A man of many projects

239desmo

239desmo

Is it nearly bedtime?
Came across a few videos of a pal of mine who has done a fair bit of paintwork for me amongst other things over the years including the paint on my project.

Video here will give you an idea of the sort of stuff he gets up to. Links from that take you to some of his other projects. His Matchless flat tracker project is now finished and sounds amazing. He even has a dummy "NOS" bottle fitted just to upset the purists! :lol2:

I have seen bikes he has built from the remnants of a couple pieces of rusty frame. One of the guys in life who can solve any problem if it involves 2 wheels. Rick Parkington from Classic Bike has picked his brains over the years on various topics.
 
Talented guy like the sound of the flat tracker, read about somthing similar years ago about a guy who built a V twin using B50 top ends and crank cases machined from billet.
 
sam said:
Talented guy like the sound of the flat tracker, read about somthing similar years ago about a guy who built a V twin using B50 top ends and crank cases machined from billet.
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This will be the one you are thinking of Sam. Apparently there were 5 built.
 
Derek said:
This will be the one you are thinking of Sam. Apparently there were 5 built.
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Not sure I think it was in the classic bike mag way before Jap bikes were introduced to the mag, it had only been bench tested or approaching a bench test.
 
Sid took this AJS on the Moidart run last year; beautiful, as are all his bikes, mostly vintage V twins.
 
Did he not have a gearbox failure on this on the way back and ended up down an embankment or similar?
Stripped the gearbox at the roadside and rode home with one gear.
He also built a frame for a bike where he used a sheet of wallpaper to trace out roughly the outline of a frame on a museum bike and took that home and used it as a template to build his own.
He had a Triumph Hurricane until recently which he fitted a topbox to carry his bits and peices and use it all year round (snow/ice included) as his means of transport.
At a rally last year he and his brother were heading to the start and his brother lost the charging system on his old Triumph.
The 2 of them limped to a nearby scrappy yard and asked the owner if he had any old tellys. He said he did but how were they going to carry one on their bike.
They said they just wanted parts out of them so yard owner gave them the telly for free and provided a soldering iron while they built a temporary charging system to get them home!
 
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