'68 BSA Victor Build..... Bloody 'el mate... You 'effin daft or sommat?!?

Jim said:
Was ponderin' last night... pneumatic piston actuator attached to the kick lever with pushrods and such to make it unobtrusive... with a small (propane bottle?) air tank. A 5sq in piston at 20 psi is 100lbs of force.
Bottle at 125...150psi would likely give a dozen or so "kicks."
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Hardly macho Jim.
 
CON Grats on the Brit thumper ..... My buddy had the round barrel model.. he and I used to pound the back roads of Wisconsin ,,, he on his Victim and I on my Jupiter. ( for some odd reason we always wound up at the nudie bar ).... A couple years back my Triton fell over downstairs and hit the concrete sqaure support column... AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaargh Huge HUGE crease in the aluminum tank. I wanted to barf..... but one of the saturday morn'n Star Buck rejects is a old school metal guy. Good as new.... PM me if you want his number. :cool:
 
gggGary said:
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:sneaky:I may have some short stroke pneumatic cylinders laying around, probably have a pretty heavy flask for an accumulator as well.
 
RustiePyles said:
:sneaky:I may have some short stroke pneumatic cylinders laying around, probably have a pretty heavy flask for an accumulator as well.
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PM me some pics when you get home... or when you find 'em in that mess garage that rivals my mess garage in the tidy dept. :laugh2:
 
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Jim said:
But but but.... but... it spoke to me... :cautious:
'Sides... I ain't got enough projects.... yet. :rolleyes:
It's a '68 BSA Victor Special (B44) Scrambler.
Came up on Craigslist a little over a week ago. I even put it up here. Figured it'd be gone within a day. Last night it was still listed. Memories of the early 70's... tearin' up the midlands on a Victor... had been gettin' stronger all week... it called to me. Spoke to the guy over the phone... back and forth several times. We struck a deal.
Gassed up the truck this morning and off we go to visit Dorothy and Toto.

Sittin' in Butch's garage. He's 74. Picked it up out of a barn a few yrs ago with the intention of restoring it. A stroke about a year ago ended those dreams.

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Loaded in the Blue Bomber....

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... and unloaded by the driveway wood pile.

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Only 3,173 miles on the clock.

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Original title matches the engine and frame numbers.

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So... where to begin.... :umm:
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Congrats. This is still one of my all time favourite bikes. Never owned one but my buddy did. This summer I was surfing through local ads and found a guy nearby that had restored one, but couldn’t get it to run right. In frustration he put it up for sale. I was the second to contact him but unfortunately the first guy snatched it up. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product!
 
MrBultaco said:
You got a service manual this fast? :umm:. That's great 'service '.
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It was a download... free at that. I just printed it out 'cause I like reading from a page more than a monitor. Ran out of ink though. One more chapter to go. :rolleyes:
Mailman said:
I’m still figuring out details about this bike, do I understand correctly that there were different barrel designs? I’ve heard references to a square barrel. How are the fins on your motor, any bent or broken?
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Yeah, some models were plain iron bores and some had chrome bores. Haven't dug deep enough yet to know which is which. I believe square or round refers to the fins. If that's correct, this one's a square barrel. Fins are absolutely perfect.... amazing.
 
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