Bike looks great against the industiral doors.
I think you need a period lid to go with the bike & gloves Raymond.....
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2003 Royal Enfield 500 Deluxe
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I think you need a period lid to go with the bike & gloves Raymond.....
Actually own a Stadium open-face helmet, wear it maybe once a year? Safety over style in that area, methinks.
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Regular readers will have noticed that riding the Bullet is funny. One little joke the bike tells on sunny days, you're riding along, look down at the shadow on the road and the flaming thing has gained disc brakes. Those bacon grinders when they're spinning, the shadows look exactly like it's got a pair of drilled discs.
Optical illusions, eh?
Optical illusions, eh?
Are they just decorative or do they serve some actual function?
I wuz told as an impressionable kid the bacon slicers were supposed to enhance a bikes front brake by adding cooling surface to aid heat dissipation. Didn't some racing brakes have exaggerated hub ribs to reduce fade from heat of friction with huge drum brakes?
But really the ones like on my Bullet are just fashionable add-ons with at best marginal benefits. Bikers must have wanted add to the cafe racer image of an owner-rider seeking the utmost in performance . . .
. . . even on a 500 Bullet.
But really the ones like on my Bullet are just fashionable add-ons with at best marginal benefits. Bikers must have wanted add to the cafe racer image of an owner-rider seeking the utmost in performance . . .
. . . even on a 500 Bullet.
Funny they would call them a "bacon slicer". All the industrial bacon slicers I was around the blades were anything but round. Can't think of the name of the shape of them. Now baloney slicers the blade was round sometimes.
When I were a kid, folk used to buy fresh sliced bacon and you would see the shop assistant using the sharp rotating circular blade to cut it for them.Funny they would call them a "bacon slicer". All the industrial bacon slicers I was around the blades were anything but round. Can't think of the name of the shape of them. Now baloney slicers the blade was round sometimes.
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To me that's a toy. I worked on slicers similar to this. Ones I worked on did 800 slices a minuet. Now I see they are up to 2000. At the plant I worked at they sliced 1 million lbs of bacon a week. I've been gone from there over 15 years I'm sure they do way more than that now.
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This afternoon, just a little dander along one of my private roads. Well, of course it's not a private road or anything like that, I just mean the many little lanes which nobody would usually take unless they lived along one of them. But on a motorbike - especially on an old fashioned motorbike - it's more fun using these little roads than charging around on the main roads.
Today was the Sandystones road from the tiny Hamlet of Longnewton to, uhm, nowhere. But it does pass a couple of farms including Sandystones before joining back up with the Roman road. And I was amazed to find it has been re-surfaced. Loads of roads need resurfacing, the council tells us there's no roads budget, but this little road to nowhere gets the shout? Rather odd.
Weather getting colder and not sure if I have seen the first signs of salt. But it was a warm and sunny afternoon so I gave the Bullet a wash before putting away.
Feels like continued use of 2-wheelers is at one of those annual inflexion points?
Today was the Sandystones road from the tiny Hamlet of Longnewton to, uhm, nowhere. But it does pass a couple of farms including Sandystones before joining back up with the Roman road. And I was amazed to find it has been re-surfaced. Loads of roads need resurfacing, the council tells us there's no roads budget, but this little road to nowhere gets the shout? Rather odd.
Weather getting colder and not sure if I have seen the first signs of salt. But it was a warm and sunny afternoon so I gave the Bullet a wash before putting away.
Feels like continued use of 2-wheelers is at one of those annual inflexion points?
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Sounds like a beautiful ride Raymond.
Going to be 111 degrees here today ( 44 Celsius) Would you like me to send a little heat your way?
Thank you, Bob! Pity that's not how it works with weather, thought appreciated thoSounds like a beautiful ride Raymond.
Going to be 111 degrees here today ( 44 Celsius) Would you like me to send a little heat your way?
As we arrived home after filling the tank today, couldn't help spotting the odometer reading.
That's the pretty little Chronmetric replica.
That's the pretty little Chronmetric replica.
Making the most of a pleasant Autumn afternoon. Visited the Harestanes country park.
Our meanderings took us past a house we used to live in a good few years ago, stopped and took a photo for you lot.
Our meanderings took us past a house we used to live in a good few years ago, stopped and took a photo for you lot.
Another cup of tea and catch-up with Elliot. Off to Wooler again but this time took the Bullet. Or maybe the Bullet took me to Wooler? Elliot on his R75/5 again.
Mazing number of people stopped to look at the bikes. A few came over to ask questions and offer compliments.
Not very warm but a beautiful morning. 66 mile round trip and the Bullet behaved very well. Even with its, uhm, modest performance you can still have fun, as in taking a main-road series of bends at 60mph and watching the mirrors to see how long until following traffic appears out of the last bend. Ages . . .
Such fun with the Nirvana Express / Anachronism / Naughty Girl - maybe TNG fits best?
Mazing number of people stopped to look at the bikes. A few came over to ask questions and offer compliments.
Not very warm but a beautiful morning. 66 mile round trip and the Bullet behaved very well. Even with its, uhm, modest performance you can still have fun, as in taking a main-road series of bends at 60mph and watching the mirrors to see how long until following traffic appears out of the last bend. Ages . . .
Such fun with the Nirvana Express / Anachronism / Naughty Girl - maybe TNG fits best?
Getting late in the year, salt on the roads, time to have a look at the Bullet's gearbox.
Step One, take bikes out from garage. Not a scene that is often, uhm, seen.
But a necessary step to make enough space to move stuff around in there.
That's better, enough room to swing a cat now. As we say in Britain. After sweeping the leaves out, will decide where the bike lift can best be sat to allow work on the Bullet from all sides while also leaving enough space to put the other bikes back in. Maybe the Interceptor should go where the bike lift sits now? Uhm, no, that will block access to the shelves . . .
On reflection, not one of the worst problems in life to face.
Plan now is take primary oil out of the Bullet, shove it on the lift, dismantle the gearbox. Don't know what I'm up to, weather going to be cold for the next few months, this could take a while.
Step One, take bikes out from garage. Not a scene that is often, uhm, seen.
But a necessary step to make enough space to move stuff around in there.
That's better, enough room to swing a cat now. As we say in Britain. After sweeping the leaves out, will decide where the bike lift can best be sat to allow work on the Bullet from all sides while also leaving enough space to put the other bikes back in. Maybe the Interceptor should go where the bike lift sits now? Uhm, no, that will block access to the shelves . . .
On reflection, not one of the worst problems in life to face.
Plan now is take primary oil out of the Bullet, shove it on the lift, dismantle the gearbox. Don't know what I'm up to, weather going to be cold for the next few months, this could take a while.
You could get a nice diesel heater for that lovely workshop Raymond?
Thinking about the same soloution for my lockup too.
Thanks for the suggestion, Ads. Don't fink I'll be rigging up diesel heater & radiator but it's an idea. Have a little convector and I suppose in cold weather that should put on before breakfast to warm the garage up a bit.
After this morning's efforts:
The Interceptor now sits to left of picture, where it will mainly be left alone. Until somebody buys it . . .
The W800 will probably be main transport now and just needs to be rolled outatheway to give good access to the Bullet.
After this morning's efforts:
The Interceptor now sits to left of picture, where it will mainly be left alone. Until somebody buys it . . .
The W800 will probably be main transport now and just needs to be rolled outatheway to give good access to the Bullet.
Gearbox outer cover removed.
This is all new territory to me. Lower right the gearshift, upper left the neutral finder. And they are linked but I suspect that M-shaped cover on the neutral finder hides some form of adjustment - take it apart at peril. Put together just so and you have four gears and neutral, get it off by a fanny hair* and you have a box full of problems.
Oh, let's be positive, it'll be fine - but taking plenty piccies. Enuff for today.
* post script - fanny in the English not the American sense of the word. So the degree of accuracy relates to a lady's pube.
This is all new territory to me. Lower right the gearshift, upper left the neutral finder. And they are linked but I suspect that M-shaped cover on the neutral finder hides some form of adjustment - take it apart at peril. Put together just so and you have four gears and neutral, get it off by a fanny hair* and you have a box full of problems.
Oh, let's be positive, it'll be fine - but taking plenty piccies. Enuff for today.
* post script - fanny in the English not the American sense of the word. So the degree of accuracy relates to a lady's pube.
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I must’ve missed it, is your gearbox giving you problems?