Saturday 30 April 2011
YORK FESTIVAL OF VINTAGE
Tons of smart vintage clothes and accessories, lots of smart vintage people, a few smart vintage vehicles and a smart and forceful vintage lady who made me dance (this is not her, or me)
Friday 29 April 2011
SKY SPORTS SPEEDWAY
Thursday 28 April 2011
Wednesday 27 April 2011
OLD SKOOL PERFORMANCE
Always get plenty of people wanting to tell me Streetfighters are just crashed Bandits with Renthals. If you appreciate custom built air cooled Jap 4s oldskoolperformance is the place to be.
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Monday 25 April 2011
LEEDS WORLD
Sunday 24 April 2011
SPRING LAMBOS
John's Easter big breakfast meet this morning, over 500 cars from all over the North ranging from tasteless to very tasty...
Specialist Cars, Malton.
Specialist Cars, Malton.
Saturday 23 April 2011
FAB GEAR
Al and i set off at 7.00 this morning to an Autojumble, always treat her on her days off, but it turned out to be next week so we ended up at a car boot sale instead and bought all this groovy stuff. The fab little Beatles books were published in 1963 and show that at that time the four mop heads were real down to earth lads doing ironing and boiling kettles and everything. If you are a collector of Beatleabilia, vintage leathers or cool 40s/50s ladies specs you had better be looking on ebay on Monday. Great.
Friday 22 April 2011
Thursday 21 April 2011
Wednesday 20 April 2011
NUDGE NUDGE
Tuesday 19 April 2011
EASTER AT THE SEASIDE
ON THE ROAD
Did about 5 miles yesterday; it rides straight as an arrow, easy to handle once you are doing over 10mph and the brakes even slow it down a little. Just a right laugh and i can see what is behind in a sort of fish eye way in the reflection of the headlight.
But... as suspected the carb is never going to work properly going "uphill" so ive ordered a sidedraft manifold from Clay Cross in the US and also a new Mikuni to go with it. I have already spent too much of my life trying to coax old Amals back to life.
One other problem, the engine is wet sumping, after the run it was blowing oil from the breather pipes and investigation shows there to be 280ml of oil in the sump (maximum should be 100). This morning i have checked the scavenge pipe, stripped the oil pump, put another new crank end seal in the timimg case and stripped and checked the pressure release valve. They were all perfect. I have read in a thread on JJ of someone having similar trouble with an oil filter fitted in the return oil line (as i have), anyone had this happen to them ? At the moment there is no carb on the bike in readiness for the new set up but when it arrives i can try bypassing the filter...and hope.
Monday 18 April 2011
Sunday 17 April 2011
ON THE OUTSKIRTS..
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