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!

Saturday, 11 February 2012

Digga Digga Chop Chop

For Sale .... was gonna... but got back on track... so its gotta go
Paughco frame, Invaders, long barley twist springer, prismic tank etc etc
Frame is to suit a Sporty Ironhead but could take most motors with a bit of work ... email me 

The Spaniard

I like Montesas, my first proper bike was a 1972 Cota when I was 13. Ive had this '76 Montesa Cota 247 for about 12 years now, I ran it in standard trim for a while, had a trials sidecar on it for a while and had some greaat fun on it out on the hills and up in the woods over the years. About 7 or 8 years ago I took the fiberglass tank seat unit off it and had the alloy undertank modified so it was a secure fit, the seat is a Wassell universal trials one fitted to a seatbase from a '70s Bultaco. The motor is strong, it can be a bit tempremental sometimes but a pocketfull of sparkplugs and some fresh petrol usually gets the fun started!!

Derelicts

Hmmmm

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

All you need is a little corner

Somewhere to retreat to when you get a little spare time. A shed, a garage, a corner of the boxroom, the understair cupboard! Its amazing what you can get done if you have somewhere to work 8-)


Thursday, 26 January 2012

More Scottish Indian builders

I was down country at the weekend at a trade fair, I managed to get Sunday off and meet up with some other Indian builders in Central Scotland.

Neil Grieve's Nordian is a stunner, 84 cubic inches of Chief motor squeezed into a wideline featherbed frame, you can read Neil's build story here on the Virtual Indian



Neil has got a 640 Bonneville Sport Scout on the bench, he hopes to have it on the road this year, I cant wait to see it finished!


Next we headed over to see Willie in Falkirk, Willie bought a 1925 Scout motor and transmission from me a couple of years ago.. he's been busy gathering parts to build a wall bike, he has also picked up a 101 wall bike basket case, along with his 741 bobber and his son Scott's three Papooses they have their shed's full!








Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Paypal Scammers

Ive had quite a few paypal transactions over the last 10 years, i use it through ebay and for part sales from the blog or just for deals with mates, its quick easy and relatively cheap.

At the weekend i got this email about my Model T

"Hi,Do you still have it for sale? i will like to make an offer of the exactly amount you want to sell it,payment will be made through paypal and i will arrange for the pick up as well. Cheers, Andrew."

I emailed the fella back told him that i would prefer either cash on collection or bank transfer before collection, but didnt accept hi value transactions via paypal due to fees etc

I got a long winded reply saying that he was offshore and was buying the "item" for his son's birthday and paypal was the only way he could do the deal..... alarm bells ..... Pretty much the same woording and story we got in an email from a bogus online buyer trying to buy a £950 gold pendant from our shop (dayjob) using paypal

Sellers beware, paypal says the following in there terms

UNAUTHORISED PAYMENTS
If a fraudster gets hold of the details of a PayPal account (possibly because the account holder has fallen victim to a phishing email), it’s possible that you could receive an unauthorised payment.

DONT GET SCAMMED !


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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Blown away by this guy's pictures

this 101 racer is just perfect.... the shot is stunning

check out more here

Knobbly rubber goodness

18 quid for a lightly used road legal 120x18 enduro tyre,,,

i changed to a 18" rim when i rebuilt the wheel .......... ebay has its uses! 8o)


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I picked up this nicely beaten up ally tank

Tried it for size on ol Snorton this morning, could sit a bit lower but, its the right sorta shape

Monday, 16 January 2012

Strathbran with Ice




Brrrrr!!!!!!!   Think I'll leave the bikes in hibernation for a while yet!

Sunday, 15 January 2012

New bars

Treated the beastie to a set of Renthals and shorty ally levers




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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Using the Speedshop's wooden anvil

To drift out the wheel bearings and distance piece








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