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Hi again folks, sunny Vancouver Island cafe racer man checking in.
Is there a cast rear wheel with a drum brake I can use on my 77 roadster (standard)?
I would prefer a 18 inch but would use a 16 inch if I have to... I have today swapped the front wheel from spoked to cast because the...
My take on "wooden" brakes is imagine squeezing a wooden fence post, no movement no matter how hard you squeeze... with brakes a combination of too large a diameter master cyl with braided brake lines gives a brake lever that doesn't move much when it is squoze. Squeeze it harder and you get...
Makes a heluvamess over the back of the bike, but that's what the Great God Honda and mothership yamahamaha invented chain guards for...
but that's a whole nother thing to disagree about!
Set the valve clearances and check the cam timing. Then check the ign timing then check you have the right plug cap on the right plug... Then check you have the right point connected to the right coil.......
Mon ami, votre enterprise est un escapade personale.
Methinks youm on a personal learning curve mayet, there bay mooch we con tell yer that yow cor learn yersel
Binny from the Black Country
When returning a bike brake system to use from a total strip down, clean and rebuild it can be a devil of a job to fill and bleed the system. The difficulty is getting all the air out of the hydraulic cylinder of the master cyl. It can take ages and hundreds of pumps. One way of speeding the...