Is motorcycling allowed?

[Spokey]

 

The old 750 was busting for a jaunt up Outeniqua Pass yesterday. I was happy to oblige!

[Fire Engine]

Considering the background in the bottom left of the image, he is enjoying it as well

 

That's motivation

[Grebel]

That's motivation

One or two encouragements never hurt [emoji106]

[Andymann]

Some goodies just arrived....... Considering they only left on Friday evening I'm bloody impressed.

 

And he wrapped everything in a copy of Motor Cycle News which is even more of a bonus!

 

 

Edited August 29, 2017 by Andymann

[Allrounder]

i was dry this morning up to about 1 km from my place of work. Started raining and Cape Townies forgot how to drive. Even my Jock strap is wet. 

 

But it still beats sitting in a car.     

[Andymann]

Got the Motor together this weekend and did a quick trial fit into the frame - all good, although the tank needs a bit more tweaking before it goes off to be painted.  

[Wannabe]

Coming along nicely now. 

 

That motor looks so basic, but it is beautiful in it's simplicity.

[Andymann]

It's actually quite a smart design - Velocette realised that the way to go was overhead valves, but their motor was already quite a long stroke, so to go the traditional route with OHC directly onto the Valves would make it even taller.  And also quite complicated.  So they solved that by putting the cam high up in the crankcase, and used really short pushrods to operate the Overhead valves.  The short pushrods allow fairly high revs (for 1950) but the long stoke still gives you nice torque.  Unfortunately the problem with Velocette, and most of the other British Bikes of the time, is that the Engineers were miles ahead of the game, and the primitive manufacturing methods of the time just couldn't keep up - resulting in very high costs.

[Andymann]

I'll post some nice close up pics of the valve timing side when we do that this weekend - combination of helical gears and pushrods.

[Fire Engine]

So after a long time of wondering how to tackle this little part of the puzzle we finally set to work and I am very happy with the outcome.

[Stretched@Birth]

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So after a long time of wondering how to tackle this little part of the puzzle we finally set to work and I am very happy with the outcome.

Looks very nice, what is your plan for the battery? Mine is under the hump, so my hump is quite big.

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

So trying to make my life a bit easier. Sitting on the floor while working a bike sucks!!

So I built a bike work stand out of some old work pallets. When I realized there was a lot of dead space underneath I made some drawers to store tools in. I realized early on that the pallets were too short so I mad an extension out front but will need to add one out back too as it is still a bit close for comfort. 

I still need to add a stopper out front too.

The ramp pulled a bit from the welding. Instead of spot welding it all and then final welding, I started from one end and the heat just caused issues. It doesn't bother me though.

This was always a budget build so function is way more important than form........

Edited September 5, 2017 by Steven Knoetze (sk27)

[Spokey]

 

Chilly and misty on my return down Montague Pass this afternoon. Was a great days outing into the Klein Karoo.

[Allrounder]

Where is this^^^^^ pass? I went to school in Montagu, but never saw this!

[Spokey]

Where is this^^^^^ pass? I went to school in Montagu, but never saw this!

It is the dirt pass between George and Herold. I believe it is the oldest pass in the country in normal daily use, completed in 1848.

 

To correct my spelling, it is Montagu, no e!

 

It is a really nice cycle or motor bike route iinto the Klein Karoo, linking to Perdepoort Pass just off the N9.

[Allrounder]

O okay. wrong Montagu. 

 

I went to the one with the hot springs. close to the Koo cannery.