What have you done with your bike/s today?

[berger]

i love this thread , never lost one i made sure the fit was good and tightened up good enough, but i did lose a headlamp bezel with lamp  fitting on betsy and it bounced down the road like barnes wallace bomb , i thought it had jumped a hedge and gone into a field , then after much searching i was rolling a fag on the seat 20 odd yards from where i heard it let go and looked down  and it was there on the grass bank with minimal damage . silly me had done some work in the headlamp on the wiring and hadn't tightened up the screw enough. it let go at about 50mph , i got lucky

[BagONails]

Bergs "I love this thread"

Me too.

Perhaps we should split it though and start a "guess what fell off my bike today and how I stopped it happening again..." thread

We also need a shed thread, Richard I'm in awe of your set up, I'd kill for another 5m2 never mind 105m2!
I hope you are powering all the lighting, heating and cooling etc with solar too?
The old masonary drill is a good dodge eh, I've done that before. Thanks for all the info, I must look up ACME Stainless now.

Musky, I was thinking along the same lines but using a s/s fishing trace, still a bit messy though really 

[orabanda]

Acme Stainless is a "lolly shop", they produce a vast array of quality parts and fasteners for Matchless, Ariel, Triumph.

Check out the brake rods, and accessories; very tidy rear brake rod light switch sleeve for 1/4" rod (adjustable), and Amal carby parts, etc.

I don't need air conditioning in the shed "complex". All walls and the roof are lined with insulation, and there are whirly birds in the roof. Open up the roller doors on the north, south and / or eastern sides and the breeze does the rest. Cold winters or summer in the high 40's, I can still enjoy "High Church" in the shed.
Plus, 22 solar panels on part of the roof.
Cheers,
Richard

[Worty]

Acme Stainless is a "lolly shop", they produce a vast array of quality parts and fasteners for Matchless, Ariel, Triumph.

Check out the brake rods, and accessories; very tidy rear brake rod light switch sleeve for 1/4" rod (adjustable), and Amal carby parts, etc.

I don't need air conditioning in the shed "complex". All walls and the roof are lined with insulation, and there are whirly birds in the roof. Open up the roller doors on the north, south and / or eastern sides and the breeze does the rest. Cold winters or summer in the high 40's, I can still enjoy "High Church" in the shed.
Plus, 22 solar panels on part of the roof.
Cheers,
Richard

Bah

[Greybeard]

I don't think the A's have this but I've seen splined shafts with an annular, (is that the right word?) groove that the clamping bolt passes through so even if the bolt loosens there is a good chance that it will stay on the shaft.

[Joolstacho]

Worty, what's the "bah"?
Is a response to AI? I'm getting paranoid nowadays, reading replies that somehow don't 'ring true'. But how do we tell?

[JulianS]

The RRT2 and some other boxes had a shaft with a circlip fitted outboard of the lever to keep it on if it come loose.

[Worty]

Worty, what's the "bah"?
Is a response to AI? I'm getting paranoid nowadays, reading replies that somehow don't 'ring true'. But how do we tell?

Mate, it's just an expression of petulant jealously over Orabanda's (Richard's) shed - I WANT one like that

[BagONails]

The RRT2 and some other boxes had a shaft with a circlip fitted outboard of the lever to keep it on if it come loose.

Was that a racing requirement I wonder?

Correction Julian - should read 'when it comes loose'

[BagONails]

Just to keep the thread going - its the only one we need really...

I've never been completely happy with the way my bike steers, I've played with the steering damper, backed off the head bearings a little then tightened them (that was definitely worse) then slackened them again.  Well today I bit the bullet and tore it all down at the front and this is what we found:

As the head set loosened and the lower triple clamp dropped down a little the expected balls didn't drop out, and I was amazed to find a caged roller in there. My first thought was 'well that's not a bit like the PO's usual penny pinching antics' but then I realised they were bone dry and rusty so there you go the euphoria was short lived only to be supplanted by the usual mirth when I found ball bearings in the top set also very dry and dirty. Looks like they were corroded when they were put in and just buffed up.  Then I found two huge craters on the inner race (brinelled) possibly from an accident. There are two big indentations and if you look closely there are radial cracks corresponding to these indents at 4 o'clock and 8 o'clock!

Could have been a bit nasty if a piece had broken out at some point.  Pretty sure the stanchions were replaced but he never checked the head bearings...

Luckily I had bought a new head set for the Spitfire a while back then subsequently decided to fit an SRM taper roller set up in that one so I had a spare brand new set of bearings ready to go in and not before time either!

[Worty]

Just to keep the thread going - its the only one we need really...

I've never been completely happy with the way my bike steers, I've played with the steering damper, backed off the head bearings a little then tightened them (that was definitely worse) then slackened them again.  Well today I bit the bullet and tore it all down at the front and this is what we found:

As the head set loosened and the lower triple clamp dropped down a little the expected balls didn't drop out, and I was amazed to find a caged roller in there. My first thought was 'well that's not a bit like the PO's usual penny pinching antics' but then I realised they were bone dry and rusty so there you go the euphoria was short lived only to be supplanted by the usual mirth when I found ball bearings in the top set also very dry and dirty. Looks like they were corroded when they were put in and just buffed up.  Then I found two huge craters on the inner race (brinelled) possibly from an accident. There are two big indentations and if you look closely there are radial cracks corresponding to these indents at 4 o'clock and 8 o'clock!

Could have been a bit nasty if a piece had broken out at some point.  Pretty sure the stanchions were replaced but he never checked the head bearings...

Luckily I had bought a new head set for the Spitfire a while back then subsequently decided to fit an SRM taper roller set up in that one so I had a spare brand new set of bearings ready to go in and not before time either!

Yowch

[chaterlea25]

Hi All,
Not today but yesterday I finally got my 1924 BSA 350OHV off the bench and did some test miles locally
It goes really well as it is a very light bike but the lack of brakes is something else
I have fitted a later BSA drum brake to the front, relined shoes with nos linings, it wouldn't hold the bike taking it down off the ramp so I will need to look at it again. The inverted lever may not have enough leverage?
It's also leaking gear oil from the sprocket area so it's going back up on the bench tomorrow to see where the oil is coming from

John

[chaterlea25]

Australian antics with one photo but it corrects when opened

John

[muskrat]

Australian antics with one photo but it corrects when opened

John

We need to see it down here too John 
Beautiful job mate.
Cheers

[berger]

bluddy lovely but don't forget they didn't need brakes on mud roads.