Lots of Work, Little to Show For

After two weekends of solid hard work there is an unfortunate lack of views. The CC boys have been enduring the tedious and time consuming jobs of cutting, grinding, filing, bracket making. All the necessary boring stuff that is vital but has visual effect. 

 

However! Good progress has been made! After hours of discussion the front mudguard has been mounted. With two neat and simple curved brackets it was welded and bolted on

 

The sticky carb problem has been solved with a piece of silicone tubing that has been cut to fit and held on air tight with jubilee clips.
 

The tank has been virtually mounted with only teeny bits to do, i.e. spacers, tank rubbers and move petcock. A friends seat has been used to give an uplifting view of what the bike will look like once completed. The seat will be slightly different to that that.

 

 Next up, the pesky rear end! Rear mudguard and frame fabrication! 

Another Delivery!

Whilst building there's always parts you've forgotten or couldn't get for ages or realised you want to change and so on. So a little order was made for Mackenzie. Included in that order was a the pesky inlet tubing for the carb, an eBay seller specialised in rubber and silicone hoses so it came from him!

 

 

As you can imagine he was very happy! Further progress will now happen!

Delivered

So today a package came from Tom at Holme Valley Customs. These super sweet M8 'top hat' bungs, they will certainly be used.

Cheers Tom!

 

Check out what sweet work he's doing over there and for more info on these top hats.

www.holmevalleycustoms.com

MCN Motorcycle Show 13'

So the CC boys headed to the Excel Centre for the Sunday MCN Motorcycle Show, as its only a 10 min drive away it would be silly not to check it out. There was a lot of merchandise for sale, helmets, clothes, panniers, bikes, you name it it was for sale. But Luke and Mackenzie were more interested in the bikes, the restored, the custom, the older outrageously fast race bikes to the vintage.

 

Sweet looking restored BSA

 

What a beaut, vintage Indian Racer

 

Drixton XS560, insane looking thing

 

Royal Enfield Bobber, painted by Ornamental Conifer

 

What a sweet looking engine

 

What a sweet Harley 125 two stroke Bobber, this was one of Mackenzie's faves

 

Crazy engineering, an S&S engine in a Norton feather bed frame

 

Husqvarna desert racer, haven't seen many of these before 

 

What on Earth is this? Insane, Luke hated it but Mackenzie was fixated by it!

 

 

 

 A Bikeexif special, the infamous Son of a Gun BSA, huge engineering went into this

 

Groovy Norton flat tracker

 

Overall it was a great show, great variety of bikes, and the boys even got to chat with the BMW poster girls for quite a while, result! After seeing some of the bikes the boys hope to enter next year in the custom competition! If they ever finish one .. .

A little something

So the next step was to mount the tank, once that was done the carb and its very awkward inlet bend could be properly looked at and mounted. To make things easier Mackenzie removed the wiring loom as the majority of it would be removed or modified.

 

 

So it happened, they finally mounted they tank with some simple lugs. Doesn't it look much cleaner? With the horrid bulky switches gone its revealed what nice bars the Van Van has.

 

 

A 5 3/4 Bates headlight will be fitted with a small vintage speedo.

 

Then the inlet was shortened so the carb would be as hidden as possible. The throttle cable at the top hit the tank, so with quick thinking from Luke and a bit of heat, the right hand underside of the tank was hammered to compensate.

The 2013 Red Bull Soapbox Race

Everyone knows about Red Bull and its wacky and/or extreme sports. This year the soapbox race is coming to London! After seeing it advertised on the tv, the Luke and Mackenzie had to enter! With over 4000 entrants and only 50 places, chances are slim, yet you never know. You don't win if you don't play! Wish us luck with our entry!
 



An offer you cant refuse

With Luke slowly but surely restoring his BSA B40 and a BSA B25 (Full coverage on that will be done at a later date!), a conversation on the subject broke out at the Black Skulls lock up with one of their friends. After chatting away about all things BSA the guy said he frequently uses his B40 and has a spare engine that he picked up cheapish about six years ago. Well the first response to that is "How much would you want for it?".With a reasonable price agreed Luke and Mackenzie went to pick it up.

 

 The lump was there waiting for us, next to a very rare and very clean Triumph scooter! 

 

Taking a 40kg + pre 70s lump was no easy feat! The boys got a few strange looks! 

A newly homed bit of classic British motorcycle engineering ready for a future project at CC HQ

 

An idea has arose what to do with it, but the boys are keeping it hush hush! keep up to date and see what they do with it!