Sunday, 8 May 2011

Keighley Gate Trial 08 05 11

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Back out on the bike after my ‘holiday in the Highlands’ and up onto the edge of Ilkley Moor within sight of the radio masts and the ’Keighl...
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Cecil Blount DeMille

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With no work req. on the bike since the last trial I pushed the boat out, stripped, and cleaned the carb… Again, all clean this time but the...
Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Mothering Sunday.

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First weekend in April was Mothering Sunday AND round four of the Yorkshire Classic Championship . The club has this year really taken to he...
Monday, 4 April 2011

Clean and lube

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One of the delights of a dry trial in Lincolnshire was that the bike was ‘relatively’ clean post trial. I let what crud there was dry off be...
Tuesday, 29 March 2011

The Sun shines .

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Hurrah!! With the bike Mot’d and insured (£64 for the year), I walked to the village Post Office and took up the offer of a FREE road tax ...
Monday, 21 March 2011

Keeping up with the Jones's..

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well the bike rode better than ever for the first couple of laps today it pulled terrifically and and rode better than i have ever known, to...
Thursday, 17 March 2011

Something for the Weekend

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Having done the normal post trial routine at the weekend ( hose down and cover everything in wd40) Today I’ve been preparing the bike for...
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Sunday, 13 March 2011

Details Details..

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Thia weekend was Yorkshire Classics premier  off road trial' The Captains at Castle Carr high above Halifax, so with the bike up and r...
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Friday, 11 March 2011

Boxing clever

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I don’t understand what all the fuss/ anxiety was about… A good read of the workshop manual and with the bike laying on its side the gearbox...
Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Spanners out again..

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Having bolted the clutch etc back together (when you have done it half a dozen times it seems easy) it felt like a collective pat on the bac...
Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Back Together in a Jiffy!

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Two weeks down the line since the last post and after an inital flurry getting the alloy welding done on the gearbox and sourcing all the pa...
Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Thats gotta hurt!

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Practice makes perfect so up to the quarry on Saturday to get used to the bike over the bigger rocks, I also took the chance to fine tune th...
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Thursday, 10 February 2011

Chain reaction

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One of the issues carried over from the original bike was ''what exactly is the chain size'' and the state of the rear sproc...
Friday, 4 February 2011

night of the big hammer..

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Having  a vaulted ceiling space in the garage has been great for storage it does though have two downsides, firstly when the heating is on i...
Wednesday, 2 February 2011

first time out...

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Having had extensive post build testing (started bike and pushed it in the back of van) I lugged the bike up to Yorkshire Classic  1st Champ...
Friday, 21 January 2011

Brake!

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Something I really wanted to get right was the position of the rear brake lever so that it was spot on. No tipping the foot forward or havin...

Progress!

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Well with the snow finally melting and more importantly the temperature rising above zero (briefly) and finally the introduction of heating ...
Monday, 4 October 2010

The man that can..

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One of the essentials of pre 65 trialling is knowing someone who knows whats what what works and what doesn't. I 'm fortunate to hav...
Saturday, 2 October 2010

Shopping list..

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Well firstly some photos from my design board of what it is I'm building, most of the bikes I've photographed myself at Yorkshire Cl...

How much is scrap aluminium worth?

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The postman and UPS have been busy and have dropped off a load more bits and bobs for the bike including spherical bearings for the shock lo...
Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Airfix kit with no instructions and with some pieces missing!

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The plan was to dry assemble everything, so that i knew what went where, what fitted what needed doing to what etc before any paint or powde...