Category: Wheels

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…


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…


Rear Wheel Alignment

Just practice, with a solid spindle! I can’t believe that its been a month since I last wrote something here! How time flies and the setting up of a business does require a little research, travel, meetings, conversations and preparation! Being in the main a manufacturing entity, there are all sorts of things to work…


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…