Tag: Originality

Visit to Wayne… and a grumble

Space-Poor play-room… Well, I’ve been here in the UK 5 weeks now and not all has gone smoothly, not least of all the merry-go-round with the banks/licenses/ID etc. Since I have been out of the country since 1981 (!), there have been a few changes to things like Anti-Terrorism- and Anti-Money-Laundering-Legislation and -Requirements which have…


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….


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-strip #1

Own up! Anyone out there ever worked on a GTP that really ran well?? I haven’t and in fact have never had one of these ‘go through my hands’, so it is something completely new to me altogether! Apparently the problem with this one is a ‘tight’ gearbox, which has to be looked at, since…


Anyone for GTP?

This coming week looks like being an interesting one!! ‘Pud’ has decided to let me have a go at the gearbox on his early 1939 GTP, which is a bit different for me, as I’ve never actually worked on one of these bikes, or one of these gearboxes, either (the same internals, though as the…


When is a Switch worth a Swap?

What is a copy? What is a replica? Aaaah! The language thing again! Copy, let me see: According to the ‘normal’, current usage of the word, a copy is something that, looks like, and if something functional, actually functions like, something else, that this ‘copy’ proposes to replace or replicate. Hmm. Another word! : Replica!…


The Waiting Game

  Don’t we all love it? At the moment there seems to be a slight hiccup with the post, due to Easter, this time… Nevertheless, I can expect delivery sometime within a week, and then I can get on with the packing! The artwork is all finished for the packing slip, just have to print…


8-inch Miller Headlamp

How good are the copies? Well, I have the undoubted pleasure of owning an original Miller lamp shell, with an original ammeter and switch, (the ammeter pictured above is a cheap pattern which doesn’t fit…) although the switch is a later, three-position job, as available now ‘everywhere’ in pattern form; where from I don’t know…probably…


Lucas Altette? (+ some Chrome)

Honk if you’re horny! Old car-bumper stickers are the hit! (Again?) Remember the photos of the Altette I bought a while back? Just to jog your memory, that’s it in the picture above. This is what it looks like now!! Quite a transformation, considering. I disassembled it as far as I could go (the main…


Going (not so) cheap

I can’t afford to buy rubbish! I wonder what it is (apart from sheer profiteering) that makes people continue to produce absolute trash and why others will fall for it, time and again?? Where does the cycle end? Surely there is a limit reached (à la 100 monkeys), where the charlatans and their dirty dealings…