Looking good and great timing for Spring / early summer
Right up my street that is! Well done! Stainless primary adjuster!!! That's dead posh!
My two, the 750 i've just finished over last summer, and the 850 mk 3 is unrestored mostly bog stock with 7000 miles.
Re 'decent painter'.....Do you know about this gent from this site ??....
Paint jobs - Please take a look.
Right up my street that is! Well done! Stainless primary adjuster!!! That's dead posh!
My two, the 750 i've just finished over last summer, and the 850 mk 3 is unrestored mostly bog stock with 7000 miles.
Mikuni, works well and its a very easy starter, the bike has a few mods done as I bought it as a wrecker with a blown up engine, the original engine was built by Mick Hemmings and was tuned up just a touch too much hence the grenaded engine, so i put it all back to stock (ish) but added a new oil pump and mk 3 timing cover, pazon ignition and single carb, as so much was altered i ended up building my own wiring loom, dead easy, i bought a standard new loom and stripped that to provide the correct colours in the right places, bit of a faff but i'm sure future owners might appreciate the effort.
What are you going to do with the fiberglass fuel tank, has it survived the ethanol so far?
I've always been a bit of a Norton man, but Commando's are a bit too modern for me
I bought my '63 650SS as a jigsaw puzzle of a rolling wreck. Bought with the heart and not the head. Everything was totally knackered; - but you only fully discover that when you start the rebuild.
The bore was +60 and knackered, the crank was -40 and knackered, valves, camshaft, clutch, etc., etc, and Jeremy Corbyn has more spark than the mag had
Anyway, it now looks how I want it to. It has cost far more than its current value but its been great fun.
Porn, pure bike Porn!
I've always been a bit of a Norton man, but Commando's are a bit too modern for me
I bought my '63 650SS as a jigsaw puzzle of a rolling wreck. Bought with the heart and not the head. Everything was totally knackered; - but you only fully discover that when you start the rebuild.
The bore was +60 and knackered, the crank was -40 and knackered, valves, camshaft, clutch, etc., etc, and Jeremy Corbyn has more spark than the mag had
Anyway, it now looks how I want it to. It has cost far more than its current value but its been great fun.
That's lovely
In 1966 I bought a new BSA A65L but deliberated long and hard over a 650SS, but I was a BSA man at heart
The Lightning was a heap of trouble ... should've gone 'Norton'