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Red ……… The perfect choice – updates?

That’s a cool bike Kaye – credit to you.

Having gone through the same grief after spraying with Isolaor, you have my sympathy ! In the end I resorted to having the tank media blasted and started again from scratch. I went with cellulose as it’s what I’m familiar with.

No problems this time round !

Love the colour BTW.

I had a similar situation with my tank and seat cowl. Decided to spray a coat of Barcoat isolator before getting down to actual finishing with primer and top coat. Because I’m basically a sad old fart – I stick to what I know – Cellulose.

Anyway the primer reacted with the Barcoat !!! Oooops – that’s not supposed to happen.

I was that gutted…[Read more]

KK …………. pm ‘ing issues again.

Tried to call you on your landline the past couple of days.

Your PM message with your mobile disappeared after I opened it before I could write the number down !

Can you let me have it again please so I can arrange payment for carriage

Ta

TJ

KK – problems sending PM again.

Re: cylinder head loan. Do you want me to pay a deposit etc. against safe return ?

I spoke to my fabricator pal at the weekend and he assures me there’s no way the head could be damaged in this process.

Here’s the flanges for the 40DCOE conversion.

I appreciate your offer, many thanx.

Absolutely NO damage to the head. It just has to act as jig to measure for the tubes and spacing.

Why not use my own ? Well the engine is now assembled and the guy has to have the head at his workplace and can’t take a complete engine in ! The other reason is that he is often called away to mainland Europe […[Read more]

Update.

I have sold my TR1 Cafe Racer project and quite a few odds ‘n sods.

I decided it’s best to sell one project at a time, as it took me a whole day to find the bits for the TR1 before the buyer came to collect!

So, the plan is to do just that – gather all the Flat Tracker parts up together then both buyer and seller knows what’s there…[Read more]

KK,

yes it’s been a pleasure to be around here, and YES, I am seriously gutted that I cannot complete the project.

However, I will still be on the forum bugging you all as I don’t need kidneys to use a keyboard !!!

Phil,

thanx for the kind words.

The short answer is – it could be !!!

I have to wait for the 6 month assessment [ June ] to see if the decline of kidney function has been halted ….. I’ll start worrying [ or not ] then !

Price please ????

KK,

my pal is currently out in the US and had picked up a NOS rectifier for $40 and is bringing it back with him at the end of Sept.

Please earmark one [ rec ] for me – as long as I don’t have to remortage !!

My stanchions are borderline, but if you have good ones, let me know

TA

KK,

I’m in need of the following to complete the missing parts for my ’76 Flat Tracker …..

Rectifier

Good pair of fork stanchions

………….not too long now !!

Does that mean that a straight thro’ pipe would be road legal ???

That’s great news as I did not want to fit any silencers to the twin high level pipes I intend to fit to my Flat Tracker. I was contemplating some sort of mute insert – a la Volkswagen Beach Buggy style, but would rather not !!

KK,

sorry for the delay in responding – been one of those months !

You know I have the weird wire wheel – will it fit ?

I only really need stanchions as the legs have been sent off for powder coating and I have new seals and springs.

Thanx as always

TJ

And the price for the wire spoked alloy rims is ??????????????????

Thanx to all for your feedback and especially to KK for the generous offer ……………………..however, the spindle is now out !!!!!!!!!

Wheels off to be blasted / powder coated later this week.

HI KK,

can’t see how to PM you.

I could do with price for the wheel and disc. And also for the complete set up including forks.

My pal is having one more go at removing the spindle from my wheel. He’s taking it in to his mate’s workshop at the weekend.