Tag: Cleaning up

No, I haven’t bought a Honda!

… as was suggested by one of my ‘ardent’ followers of the blog!   No, things have not been very conducive to blogging in the last week, in fact, there has been so much turmoil around the house and around some of the bike parts (or rather their origin and what is going to happen…


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…


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,…


Head J.O.B / Fuel-Tank

You don’t have to be a ‘shrink’… to see what’s going on inside THIS head, that’s for sure! Apart from the butchery from yesterday’s tale, today we have a story about – you guessed it! – mods and rockers! Next off is the bevel gear housing, which comes off with three nuts, two directly behind…


I Finally Found a Bike!

Today I paid my money and pays the price…for a Velocette MAC, late 1940s, so with a rigid back end and telescopic front forks…a bit more comfortable than the springers on the wrists, but with the upright sitting-position, not an issue at all! This bike is an oily-rag, sort-of-runner, mostly complete. What’s missing is the…