Restorations

Well the back wheel arrived and I’m glad to say it was every bit as good as the front one so I am very happy with that. The bike is going together quite well although I still keep hitting the…

Exactly 1 month ago I was seriously considering buying a 2021 BMW S1000R (in M Sport colours) with carbon wheels fitted from factory, costing close to £20k (including add-ons!) What was I thinking, I just saved myself a shed load…

Having spent a couple of hours cleaning up the wheel hubs I came in for a cup of Nescafe’s finest and had a quick look on ebay to see if anything new had been listed. Sure enough a minty looking…

I hate doing bodywork. I am not very good at it, it takes far too much time and it’s just not nice. I knew the tank was going to be a challenge as it had a massive dent in it…

The box of brake components I blagged on ebay came the other day so I set about checking out exactly what I had, I was rather chuffed. There were enough parts to build 3 good front calipers and 2 master…

I took the knackered old battery out of the bike t’other day and discovered why I had such a big fat reliable spark. Behind the battery was a Newtronic Systems electronic ignition controller – hence no points to corrode and…

Round these parts they have a saying – he needs to give his head a wobble. It’s used at times when somebody has either done something really daft or hasn’t done something that they really should have done. I think,…

OK so the last episode was supposed to have been the last one but some bits worthy of putting finger to keyboard cropped up and I realised I hadn’t talked about the future of the bike and so on. The…

Now I am very much on the home run, the only two jobs left to do are the seat and exhaust. It has so far taken almost exactly 4 months of working on and off to get this far. The…

While I was looking at how the seat was fitting I tried to imagine it covered in black. As I did that I decided there was simply too much black at the back and that the rear mudguard should be…