Lucas type 679 Beehive Tailight

Received my new vintage Lucas type 679 ‘Beehive’ tailight from Trojan Classic Motorcycles. This was used on most British motorcycles from 1968-72. Looks very good, all I need to do now is make a nice looking bracket to mount it with.

Pre-loved stuff from the verge side

Who doesn’t love rummaging through piles of old junk? You never know what you might find! We are currently getting ready for a bulk rubbish collection, so everyone is piling up their junk on the verges. These are a few old bits I had pulled out of the piles. A couple of old leather straps & loops, some weathered timber veneer and a first generation iMac keyboard. Should be interesting to see how we can make use of these items.

Wrenchmonkees have my sticker on their door

The Wrenchmonkees got my sticker!

Go check out their blog & website, cool stuff!

http://wrenchmonkees.blogspot.com/

Crispy Cycles T-shirts

Get your original design Crispy Cycles T-shirt now, available in sixes XXL – S. Then when you get you shirt, take a pic of yourself wearing it and I’ll post it on my blog. Drop me a line at crispycycles@gmail.com for all the info.

Trial fit of 5x17 Supermoto wheel

Used my wheel building jig again to build a mock-up of the 5x17inch supermoto rim laced to the standard DR400 hub and a 150/70 street tyre. Looks really ‘tough’ bolted in place and looks like it will fit without too much trouble. Will need to modify the brake torque arm and probably make a spacer for the rear sprocket so the chain clears the tyre. I have also cut and shut the seat which I will recover using some old and some new materials.

I love it when a plan comes together….

By sheer luck it turns out that the DR400 and KX250 steering stems have exactly the same bearings, so it will make the fork swap a lot easier. The DR stem is on the left. If anyone wants to do a fork swap then I came across this useful document located at:

http://www.ohiocaferacers.com/OCRStemSizes.pdf

Mounted rear tyre, seat & tank.

Thanks to inertia@PSB for donating the rear tyre (yes it is street legal) and after digging through all of my boxes of parts, I found the missing tank rubber today and mounted up the fuel tank. The lower image is exactly how the bike looks now, the upper images I have actually photoshopped the seat so it is thinner and improves the lines. My final tank ‘sticker’ does not work so well now. Its kind of lost in the whole thing, so the larger ‘sticker’ seems to work better. Back to the drawing board then....