Heavy lifting, literally

Witold soldiers on and gets the engine out of the motorcycle all by himself (I've done this years ago on the Rising Star and it is no picnic).

Good job man, keep up momentum and you'll be riding this thing before you know it.

Ruminations.

This has been on my mind lately:

My chopper lays dormant in the garage, and has done so for far too long.

I won't have much time for riding this year, but there are two events I really wanna go to, and I'd like to take the BSA to one of them.

There is some work to do to fix a broken fuel tank and frame attachment, plus another project that I think could turn out really well.

Hopefully I can go from thinking to wrenching soon, there isn't much time. Damn time...

hibernation, n.

Pronunciation /hʌɪbəˈneɪʃən/
Definition: 1. The action of wintering, or passing the winter, esp. in some suitable place or condition.

Time for a new chain, possibly a new sprocket/drum and brake shoes set for the Interstate...

How to start the year.

Our friend "the German" shows us how it's done, scrambling off into the new year on his genuine competition Triumph:

(These were taken at the start of the year, sorry it's taken me this long to put them up!)

1 + 1 = 1, hopefully.

You may have seen Witold's BSA OIF (oil in the frame) project from a good while back; that was a nearly complete bike that had been found in a warehouse and needed a full rebuild.

Our man had actually started making progress, as you can see from today's featured post, however when he took a closer look at the frame it became apparent that it was quite badly bent. He took it to a local frame "specialist" who botched it even further to the point that it is now totally unusable.

So, what to do? One option would have been to source another frame, and keep looking the other missing parts. Another was to rescue this poor thing and apply the shaky math you see above: 1 bike + 1 bike = 1 complete and working bike, hopefully without too many parts leftover, or that we'd still need to find.

There is a LOT of work to do, but by no means impossible. Witold wastes no time and tears into bike number 2:

One thing's for sure: when it's done, this will be a spectacular motorcycle. There is a fairly ambitious deadline floating around, and currently it does feel like spring down here, so there isn't that much time to get this done. Press on man!