Vintage motorbike

Ah yes Ducati, I rebuilt a 900ss for a friend. Once completed and the engine running in the frame, the kick starter spring broke after a weeks worth of use. Now, the Ducati 900 ss engine is built around that spring, so other than a nice looking bike, the bungee on the kick starter lever was norm!

It also had a rubbish oil filter system that caused a rapid demise of the crank bearings if not spotted early, and the bevel gear shimming, no-one in the UK supplied shims at the time or even knew what they were for, was done a treat if you made them yourself. Now Italian electrics, that's another story, but I did like the Desmo valve gear... So I stick to Nortons.

But I digress from turning an milling.

I did a right hand gear change conversion on my mates 900ss. Worked a treat.

Mark P.

I have absolutely minimal bike experience, and having only ridden an MZ and a moped once or twice when I rode my brother's CM250 around the block I started in second and then changed 'up' into first and couldn't understand why it wouldn't go very fast...

Neil

Google 'classic 50cc racing bikes....homebuild' On the old classic car forum you will find an excellent example of home workshop engineering.

Sorry folk but I am unable to provide a direct link.

Try this for a direct link:

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Thanks Mike.

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Sorry, Geoff ... I can't think of any reasonable explanation.

Which iOS version are you using? ... perhaps someone else has seen the same problem.

MichaelG.

iOS7.1.2

It's never worked as it should.

Geoff - I have an idiosyncratic iPad

> iOS7.1.2 It's never worked as it should.

That's what you get for buying cheap imported Chinese goods

Neil

I had a Ducati once, 50cc and 2 speed. What' all this off topic rubbish about smilies?s

Just to wind you you up Gordon

Geoff - Waiting for another pulley to get the TS motor bolted in place.

OK., so which Guzzi is it?

Regards Ian.

Then there are the home workshop engineers building 12" the foot working scale models of exotic old racing bikes that are simply not available any other way. Some beautiful pieces of work there, done in the home workshop for the most part. One of the notable examples is the 500cc Moto Guzzi V8 GP racer replica. At what, about 60cc per cylinder, with double overhead knockers and so on, the machining would be quite in the realm of model engineering.

I had the pleasure of visiting the Moto Guzzi museum in Mandello last month and seeing the 500cc V8 GP engine and bike in the flesh. What a gem of an engine! So small and compact. It is smaller than most 250cc. two stroke engines. I can only raise my hat to anyone who could build a scale version in their home workshop!

On a lighter note, as a Guzzi owner I was keen to find out how the Italians pronounced "Moto Guzzi" as you hear so many versions of it over here. They say Moto Gootzee, with the "t" being soft, ......and I suppose they should know!

My humble contribution to the universal store of knowledge for the day.

John

Cheap?!

Oh how I wish that was the case Neil.

That sentence is misleading, replace 'never' with 'not', as I meant it's not putting the smilies where I want them to be.

As an aside, GD has just received a £45 tablet from her Dad, but he complained about the weenie sounding speaker.

She used my iPhone yesterday and Dad compared the sound between the two devises, with me telling him that my phone cost many many multiples of what he paid. That shut him up

Geoff - Only an hour in Workshop today

Edited By OuBallie on 30/10/2014 17:28:29