Category: Safety

Rigid Velocette Top Yokes for WEBB forks

Somebody please help. I am trying to get the one or other thing produced for rigid Velocette’s and would prefer, if possible, to be able to initiate or keep (once established) the production process here in the UK, close to the market centre and close to central distribution-channels. I am not able to manufacture anything…


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…


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!…


Real Glass Miller Rear Lens?

It finally looks as if I actually might have (after 5 months of research) found someone capable and willing to make borosilicate glass mouldings for me for the Miller 36E rear light in less than quantities upwards of 10,000 a Month! The main question is, who will buy them? All the ‘originality’ fetishists will steer…


First Stampings of the ‘Star’

Yep, the day has arrived, when I can see the results of my first ‘remote’ job being completed. As an industrial pattern-maker, my main line is making ‘wooden’ patterns for castings (not always really wooden and these days I’m working hard on some CAD to get stuff CNC’d). Due to a change in family circumstances,…


New 8″ Headlamp Brackets

Yes, that’s right! Just a quicky! Well, today was a good day… I picked up the initial batch of Headlamp-Brackets (or stays as some will still insist on calling them!) for the WEBB forks and Miller 8″ headlamp, so good for Velocette, Norton, Triumph and other manufacturers also on their pre-war Girders. NOT, I might…


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…


Miller Rear Light Update

A Much Better Rear Light – From Taiwan Not that anyone would (not) notice the difference in the quality of these two parts, without me saying anything about them, but here goes anyway!! Unless you see them side-by-side, how would you know? The one on the right, needless to say, is the one of Indian…


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…


The Wheel Truth

Untruth #1: Only a magician can true wheels! What a load of rubbish! Could do with a bit of time: Yes, could have something to do with WANTING to true them (yourself): Yes. Untruth #2 PATIENCE of Job* required, No, I don’t need it and nor do you. Patience, my friend, is something you only…