Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: EVILDR235 on December 24, 2019, 12:50:36 PM
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Me and my family want to wish everybody a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and wishing you don't find any GLOBEMASTER tools under your tree.
EvilDr235
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Thanks! And Merry Christmas to everyone. I bought myself a sort of present, but not a vintage classic. Got a pair of Irwin Vise-Grip clamps - the c-clamp style in the smaller size but with the extended reach. Had to reach into the frame of motorcycle Project 39-1/2 to clamp the oil tank bracket for welding.
Still in the "rough draft" stage, this pic is from earlier this year.
(https://i.postimg.cc/d3vSC9dh/IMG-8558-01.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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I rode the hell out of one of those in the old days ! Taught me a lot about motorcycle repair !
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That looks like an interesting project. If I'm understanding the pictures correctly, it's a 1960s or so motor (and frame?) with modern bodywork, forks, wheels, and brakes? And whose headlight bucket is that? From here, it looks like a BMW R50 (or 60)/2 with a non-original headlight surround, but I think I must be misinterpreting what I'm seeing.
I rode the hell out of one of those in the old days ! Taught me a lot about motorcycle repair !
Nothing like riding a motorcycle with enough vibration to guarantee parts will fall off to teach repair lessons, yes! My first bike, a BMW R27, offered the same feature. If I knew then what I know now, I would not have had to repair the exhaust so often. BMW rubber-mounted the motor, and then rigidly mounted the exhaust, ensuring frequent breakage. If I had it now, I'd engineer some flexible mounts for the whole exhaust system.
But then, if I knew then what I know now, I might not be riding...
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Yes, Bill and Papaw, my favorite cycle saying is "Triumph Motorcycles, making ordinary men into mechanics since 1902"! It was true for me beginning in 1974 when I bought my second motorcycle, a '69 Triumph Bonneville.
Project 39-1/2 is named because of my boss at the glass shop. I always had some bicycle or craft project I was working on and he would say "What's that? Project 39-1/2?".
The bike frame and bodywork is a 1968 Wards Riverside Mojave, made in Italy by Benelli, sold by Montgomery Ward. Hence my interest in Riverside and Master Quality tools. The engine is a '72 650 Triumph. The chassis - wheels, forks, brakes and rear half of the swingarm are scavenged from an '85 Cagiva Alazurra 650, a bike similar to a Ducati Pantah. An Italian bike but I believe it was built in Germany. The headlight is similar to the old BMW but is from a Ural Russian motorcycle. (It solved the problem of where to put the speedometer!). The oil tank is a very modified Harley Sportster tank. There are bits from a Ford tractor and a Howard Rotavator. I've tried to use metric flange head fasteners wherever possible, many of which came from Jap bike makers. A truly International project.