Restorations

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…

After much pondering regarding the seat arrangement I concluded that a wooden base rather than a metal base would be more practical. It’s a lot easier to fasten material to wood rather than metal with staples being the obvious choice….

Each week Scottie will tempt you with one of his handpicked used bike gems. He don’t just read the Bikes For Sale ads, he buys em! ‘What’s the story morning glory?’ Freshly purchased blind, and over that ‘well known’ auction…

With the bike now basically running the wiring needs completing – there’s actually not that much to do really – wire the headlamp hi low feed from the right switch, wire the headlamp and tail lamps, the horn and the…

About 3 years ago I bought two Triumph T300’s off a bloke in Sheffield. One got done up and sold and I bought another one. The third one was bought from a bloke that had it in his garage and…

Work continued on the wiring but before I went too far I wanted to make sure everything was hunky dorey. I had wired enough bits to see if the starter turned the engine ok and also to see if I…

Last episode I talked about the oil cooler and how ugly it was, well I have made the decision to get rid of it as the engine is now fully open and should cool adequately without it. I then had…

It has occurred to me that this is probably the biggest bike project I have taken on in terms of time taken. A lot of that has been additional effort caused by having such a pathetically low budget. I was…

I decided it was time to put the front end on – it’s much easier to move it around the workshop then and it may make it a bit easier doing my money making work. Before I could do that…