Checking parts for fit… Well, it’s been a busy week, what with this and that! The visit to Pud’s place was a highlight in more ways than one, but more of that later… I got stuck in with the back wheel setup, after turning a longer thread on the spindle and cutting it off appropriately…
Trial Assembly of -10 Gearbox
Last week I was again at the powder-coater, Marshalls, and asked about a bead blaster…he recommended one not one hundred yards from him, and so I trotted off to take my gearbox-casing, now a hollow shell. He was very friendly and quite interested and seems to do lots of bike bits for people, so I…
More Gearbox
More questions and comparisons As I noted yesterday, there are some strange things going on in these two gearboxes… I’ll start with the main-shaft again and the differences in the sleeve-gear and the shafts themselves: The picture above is of the ends of the sleeves at the clutch end, without the shaft in situ, and…
Box #2
Prewar gearbox Well, this one looks like it might be slightly more complete and slightly more ‘oil’-tight. The kick-tarter is in the usual horrendous state! I don’t know why it is, but Velocette kickstart-levers are nearly always rusted-to-…well…buggery! First thing, then, is to get the lever off! First, I have to ‘depress’ the lever about…
Gearbox Time!
Prefix 10 Velo gearbox Today I decided to take the two boxes apart and compare them… The 10-prefix one (pictured above) looked pretty dry (despite being the later one), so I thought that I would start there… Not many nuts and bolts holding this together, so no wonder that any oil that might have…
Quick look at my KSS
… as it was ‘presented’ to me for sale So, you can see, there are a few things missing to get it roadworthy in a sort-of original (at least ‘-looking’) condition. Let’s start with numbers: Engine is KSS 8468, which makes it beginning of 1938, the frame number is KDD 9266, which makes it actually…
Two Boxes of Gear(s)
Choices, choices! Having looked through my box of bits again, I dragged out the other gearbox in there…Interesting! Had a look at the numbers, of course not so obvious on the photos, but one is 5-5741 (which places it squarely in the 1939 category with one-down, three-up arrangement which would go together nicely with…
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,…
More Bits than Pieces
Started sorting through the delivery… As I began dis-assembling the package, I became more and more aware that this is just a jumble of bits more than an actual motorcycle…To be honest, I have never paid so much hard cash for a pallet-load of random parts in my life! (Things now are, of course…
Matching Numbers?
Original or not… a tale of rivet-counters. Funny, really! You know, most of the veteran/vintage/classic enthusiasts have a reputation for being rivet-counters…I knew someone once who used to count the baked-beans in the tin when he opened it…but that’s another story! Well, this time it’s a bit different, really! This bike I’m going to be…
KA169/2 Pillion footrest rubbers
Proper rigid pillion footrests
What they look like is what you get: Correct footrest rubbers for the rigid Velocette MAC, MOV, MSS and KSS. They fit original parts using the original screws AND the patterns, too
Please let me know by email if you would like some/one of these or look for them on eBay!
Peter Gouws-
Blog Titles, Chronologically
- (S)lowly starting up again 16/11/2023
- Velocette KA169/2 Rear Footrest Rubbers for rigid frames 14/11/2023
- Little ’40s Myford 3 1/8″ ML2 01/01/2019
- Footrest/Kickstart Rubber B60/2 10/06/2014
- Brooklands day!! 23/03/2014
- Rigid Velocette Top Yokes for WEBB forks 03/03/2014
- Lycett type saddles etc. 25/02/2014
- Saved rigid MSS from Australia 01/01/2014
- Visit to Wayne… and a grumble 30/11/2013
- Relocation to the UK 10/10/2013
- GTP ‘Before and After’ Album 25/09/2013
- Rigid Velocette gearbox ‘field-strip’ 10/09/2013
- GTP all back together 01/09/2013
- Velocette Kickstart reassembly 01/09/2013
- GTP Drive-side completion 24/08/2013
- GTP Primary Chain Case re-assembly 23/08/2013
- GTP full gearbox strip-down 18/08/2013
- GTP Gearbox cure… 15/08/2013
- GTP and pre-War MOV single-plate clutch 13/08/2013
- GTP Gearbox-strip #1 10/08/2013
- Anyone for GTP? 01/08/2013
- Slight Change Of Plans! 25/07/2013
- Four-stroke cycle? Nearly! 11/06/2013
- Miller Regulator Cover and More! 04/06/2013
- Miller ‘Star’ Testimonials 26/05/2013
- When is a Switch worth a Swap? 24/05/2013
- The Waiting Game 02/04/2013
- First Production Looming 15/03/2013
- ‘Racing’ Oil Tank Anyone?? 14/03/2013
- Real Glass Miller Rear Lens? 08/03/2013
- First Stampings of the ‘Star’ 05/03/2013
- New 8″ Headlamp Brackets 18/02/2013
- Slow Wake-Up after Christmas 31/01/2013
- Summer Doldrums 23/12/2012
- 8-inch Miller Headlamp 12/12/2012
- Lucas Altette? (+ some Chrome) 07/12/2012
- Miller Rear Light Update 01/12/2012
- Going (not so) cheap 19/11/2012
- The Wheel Truth 06/11/2012
- Be-Spoke Wire-Wheel Lace-Up 28/10/2012
- Smith’s Face-Job 22/10/2012
- Bluemels Brake Plate 21/10/2012
- Webb Hub and Brake-Plate? 20/10/2012
- More Sorting Out 08/09/2012
- 1928 Model K Velocette 07/09/2012
- My Book is Published!! 24/08/2012
- Velocette Mudguards and Stays 18/08/2012
- Rear Wheel Alignment 17/08/2012
- Now Trading Officially! 20/07/2012
- A Quick 50W Update 16/07/2012
- My Startup News 16/07/2012
- Let There Be Light! 05/07/2012
- More Parts from the Painters 19/05/2012
- A Tale of Two Tanks 19/05/2012
- Split Cases? 30/04/2012
- It’s a Hercus!! 29/04/2012
- Buffed Ally Covers etc. 25/04/2012
- Trial Assembly of -10 Gearbox 25/04/2012
- Good or Bad Carbs+De-Chrome 09/04/2012
- Painted Parts and Other Things 08/04/2012
- A Leica-ly Story! 24/03/2012
- 8″ Miller HID-Conversion 17/03/2012
- Webb Bottom Links 28/02/2012
- Frame and Fork Prep 19/02/2012
- Paint Preparation 19/02/2012
- No, I haven’t bought a Honda! 16/02/2012
- 1:9 Scale Velocette Model 11/02/2012
- Second KSS Tank 07/02/2012
- More Gearbox 06/02/2012
- Box #2 05/02/2012
- Gearbox Time! 04/02/2012
- Even More (expensive) Rubbish 31/01/2012
- Quick look at my KSS 29/01/2012
- Two Boxes of Gear(s) 28/01/2012
- Engine OUT! 27/01/2012
- Head J.O.B / Fuel-Tank 22/01/2012
- My KSS arrives! 21/01/2012
- More Bits than Pieces 21/01/2012
- KSS Cylinder-Head & Gears 21/01/2012
- Matching Numbers? 09/01/2012
- MAC / Bike-Work-Bench 04/01/2012
- Change of course 22/12/2011
- Inventory of Needed MAC Parts 17/12/2011
- The Bike Has Come, the Walrus Said 16/12/2011
- Transport Paid and Ready To Go! 08/12/2011
- More photos of the MAC 08/12/2011
- I Finally Found a Bike! 07/12/2011
- Looking for a Project Object 01/12/2011
- The Journey to Bielefed, Germany 26/11/2011
- Bike Pick Up and the Way Home 25/11/2011
- 1956 Matchless G80S 25/11/2011
- How it SHOULD have started 23/11/2011
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