MrWolf

I envisioned something more like a point and laugh mob....

55 minutes ago, Kickstart said:

More worrying is when you buy a bike and find it has suffered this problem. Fixed by someone welding the sprocket on!

 

All the best

 

Katy

Oddly enough, someone who we keep at an arm's length (Kawa VN, customised in the back yard with a £20 arc welder and an aquarium skull atop the front brake reservoir, clean leather waistcoat, meatloaf or other approved T shirt ) DID actually suggest welding the sprocket on and selling the bike to some unsuspecting new owner... 

Excellent, let's just see how many people we can get watching this junk. 

It Hurts To Wonder - The Notemakers

Great job, looking at those planks, you just know that you'd get splinters.

I suspect that when Mainline model trains went to the wall, the Japanese motorcycle industry snapped up all those nasty spur gears from tender drives at the dispersal sale and used them for starters or timing chain tensioners. My friend has just repaired a Honda adventure style bike that had stripped both it's gearbox sprocket splines and those of the gearbox output shaft. Apparently it's quite common. Something to do with using processed cheese instead of steel apparently.

I've always liked Honda's small bikes, had a few CG125s, a much maligned CB100N that didn't demolish it's rubbish cat food tin timing chain tensioner, in fact it seemed unburstable and an MTX80 that went back and forth between a friend and I for years. It must have been a good bike, it got stolen twice! The second time I got it back it was basically a frame wheels and engine. So we back dated it with whatever we had in the days before it was fashionable. D3 Bantam tank, alloy guards, early featherbed Dominator number plate and lamp and a headlamp that started life as a spotlamp on an RAF fire engine. Happy days with simple bikes, now of course, they're classics and those parts that got chucked away seem to be commanding wild prices.

4 minutes ago, 2mmMark said:

 Close!  Staines West.  A greasy, wet & rusty penetration into LSWR territory.

Sorry, I always mix the two up. I blame that bloody Ali G!

Surely the Staines branch was another case of the GWR feeling unjustifiably magnanimous towards yet another lame duck independent railway? 

Very nice XL250 Another rarity in any sort of condition. Those that didn't simply get stolen were ridden into the ground. I had a DT175MX many years ago and a mate had the NVT 175 with the same engine and square tube frame (I welded that more than once) Another friend had a spectacular off with the DT, bending the forks right back and smashing the engine to bits. Being 16 year olds, we heaved the remains over the edge of the quarry and went home.

Oil leaks are important, they let you know that there's still oil in the tank. They are not, as the pub know-all will tell you, the result of poor design and manufacture. They are simply a sign of how many mentally deficient baboons armed only with a hammer and a screwdriver that your bike has survived over the preceding decades.

Our canals used to be simpler in the UK, generally 4 inches of diesel oil and 4 feet of shi....

When I was a kid in Leicester, the canal used to change colour based on what the hosiery / shoe factories were doing. 

Of course, now all the industry is gone, the canal runs clear.

Which makes finding the drowned smackheads much easier.....

7 minutes ago, Chris116 said:

Since it does not like you watching why don't we all start watching his cr#p and see what happens?

Nothing like a pointless and pompous warning to make me do the complete opposite!

Screw it. I'm watching it! 

Anyone else?

I know that there is a character limit on eBay titles, but surely they could have squeezed in the word "badly" before the word "painted"?

Interesting, that's some inlet port! 

What are the nylon gears for?

German .792 gauge, very obscure now. 

That looks like the old station at Slough (I think!) Now offices.

We're a bit restricted on where we can go at present, being on the border of counties with different regulations. 

I rather like the modern Enfield's, a good old thumper that isn't trying to be anything else. I hear good reports about the new interceptor too. 

I have never had much to do with Enfields, until the J2 came along I had a Turbo Twin I rescued from the scrap man and sold on to a Villiers nut and helped a friend restore his 250 Continental. Found an old shilling bodged into one of the top hat bushes in the gearbox to take up the slack!

Probably a bit on the big side is that tank, but it was the only picture I had to hand. The panels were I believe 4 feet (1220mm) square.

"Model Railway Buildings - www.cwrailways.com" https://www.cwrailways.com/building-parts.html#

You can also get the familiar Braithwaite pattern tank panels at 50p each and build your own.

This style of panel dates back to at least 1900 and I have also seen them used for the sides of bridges.

I was thinking more of the hideous Bonneville America cruiser from about ten years ago. A friend had one in for insurance repair not long ago. Could we get mudguards for the thing? Easier for a prewar model. 

So much plastic, so much cheesiness, so gutless. I was glad that the Bettmann brothers weren't alive to see it. 

@rockershovel is absolutely right with his definition of a true slippery Sam and you are both right in that the one in the photo is indeed a replica / homage. 

I just took a picture of it because of all the modern tat masquerading as classic bikes, this one was unusual enough to be cool. Too much shiny plastic on modern retro for my liking.

Interesting stuff, I have seen plenty of dealers over the years advertising "Slippery Sam Replicas" which as you say bear little resemblance. Which is probably why, despite being something of a diehard BSA fan, I have little interest in Gold Stars. Every one I have been asked to "take a look at" (which we all know means "fix for free" despite (or how) the owner being able to afford a Gold Star.) has generally been a highly polished Mish mash of parts and if / when you can get it to run it's like a washing machine full of nails.

One I had recently, the owner couldn't get the front wheel spindle out (being aware that it's a left-hand thread would have helped I suppose) once I did get it apart I found that the previous restorer had ignored the fact that the right hand fork leg was bent back by 3/4 and simply used the heavy spindle thread to winch everything together. Finally I could sort out the front brake, the linings were like cardboard. 

I couldn't let myself put it back together in such a cra**y state. Goldie forks, must be expensive and hard to find right? 

No. Perkins forks, common to lowly B31s, plunger Flashes etc. About £80 for everything.

Still, who needs operational forks when you buy a bike as an investment / ornament / trailer queen? 

Bah humbug. 

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Get it out and use it.

Or it's going to rust.

And that ladies and gentlemen et al, applies to all things in life.

You Got Good Taste - The Cramps

13 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

TAKE TWO

 

9mm MDF on 3mm hardboard to lower the water level, right hand edge flush with the bridge, towpath on the left widened. Goes from 100mm wide (25ft) to 70mm wide (17ft-6”) 

 

Not glued in place yet, awaiting comments

Looks spot on to me. Make it happen!

The Girl Of My Best Friend - Elvis Presley

If I was feeling frivolous, I might buy it. I have a quick fix for it that involves placing it carefully on a fence post at the end of the garden.....

The Girl Can't Dance - Bunker Hill

4 hours ago, rockershovel said:

 

where is the back-to-front caliper for the second front disc? 

Not a clue, not every replica is 100% nor intended to be. I don't know much about post 1960 Triumphs. Dad used to rib his Triumph owning friends by calling them girl's bikes. Maybe he was right. There's a 1951 Speed Twin in our garage and a girl rides that!