Up to now, I've got away with using a Beta (orange, as in tool company) filter strap wrench to hold flywheels in place but in attempting to remove my flywheel from my Transalp on the weekend (not been off for 22 years), I broke it. I eventually achieved the desired result of removing the flywheel bolt with the use of a 1p coin.
However, I've seen proper, heavy duty, metal band flywheel strap wrenches (i remember my old REV3 flywheel being jammed on with one), however can't find them for sale in the UK ? Anyone ?
I understand that a vast capability gap now exists between the best and worst riders which calls for 2 routes and broadly categorisation between bikes of certain era's but the correct grouping keeps that reasonably fair or at least levels the playing field to a degree. I am sure that in the 50's and 60's there were not complaints about modifications made to bikes, more envy or interest in what the factory riders were doing to their bikes that the average club man would try to emulate.
There are also a number of very capable riders that are succumbing to age. As the sections get harder to take marks from younger riders on trick bikes, it forces these riders out.
Is this really the intention ?
Envy is a frequently used word, and is often true, but when used as a defence for heavily modified bikes, its not always appropriate. I find these bikes of great interest, but wonder how much satisfaction can be gained in beating a "standard" bike.
we must stop bitching about what is right and wrong about each class and just get an entry so that you can just turn up and RIDE. Life is to short !!!!
Think it was one of the first stickies, couldnt let it fall into the hands of anyone.
Who would have wanted a tyre with half the tread blocks missing? I recall the first stickies did not like the road going and shed tread. I must remember to ask you about Joanna's shoes at Glentress.
Would probably still have been better than a Dunlop Trials Champion !
Sorry Andy, I take full responsibility for lowering the tone of the thread, prob last few posts I have done leaving the door open for the likes of Ham and Copey lol, (good though)
Heres how we mean to go on lads, (for the near future anyway)
John was sitting outside his local pub one day, enjoying a quiet pint and generally feeling good about himself, when a nun suddenly appears at his table and starts decrying the evils of drink.
"You should be ashamed of yourself young man! Drinking is a Sin! Alcohol is the blood of the devil!"
Now John gets pretty annoyed about this, and goes on the offensive.
"How do you know this, Sister?"
"My Mother Superior told me so."
"But have you ever had a drink yourself? How can you be sure that what you are saying is right?"
"Don't be ridiculous--of course I have never taken alcohol myself"
"Then let me buy you a drink - if you still believe afterwards that it is evil I will give up drink for life"
"How could I, a Nun, sit outside this public house drinking?!"
"I'll get the barman to put it in a teacup for you, then no one will ever know."
The Nun reluctantly agrees, so John goes inside to the bar.
"Another pint for me, and a triple vodka on the rocks", then he lowers his voice and says to the barman "and could you put the vodka in a teacup?"
"Oh no! It's not that Nun again is it?"
He lead me astray :-
Male Date-Drug
Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties & local pubs to be
alert and stay cautious when offered a drink by any woman.
Many females use a date-drug on the market called 'Beer ' .
The drug is found in liquid form and is available anywhere. It comes in
bottles, cans, or from taps and in large kegs.
Beer is used by female sexual predators at parties and bars to persuade
their male victims to go home and sleep with them.
A woman needs only to get a guy to consume a few units of Beer and then
simply ask him home for no-strings-attached sex.
Men are rendered helpless against this approach. After several Beers , men
will often succumb to the desires to sleep with horrific looking women to
whom they would never normally be attracted.
After drinking Beer , men often awaken with only hazy memories of exactly
what happened to them the night before, often with just a vague feeling that
'something bad' occurred.
At other times these unfortunate men are swindled out of their life's
savings, in a familiar scam known as 'a relationship' . In extreme cases,
the female may even be shrewd enough to entrap the unsuspecting male into a
longer-term form of servitude and punishment referred to as 'marriage'.
Men are much more susceptible to this scam after Beer is administered and
sex is offered by the predatory females.
Please forward this warning to every male you know.
If you fall victim to this 'Beer ' scam and the women administering it,
there are male support groups where you can discuss the details of your
shocking encounter with similarly victimized men.
For the support group nearest you, just look up 'Golf Courses' in the phone
B40RT, yes the Norton and I have toured the Scottish Highlands together for the last 20 years or so, did I talk to you at Bilsdale this year, when I was not on the Norton.
I commented on the ease with which you started the Norton at one of the pre65's, and you gave me a very informed explanation regarding the setting up of the mag.
Not quite sure when someone suggested Not Ron. I have little or no knowledge of Enfields if it was me you meant, but I will be at the Thumpers trial on Sunday near within 25 miles of Chelmsford if I can help Dave Dix.
I may have got it wrong, but do you not ride a rigid Norton ?
lol, (good though)
New Swm Owner....
in SWM
Posted
Thats the way mine should look.