Finally given in and ordered a gearbox/ transmission adaptor for my trolley jack. Always used my hydraulic motorbike lift in the past, but it's starting to look a bit secondhand as it doesn't like asymmetric loads. No point in ruining it as I suspect I'm going back to classic bike restoration in the future 'cos they take up less space and don't use so much welding stuff!
Good plan, after all a ZF is too lumpy to fiddle with woodblocks etc.
There doesn't exist a classic bike with model p38 btw?
True Tony. I have restored an old 200 Zundapp, Old Jawa trials bike, very old Ural as well as the more common Triumphs, BSA's (used to have a thing about triples) and much Jap stuff from late 60's to 80s.
Ferryman wrote:
Good plan, after all a ZF is too lumpy to fiddle with woodblocks etc.
There doesn't exist a classic bike with model p38 btw?
OB, do you know of an electroplaters that do a postal service, I need some bits redoing from my bike.
You could get in touch with Doug Taylor. He certainly does collection/ delivery in UK, so don't see why France would be an issue (at a cost of course!). If it's exhaust chroming you're after, you might be out of luck as most electroplaters won't touch them due to the contaminants messing up their expensive chemicals!
http://dougtaylor.co.uk/contact/
If you're after electroplating aluminium etc then Teign Metals might be able to do something. Not sure if they do "one off" stuff though
http://www.teignmetalfinishes.co.uk/contact-us/index.html
Thanks.
Doug Taylor looks promising. Its just re-chroming some trim bits that I cant buy anymore.
Now I dont have the car its time to put more effort in the bike.
Orangebean wrote:
True Tony. I have restored an old 200 Zundapp, Old Jawa trials bike, very old Ural as well as the more common Triumphs, BSA's (used to have a thing about triples) and much Jap stuff from late 60's to 80s.
Good old days. At 13 I started with a CZ, the clone of Jawa. A mate had a twin 2 stroke Victoria Bergmeister, with all the sheetmetal. I could not win.
Later I had the 500 cc single BSA, cost you a knee when starting the beast.
My first ever bike was an MZ150- brand new in 1975 for the princely sum of £231.00!
My old man had a 500cc BSA Gold Star single- now that really was a $ugger to start!
Ferryman wrote:
Good old days. At 13 I started with a CZ, the clone of Jawa. A mate had a twin 2 stroke Victoria Bergmeister, with all the sheetmetal. I could not win.
Later I had the 500 cc single BSA, cost you a knee when starting the beast.
Ha, I had an MZ 50 because that was all I could afford.
I wanted a used Yamaha RD200 but my Dad said that I'd kill myself on that Japanese rubbish. He didn't seem to have a problem with East German stuff though!