MrWolf

I have some experience of being offered such things. My advice would be to at least clean it and get it running. You will be offered very little for it as a dead bike.

I have an acquaintance who keeps asking me about one that he has and if I would sell it for him? He bought it over a decade ago, rode it home and has left it outside in his backyard ever since, which is about 300 yards from the seafront. 

But he still thinks that he will get back his (alleged) purchase price of £2000. He is convinced that he will if I weave my "magic", (which translates as f#£* around with it for free until I declare it needs parts buying, at which point it will go back into storage)

Such is the price of being known locally as a reviver of old motorcycles.

Good to know that you have emptied and stored the tank indoors, that will have stopped it going rusty and dumping oxtail soup into everything.

Good job you aren't modelling modern image. You would need to model a group of angry vegans protesting against the livestock being carted off to their doom.

Run To Him - Bobby Vee

16 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

With one cell you could have become the US president. I assume it's brain cells we are referring to?

 

Mike.

I have to say that I think we have been very harsh on the outgoing president. 

He has in fact brought to the table everything that the voter has come to expect.

1. He has failed to deliver on pre election promises.

2. He has made any number of gaffes that made himself and his country a laughing stock.

3. He has left the country in an equal or worse mess than before he arrived.

4. He has thrown a toddler tantrum and blamed everyone but himself when the electorate turned their backs on him.

5. He is likely to leave his failed post with bulging pockets and be headed for even greater wealth.

I reckon that is a 100 per cent score,

He would go down a storm in Britain.

Look at the useless self serving politicians we have elected in the last six or seven decades.

PS. I didn't think much of the one DT beat to the polls either, sorry America, I reckon you were damned if you did, damned if you didn't.

All Alone - The Chanels

That's the one! Fit circlip to timing side of piston, hold electric clothes iron atop piston for 30 seconds to expand alloy, assemble to rod quickly whilst gudgeon pin a sliding fit, put in second circlip. Repeat until you run out of pistons.

12 minutes ago, jcredfer said:

I would think that the time you could influence what happens is limited, on the grounds that your own history depends on when you were here.  In turn that depends upon the rather random circumstances that mated two random cells and here you are, a two other cell combination and you wouldn't be,,,  well,,,  you.

 

 

 

That is a very valid point and something that I have often pondered on.

Then again, there's a couple of women who I never should have got involved with and a whole lot of other people that I regret not punching in the face....

3 minutes ago, skipepsi said:

Sometimes I had circlip pliers sometimes two philips screwdrivers...

That's very flash! A good number of British bikes had a simple wire circlip with blind ends, although there was a slot downward from the gudgeon pin bore that doubled as an oil feed drain for the pin and a handy way of fishing the clip out with a knife. It was considered seriously bad practice to reuse a circlip except in a dire emergency, so it didn't matter if the old one shot across the garage / backyard / kitchen. New ones will push into the groove with your thumbs so seldom escape. 

Of course, if you just happened to be having a bad day, you fumbled the circlip before you got to the circlip groove, followed by that depressing sound of circlip dropping into the sump.

Of course, as the first law of the cosmos states: Thou Shalt Not Win, this NEVER happens with a little 125 engine sitting on the bench.

No. 

You would swear at it and just tip the engine upside down until the offending item fell back out. Worst case, fish around with an old bicycle spoke.

This ONLY happens with a big engine that is still firmly nailed to another 300 pounds of motorcycle. 

IF it can happen on a Sunday evening when you are trying to get the bike back together to go to work on Monday morning, then it's triple word score and the game!

It can be awkward on multis. British parallel twins are by their nature, not much harder than a single.

I Stand Alone - Nick Cardell

5 minutes ago, skipepsi said:

I always stuffed all three crankcase openings with thick rags after the first circlip went awol...

Likewise, also two strips of straight hardwood between the crankcase mouth and the piston skirt to keep everything nice and square whilst lowering the barrels over the piston rings.

Stand By Me - Ben E. King

I like the home spun engine jig, something that I have always done, since engines develop suicidal tendencies when balanced on benches, or even on the floor!

Darlin! Don't Make Me Cry - Ernie  And The Halos

It looks really good with a coating of rust and the buffer beam conversion.  You've taken a battered old toy and given it a new lease of life as something seldom modelled.

Everybody Knew But Me  - The Crescents

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 I Want Oblivion -  Heavy Trash

Both models make perfect sense. Chris's model depicts a wagon before WW2 that although probably never cleaned, would have had regular visits to the wagon repair shops and a coat of paint every five years or so. Yours is a BR wagon 20 years later and probably less than a decade from the scrapyard. It would probably have had a coat of BR grey about 1949 and very little other than essential maintenance since, as it was becoming outdated.

 I Wanna See You -  Jackie Lee Cochran

That's Why I Cry - The Castaleers

All I Can Do Is Cry - Wayne Walker

Real Gone Daddy - Howie Strange

It's something that I have to tackle on my layout, the railway branch might be fictitious, but the banks of the river and surrounding areas need a lot of trees. I am actually looking forward to it, I don't expect it to be as tedious as it might appear.

Radioactive Kid - The Meteors