Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / Classic (UK Group) / March 2006

No, not the toys ones from Aldi etc.
Just received a flyer from Mitutoyo, offering a Digimatic
caliper 0-150mm x 0.01mm for £47.50 with a free fridge
magnet of one of the pictures of totty from their

Did someone say they had a spare one kicking around, and if so could
they email me with a price please.
Ta

So how many people here have an interest in both SOBs and SOCs?
The reason being my wife has a Ducati and a rapidly expanding collection of
Ansonias that I am expected to maintain. Bikes I can cope with but the
ticky things I know feck all about.

After some more fiddling I actually managed to start the FrankenXL250. As
bad as the donor engine looks it seems to be running OK, no untoward noises
or somesuch.
However it looks like the rev counter isn't working and by the time I tried

Maybe this question is not appropiate here and I'm not a mechanic. - but I
was reading about the 500cc grand prix in the mid 70's, basically how the MV
Agusta could no longer compete with Japanese 2-stroke bikes. MV set about
developing a four cylinder engine to increase power ...

Another dodgy Ebay frame advertised "with no V5" as "it was for a special".
I asked about the frame number so I could check it out and possibly apply
for a V5 from Swansea on the existing frame number, but the guy comes back
with:

5-3/4 inch Cibie in a cheapo Bates style shell. 1st run down some back
roads this evening. "Oh Yes"  most illuminating. I shall buy the second
one now. Cheap solution, about £50 all in per side. Just need to run
some heavy duty wire up and splice in a relay.

All cheques are now in, thank you very much.
Ukrm does Mallory Park is a go-go.

http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pics0458nq.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pics0445ub.jpg
Want!!

Posters such as these seem to be able to grasp how to sign cheques to
pay those enlisted to work on their various bikes, but dont really seem
to have much of clue if they have to get their own hands dirty (TOG
suggests cam chain must be split to remove cam from XS650, and Wegg

Urrgghhhh ! Looks like a poor mans MZ !
http://www.ducati.at/ducati/news/images/GT1000-amb_gross.jpg

Have decided that a top quality cordless drill/driver is next on the
list. Getting the Dremel 300C kit convinced me there were a couple of
things missing in the kit. I can't accommodate a compressor for the real
deal at this time.

Faffing about with the CD250 at the weekend... trying to make it
slightly less shite, but it'll always be a SOB. Anyway, I wanted to
replace the chain. No problem. Spun the chain and couldn't find a
spring link. Blimey, Honda only went and stuck an endless O-ring chain

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8048140880&ssPageName=ADME:
B:SS:UK:1
Yeah, like f.ck.
But the misprint in the description says it all.

I really really wanted one of these when I was 14 and I saw it in Super
Bike (?) magazine.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4621627992
Am I alone in this - quite unlike any other Harley's of the time it