Whats it all about ?????

Over 30 years of buying, breaking, building, cutting, welding, riding and selling greasy old mo'sickles. Bare bones bikes from the middle of nowhere!

Friday 30 December 2011

Anyone fancy a little business in the Highlands?

Small rural filling station on the busy A832, closed a few years ago but was turning over in excess of £350K of fuel. Potential for developement into an unmanned station which would increase its profitablity dramatically and also increase turnover considerably due to extended hours. Grants are available to do this.  The two underground tanks and one bunded steel tank above ground have been kept with a liquid seal, the pumps have been removed and capped. Services on site, Timber building will need renovation or replaced with a more suitable workshop/retail type building. Half acre site has outline planning for a 1.5 storey house.

email me for more detail stevplowman@hotmail.co.uk


Feelin like....

T for sale :o(

http://modeltfordspeedster.blogspot.com/2011/12/with-regret.html

Friday 23 December 2011

2002 Mille R Factory rep for sale

Just had Ohlins shock  rebuild (by Ohlins) forks serviced, new top yoke conversion new tyres, Renthal bars. Recent battery and checked over by Mitchells MCs in Inverness. MOT til September 2012... Taxed til 30/09/12 -  16000 miles

£2500 would consider cheap big traillie in PX
ON EBAY 

Monday 19 December 2011

Itching to get on with the T

Going to get started on it once the weather clears up






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Sunday 11 December 2011

Wheels for the long chop

6 spoke 19" Invader square spoke up front
16" eight square spoke Invader for the back ... just scored off the bay of fools

Sunday 4 December 2011

Powerplant for the long chop



early 80's Ironhead, no kicker, leccy boot only but all there and ready to roll 8)

Change of plan

Was going to work on the trials landy today........ Maybe not!




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Tuesday 29 November 2011

Tigger's Trials and Tribulations

Tigger was my old series one Landrover, a 1958 swb that I bought in 1988 from Alex Lindsay in Broxburn.It was already kitted out for CCV trials with the fuel tank boxed into the pick up bed and a very dodgy steam tube roll bar. The drive home highlighted a few ..er . issues. First off the motor was knackered , it was still fitted with the old IOE 2l that it had had when it left Solihull, the bigends were rumbling away and it smoked its way through a couple of pints of oil on the slow run home to Glasgow.
I was lucky, my Dad managed to get me an ex MOD 2l IOE motor that had been used by the army cadets as a demo motor. It came in a crate with a little brass plate on the side that said it had been rebuilt by the REME in 1964 and it didnt look like it had been fired up since!

The motor was swapped in over a weekend and fitted with an alloy head from a Rover 60 saloon car and a freshly rebuilt SU carb. Fitted a front axle with the bigger 11" drums up front from a later series 3 LWB and 5 leaf springs as used on MOD airportable (lightweight) landys.

I took the now much healthier tigger over to Alex in Broxburn and had him fit a full truck cab roll cage to the then new ARC regs and fitted a set of Firestone SAT tyres onto wide weller spoke wheels


For the best part of 5 years Tigger was my only car, used every day to get to work on the building sites, and trialled with the SLROC at weekends, it only finally got taken off the road in 1998 to get the chassis replaced..... after years of abuse it had cracked right through below the cab, it was only the roll cage holding it together!


I moved north from Stirling in 1998 with Tigger in bits strapped to a trailer with the intention of rebuilding it with a new galvanised chassis once I had some spare time.................

Five years on, The engine had been sold to a friend to keep his series one going, the body work had all but dissapeared with various uninvited visits from tinks in white vans to the yard where it was being kept, and all I was left with was a logbook, a flatpacked rollcage,  and a V5c. An advert on the Highland 4wd Clubs website caught my eye.. and a trip down to Drumnadrochit saw me coming home with a spaceframed coil sprung special strapped to the trailer..... Tigger2 had arrived!!!


An early rangerover rolling chassis cut n shut to 86" wheelbase and fitted with a tubular space frame with trimmed down series one wings and doors. The motor is a nice and healthy late 60's Rover V8 from a P6 saloon car mated up to a rangerover 4 speed box..








Monday 21 November 2011

The Anderson Special

Built and developed in the 1920's and '30s by Glasow garage owner James Anderson. The Mk2 Anderson Special is powered by twin humber engines and was a successful hill and road trial car of its time.


Some really forward thinking innovations on the csr, fold away headlamps, wind up main windscreen, fully independent suspension...

















The mk2 was capable of speeds in excess of 100mph and was very competitive in its day.
Now on display at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow

Id love to take it for a blast up the "Rest and be thankful"

Thursday 17 November 2011

The Black Sheep gets Ram Air

Rosie did some artwork on the Ironhead's air cleaner 8-)



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Monday 7 November 2011

Thursday 27 October 2011

2005 Harley Fatboy for sale

Rowans everyday bike.... contact him via the Sprunghubs n Hardtales blog

Harley Davidson 2005 FLSTFi Fatboy

88B 1450cc Injection
S&S 510 Cams
Timken Bearings
S&S Oil Pump and Cam Gear Kit
Doherty Mystfree Engine Breathers
SE Heavy Air Breather
SE II Slip on Exhausts
Progressive fork springs and competition fork oil
fully mapped ignition
upgraded idler injector
immobilizer, alarm and DNA coded
LED Flush fit caps and a whole pile of the usual extras
To include original tank, seat, passenger backrest, exhaust, airfilter, factory service and parts manuals

I Bought this bike in 2006 while living in Europe, it was imported earlier this year when I moved back to England and is now on an English date related registration, the headlight and KPH speedo were replaced for UK compliant headlight and MPH speedo it has done 40,000 miles in total and I have the previous KPH speedo which documents this, it has an excellent service history and has had the oil changed every 5000km (3100mls) with no expense spared, it has always been run on Mobil 1 engine oil and S&S oil Filters, it has excellent Avon Venom tyres, good drive belt and brake pads and has road tax till November 2012 and MOT till March 2012… this bike is a press and go anywhere machine that makes for a great tourer but also has the advantage of a tweeked engine (£4,000 in engine work) it now has enough attitude to set parked car alarms off when it passes them and when it comes on cam will chew up and spit out any of the newer standard 96cui 6 speed harley’s. This bike is ultra reliable !!
I’m going to miss this mile eater but I must sell it to complete other projects, only serious enquiries please