsickle… Well, long promised and never seen the light of day before, here are the pictures Pud took of the GTP when he first got it back in 1968. Not in a sorry state, but 30 years old already and ‘well used’, and not exactly with a very high mileage, about 10.000….


Rigid Velocette gearbox ‘field-strip’

Promises, promises… I had promised that I would describe a quick ‘field-strip’ of a gearbox, in this case the one on the GTP, which is similar to all other pre-swingarm models. Actually the swingarm models are very similar and only differ in detail from this procedure. First to come off are the footrest and gear-change…


GTP Primary Chain Case re-assembly

Now the real fun starts! Let’s put this jigsaw back together! Please be patient, there are a lot of hi-res pictures to load on this one!! There are a couple of points to watch that, being a Velocette, it has in common with most of the other models (regarding the clutch at any rate) and…


GTP Gearbox cure…

So now I have the bike sans gearbox and drive-components on my improvised stand. And what a beauty it is, too. I must admit to having fallen in love with it, such grace and elegance, so well thought out and the solutions to save weight at NO expense to rigidity of the whole plot, simply…


GTP and pre-War MOV single-plate clutch

It is certainly not every day that anyone gets the chance to have a look at and dismantle a Velocette single-plate clutch, as fitted to the pre-war MOVs and the GTP series of bikes, so I thought that while I’m at it, I could take a few pictures and document what it looks like and…


Frame and Fork Prep

…are the last bits to be dismantled for the moment (I’ll come to the wheels later). Actually, I did the forks yesterday, just didn’t have the light to photograph them anymore. I do prefer natural lighting (i.e. daylight!) to flash or lamplight, unless looking for specific effects. The pile of bits at the tp are…


Engine OUT!

Look mum, no engine! Well, it was going to be a warm one again today, so after dropping Nancy off at work at four this morning, I decided to make myself a coffee, don my overalls (against the bl#%$#y mosquitos) and venture into the workshop…   This is as far as I had gone before,…


Head J.O.B / Fuel-Tank

You don’t have to be a ‘shrink’… to see what’s going on inside THIS head, that’s for sure! Apart from the butchery from yesterday’s tale, today we have a story about – you guessed it! – mods and rockers! Next off is the bevel gear housing, which comes off with three nuts, two directly behind…


KSS Cylinder-Head & Gears

  Or a bunch of rather butchered bits How photos can lie!! Just look at this picture above, for example! Looks magnificent! The start of a superb new project, almost finished, even!! WRONG! And so the voyage of discovery goes on. Only trying to turn the engine by the crankshaft damper (no clutch or chain)…


MAC / Bike-Work-Bench

And with it, a new project! But first the old must be let go, to embrace the new… …and consequently so is the break in transmission…The break over Christmas and the New Year is handy to catch up with friends and family, regardless of religious beliefs, and I enjoy taking the time out and respect…