I am still patiently waiting for 3 major items to come in. Crankshaft, Cylinder Head and Exhaust System. The crankshaft is holding up the assembly of the engine bottom end, primary drive and final re-design of the rear engine plates. Once it is here I am also ready to fit the cylinder head and once…
End of year business travel and Christmas festivities behind us I managed to put in a couple of hours work yesterday to take stock of where the project is standing and what is next to do. The switch to the Norton engine has proven to be more complex than I had anticipated but then again…
My NRE engine man has still not given a sign of life. He does not answer phone calls, emails or letters and I am afraid he must be declared as being a fraudster. No normal person behaves in this manner. He does not pay rent for the premises he is in and he is being…
Business has brought me to the UAE and here I am on a Friday with nothing to do. 46 degrees outside so I’ll be staying put in my room with MySeeley project. The engine man reported crankcase issues in May with expected solution in June. Have still not heard from him. So, in the meantime…
Fork legs came back from Canada and this time everything lined up. My local CNC machinist made me the two brackets needed for the steering damper – one to attach to the front fork left leg and the other to hold it to the frame tube. The brackets are made of aluminium and therefore I…
Wheels came in and I went straight to my flexible rubber man and he put on the AVON tyres that had also just arrived. The rear axle was drawn up after a lot of head scratching. My frame maker had made me decide on a 14 millimeter diameter rear axle as that was the maximum…
The frame, engine plates, footrests, tank and a few other items have arrived and added to the pile of things that need to be assembled. I was a bit disappointed about the frame. It did not have quite the finish that I had expected. When looking at pictures of frames built by Roger Titchmarsh, his…
Email came in from Denny Barber, the frame guy, advising that the frame is ready except for the rear wheel adjusters so I guess I will have to arrange for shipping it over here in the next week or two. Denny has also made the engine plates in 8 mm Dural and he is offering…
