Category: Hubs

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…


Be-Spoke Wire-Wheel Lace-Up

Wheels within wheels… Ever thought of spoking your own wheels up? Look at the cost of getting someone else to do it (not that difficult to find, most Bikeshops or Motocross-oriented dealers as well as some tyre-places can do it for you). Don’t forget, though, they are probably earning on the rim and spokes as…


Bluemels Brake Plate

It’s the real thing My long absence has been due to many changes! Real change only comes about through real change, as we know, and plenty has been a-changing! I won’t bore you with the details (well, not all of them… and not yet!), suffice to say that things (and me) are on the move…


Webb Hub and Brake-Plate?

Is it for Velocette at all?? This has turned out to be a bit of a conundrum: The hub and brake-plate that I received with the bike originally, purporting to be a Velocette front hub has a few ‘minor’ differences to any Velocette front hub that I have ever seen! Oh, there’s no doubt about…


More Sorting Out

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…


More Parts from the Painters

All sorts of ‘goodies’! The last two weeks have passed like lightning, as just one or two changes have occurred and there have been new plans afoot, a few parts have been returned from various ‘service providers’ and Christmas has come early this year, too! In Australia, we often see ‘Christmas in July’ parties, but…


Painted Parts and Other Things

No excuses, just an explanation is owing! The reporting on the project has slowed down, not because of lack of interest, but because of lack of cash! There have been plenty of other things going on, like getting things back from the powder-coaters! I didn’t really want to get parts powder-coated, for a number of…


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…


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…


Inventory of Needed MAC Parts

  SO, today I had a real walkaround and took a closer at the MAC to see what parts would be needed to turn this into a real stunner. On top of this will come the cost of blasting (where necessary, which I don’t really think that it will be) priming and painting/powder-coating and the…