So much cleaning!Cleaning of wheels, plastic bits, electrical bits; cleaning of everything which came off the bike and will be…
These are the bearings I have used The second hand bottom yoke I had, arrived with the bottom race still…
“Lubricate the inside surface of the caliper with fresh brake fluid and install the pistons. These should slide in with…
At long last, a post which talks about assembling rather than dismantling or cleaning!all of the elements of the forks…
The paint on a brake caliper is quite hard to remove.It requires multiple applications of Nitromors, followed by application of…
Last week, I attempted to clean my alloy fork legs with a kitchen scourer and some WD40. I had seen…
More pottering in the garage Yesterday with only a nebulous list of things to do.So a quick update on previous…
After attempting to pull the fork leg apart, and failing, I needed another quick look for the fork springs missing…
My last blog entry detailed the problems I was having in removing the fork cap/plug from the top of the…
Time to rebuild the front forks.I bought these new stanchions in 2018 because the price seemed right at £135 the…
To get to phase 1 (Bike up on it’s wheels), I need to connect the front forks and wheel to…
Last September I sketched out a draft To Do list, which started with… I have not yet fitted the head…
It’s time to start looking at the front brake caliper I bought from ebay. The Piston was scared and scored,…
The project continues, quietly, in the background for now. In September of 2020, I plucked up some courage and went…
In May of 2019, I noticed that the frame was beginning to rust.I had carefully left it in the garage…
In March 2015, I was just 5 years away from retirement.Having overcome the major hurdle to a rebuild, the frame…
After a couple of years of humming and hawing about what to do with the LC, I decided to rebuild…
She came home in a sorry state after many years of neglect and storage in non dry conditions. In particular,…
Sometime in the mid to late 1980’s, I acquired a motorcycle. This particular motorcycle was acquired as the result of…