What have you done with your bike/s today?

[Worty]

Bad luck Madsens, hope you fix as quickly as the Beezer.  All the best.

[RDfella]

Worthluck - it's an own build. Sorry to hear of your disease-related problems.
Madsens - that's a real bummer. Hope all is well again very soon.

[BigJim]

Hey RD is the V twin starting and running well enough to get it out on the Road. Hope so, it's been quite a journey.
 
Hope the recovery goes well Madsons.

[Joolstacho]

Damn! That's lousy luck mate. Hang in there.

[Peter in Aus]

That's is bad luck Madsens hope you get well soon, could have been worse, you could have been on the Beesa.

Today I have to announce that I have sold my A7 & A10 and brought a Honda CB500X 2013 but all is not lost I still have my A7 58 SA project on the go, it is at the rolling frame stage, see pic. at present I'm doing the gearbox having lots of fun and waiting for parts from England.
Peter

[Worty]

Cheers RD.  On the plus side, I'm doing weights and have lost about half a stone - full of muscle Cut down on the beer and junk food big time (don't tell Berger).  Don't like whinging on about illnesses, just like to get on with it, but it has genuinely been a rough ride - and I don't do illness well.

Still, c'est la vie.  First priority is to make sure the wife and I are good, then I can refocus on bikes again. 

Love the bike - always dreamed of finding something like a G13 or G14 and riding it original or putting the/a motor in a custom frame with a bit of tuning.  Not a Harley fan at all, but I love the old Vs.

[Greybeard]

A young kid on  Scooter took a hard left turn without signal or looking back,(and with wifi earphones under his helmet) just as I was about to overtake him (right hand drive) - this did not go well so we booth ended up in hospital, and the Revere is a write off... And my left arm broken in 2 places... but in 4 weeks the cast will come of, and it is BSA time again...

Yikes! When you say scooter, do you mean an electric one? I'm glad it wasn't worse; you might have been riding the Beezer! 

[Butch (cb)]

Well it's all quite wet around here this weekend, though not as wet as some places I've seen on the news. I've even felt the occasional drip come through the asbestos roof on the garage ...

Where I've been fabricating a new arrangement for mounting the flapper bracket and rack on the back of Blue my T3. All about done now and ready for the powder coaters.

Looks like the best of the weather is definitely behind us here in the UK now, what with all this wet and the nights drawing in horribly. Looking back over the year I can't actually remember taking the BSA out at all, not once. Must try harder.

[RDfella]

Big Jim - project not ready for road, but almost.... Just had hassle with one carb flooding (again) and now playing electrics. Wasn't room for standard light switch so blanked that off and fitted a modern handlebar one - which doesn't like the current of 6v and causes the tail light to feed back to head beam. So it's two relays and diodes required. Hope to fit them next week, together with the chainguard. Then hopefully it's almost there..... Will have to take a pic of it running.
Note the vee I'm servicing at present was an earlier project that I did in the early 80's.

[Greybeard]

Note the vee I'm servicing at present was an earlier project that I did in the early 80's.

I appreciate that you've put my forum nickname on the timing chest covers. Cheers!

[berger]

I will have to start going back and staying in the pub . why do I buy work and head ache  the yonda back brake master cylinder is kaput and they are now unobtainium . I have spent hours searching and it is a no no. brand new no longer available and no second hand ones for my model . BUT there is a lot of near enough ones so I am just waiting on replies for hole centres . if this works out I will just have to get a new back hose made up with a different outlet banjo connector. trying to find out the exact year of this bike has been interesting and I have narrowed it down to a cb750f dohc of 1980/81 . registered in England in 1982 all the writing on the frame sides is in Japanese and the frame numbers I have researched don't start until RCO42----- and mine is RCO41----- did the American market yondas have the writing for the chain tension etc in English or japenese, any body know? because the side panels are fake made up things with f2 on them it can't be an 82 model because they had air assisted front forks and twin piston calipers. another strange thing that has baffled me is the front brake master cylinder piston which is 5/8ths and is clearly  marked on the housing and not metric ---- it is the correct one . mystery's do my head in!!

[ironhead]

  I see you have found a nice big rabbit hole to go down

[berger]

yes ironhead and I just cleaned up the outside of the rear master cylinder and that one is 14mm, what were the japanese thinking of? 5/8ths front and 14mm rear also had a couple of reply's from breakers and suppliers and it is looking like I will have to do some work and fit a rear one that is alike to the original meaning messing with holes and positioning of it

[chaterlea25]

Hi Berger,
Imperial sizes on  brake cylinders originates I believe from Lockheed patents
 

John

[berger]

cheers john, one mystery solved, I just thought it odd when I saw it and the back one is 14mm, front one is 15.8--- 5/8ths