98cc Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 Cheers Al, really appreciate the comment! Update tonight.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 98cc Posted June 25, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 25, 2017 All of the frame mods have been sorted now, started buy cutting this piece of yuck out New tube in Thats better, cut off a few other unneeded mounts and tabs as well Then this happened, cleaned the bits up and got some Durepox primer on it. Evenings entertainment this week is to get it all sanded down ready for some top coat, Excited! 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rot808 Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Looking superb as always Louis Have you used the old villiers twin velobike lately? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted July 3, 2017 Author Share Posted July 3, 2017 Thanks Stephen! No the flyer hasn't run in a couple of years, it's currently been retired to the bedroom! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted July 3, 2017 Author Share Posted July 3, 2017 Got all the nuts and bolts polished up ready for the platers The last big thing that had to be sorted out was the front brake, my original plan a few years ago was to use this super sweet Benelli item With my plan now to try make a period style racer it was a bit out of place, i remember finding a picture once of a bantam racer from the 50s that had a twin front drum made out of bantam hubs, i think this would look pretty cool as well as hopefully adding a bit of braking performance. A friend sent me a couple of spare hubs he had.. Bit of hacksaw action Faced true Clamped and tacked, I turned up a tube to go through the center of the 2 half's to ensure good alignment before welding Should do the trick 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted July 3, 2017 Author Share Posted July 3, 2017 Pic for inspiration! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Love the front drum, fantastic innovation. How are bsa drums designed, are the leading or trailing style? Just thinking if run backwards if that changes things? Could it lock on? Sorry just thinking out loud...in reality I have no idea what I'm talking about. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDA780 Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Superb work Louis as always!! Hows the lil plane coming along? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 Kimjon, good question! I've given that very little thought so far haha but sould be able to make something work. They are single leading shoe, with a single trailing shoe. It might involve moving the pivot point of the shoes to mirror the other (original) side. Thanks Karl! Do you ever get out Ardmore airfield way? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOHC Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Do you want some new tank decals I had made? they are BSA Bantam Major but you could cut the major off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDA780 Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Not so often. I should come see you out there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 98cc Posted August 20, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2017 Top coat on, terrible phone pics but you can get the idea... Sat the engine in And all the bits have come back from the platers. Thanks to Phill at Electroless Coating Systems Next up is getting the front wheel sorted, Seat covered and the cream insert painted onto the tank. Then the fun part, bolting it all back together!! 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 98cc Posted September 6, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2017 Front forks and rear suspension all assembled up. I masked up the tank tonight so will get the tank insert painted tomorrow. Have dropped the seat off at the upholsters, hopefully that will be ready early next week. Also Tom Morris from wheel and spoke services has made me a set of stainless spokes for the front so will lace that up next week. Have just realized that the classic bike show is in a couple of weekends time so if i can get this looking some sort of finished i might take it along 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 3 days to the show.. Might be pushing it but i think i can get there. Original exhaust was pretty pitted so got some tube to make up a new one, The megaphone was off my dads Austin 7 racer he built in the 80's. It was so loud that he had to take it off and its been hanging around ever since. Hub parts painted And wheel laced up with the new stainless spokes, will try and true it up tomorrow night I also got some of these rubber ties from a bantam place in England, should be a bit nicer that zip ties to hold the cables to the frame 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 98cc Posted September 13, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 13, 2017 Pipe finished, only forgot to put the nut on once before welding on the megaphone haha Wheel trued up pretty easily The trimmer sent me a pic of the seat today. Really pleased with how it's turned out, will chuck a pick of it up tomorrow once I get it 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Open megaphone? How does that work with back pressure? Asking cos 2-strokes zorsts baffle me (ha)... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 You get the scavenge, but not the back pulse. Will pull all the burnt stuff out of cylinder (as well as pulling some fresh fuel mix into the exhaust). There is no return pulse to push this fresh mix back into the cylinder though, but still better than a straight pipe. This is what they did before proper spannies. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted September 14, 2017 Author Share Posted September 14, 2017 Yes just an open megaphone at the moment, have just styled it off that picture a few posts up. I would like make a proper tuned pipe for it in the future though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datlow Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 just saw this thread, topnotch work im pining for a old bsa chopper/brat type thing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted September 15, 2017 Author Share Posted September 15, 2017 As of tonight the bike is about 95% finished and loaded in my van. It has been a week of midnighters to get it to this stage but im extremely pleased to have it all together for the show this weekend. It was to dark in the shed tonight to take any pics but i did get one earlier of the carb trumpet, another high performance Austin 7 part from my dads special This is a really good event and heaps of cool stuff turns up, i will probably be hanging around there for most of the weekend. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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