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…


Slight Change Of Plans!

Early MSS ‘Map of Africa” Well, while the blog as such hasn’t been moving forward in the sense of regular postings, there indeed has been a lot going on in all sorts of ways in the background. There have been a couple of new ‘events’ and some changes in emphasis, as well as a very…


Four-stroke cycle? Nearly!

FUN AND GAMES in Illustrator…720 pictures for the digital version of my book. Took ages to draw!! Still have to do the traditional cold-in, compress, bang and warm-out stuff… Not quite worked out how I want to do that, yet… Please just click on the picture to see the Flash-animation…right-click to stop at any time,…


Miller Regulator Cover and More!

Old lid with new internals (no bracket yet!) How time flies!! I am still stuck up here at my parent’s place, camping on an air-mattress that decided to deflate twice last night (No, not the subject of another blog, sorry!) and am sitting right now at what has, for the last eight months, been my…


Miller ‘Star’ Testimonials

My humble thanks! To start on a really positive note, I have had some fantastic feedback about the Star, my proudly first ‘product’! I humbly accept their praise and encouragement, as a good deal of work (and money) gets sunk into such projects. This sort of praise makes it all worthwhile, when you know that…


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…


First Production Looming

Well, it should have sort of sifted through by now… … I’m not only restoring a Velocette blah,blah, blah, but I’m also setting myself up as a sort of modern-day Don Qixote, Jousting with windmills etc. in my efforts to redress the balance and make parts that FIT, DO THE JOB they were intended for…


‘Racing’ Oil Tank Anyone??

Hah! Really looks the racing-part! This came with my KSS parts from NSW and the now unresponsive Bob. Ishall actually be selling this, as I have no use for it at all. My bike will be anything but a racer and will probably end up being ‘de-tuned’ mildly, to allow some long-distance cool running with…


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…