hallo world, on the road again and a few miles of smiles

The bitch charging @ 14.5 amps

 A little addition for my co pilot for those short trips

 made a new bracket and utilised an old exhaust bracket

 Two up to Friston, a little event on the village green 

My co- pilot didn't like the way her feet tried to slide off the pegs so a little mod required.

Christine starts on one or two kicks.

So all this time , apart from the ultima electronic iggy piece of shit, the alternator was not giving a full charge and then no charge after it came loose.

I had two weeks notice before the chopper bash of imminent probs, but as she would not start without a new condenser, thought I had sorted it.

Going to trawl through my blog list and delete some hipster trash - as I seem to miss the ones that matter - people like TC that spend a day making a bracket!

chopper bash repairs...

the screws holding the alternator came loose damaging the outer threads

 put a new rear inner tube in

 and when I got the tyre back noticed what was left of the nail still in the tyre

 the gearbox sprocket seal was leaking too - and the spacer was worn , metal shavings in the box?

 nice logo

 had to tap a deeper thread for the alternator screws

used longer bolts to hold the cycle electrics alternator 

28 year old alternator

fitted a  'big fix' gear box nut has a seal - we'll see…

Off to the Chopper Bash in Holland and a very long weekend...

 In which we meet Luke

 and James who had run out of fuel

  then later found couple of big rocks for the Bitch to sit on when the slow puncture finally decided to flat and rip the valve off coming onto dual carriageway R4

 and Nick bless him pulled the tyre off and put in the old inner tube 

I had packed at the last minute

 big raised bridge at Zeizate

 little did I know that she would not start again

 so the others carried on , I got a recovery truck jump start about 9pm

and then she cutout @ 9.30pm 

 and pushed her a couple of miles into the Bash about 10 pm that night

a lovely event, great people

 good times

club house bar

 

a lot of top quality great bikes

 we diagnosed the alternator was fucked, so battery on charge all night

 Nick and Spike load up

a bit stressy but we made it home, 500 mile round trip

Had a lot of help and cannot thank everyone enough.

A big thanks to Angelo and the Chopper Bash Crew

of love, internal goings on and strange happenings

in love again...

a trip to SoLow Chops and it seems it can happen to other people, 

the 'S&S' engine in Clives bike turned out to have big bore (for a 1340) barrels on a 1200 size crank about 5:1 compression!  

 Jays Ironhead was smoking so he found cracked front rings and wrong piston in the rear

 getting the miles in

 something has been eating my bars

pulled her out of the garage for mondays trip out and at first 

thought this was road rash but it looks like I've got 

some garage monster addicted to powdercoat

The Bitch is back...

 earlier last week

a 140 mile trip to Beakys and meet Mr Tibbs and son Drew

and the likely lads inc leightons mate and Leighton, Nick, Tom and Spike

the mag come back from testing @Paul Bruschan Auto Elec

it seems that there is no pin in the drive gear

and probably why it was sold on originally, 

it had sheared and the gear jammed on

Saturday 4pm 12th April, 

2 litres of oil, one litre of six month old petrol and… 

she fires first kick!

oh and new lights too.

More stuff from a planet far far away...

 Finally a full bottle and Free!

148Bar and thats after welding a tab... 

Removed last years muffler brackets...

New Tab welded on Exhaust pipe...

thats better ... 

A little reminder to self ...

The joys of rural life, Ren did a swap for her Chutney... 

last time I replaced these little circlips I could actually see them! 

oooooohh 

Olives - How! End of  March?...

Outside the back door in Orford the good life...

A little tip my mate Nick gave me , if you are rattle canning, 
heat up the can in hot water, it works too... 

After realising I do not have three hands, had to take apart the handlebars with internal wiring through the top tree to the twin headlights

fixed to a bracket that clamps the lower tree to the fork legs
a bit of a juggling act involving words like fuck fuck fuck