wheel nut torque

Sad how few adults can perform the simplest of basic repairs or maintenance of a bike. I have friends who take their bikes to shops to get tyres changed.

Tim

I have a completely home built trials bike (Frame number HCS001 = Harry Cheeseman Special No.1, I kid you not) Several BSA Bantams. A 1966 Honda S90. I don't think there are any others now. I got rid of the Moto Guzzi V7 Special, the 1976 Honda 400/4, the TS185, the GT185, the CB77, the several C72s, the TL125, the Rickman Metisse, Triumph

Oh, +1.

I managed to give one of our daughters friends enough confidence and support that she is now doing most stuff on her bike herself, even if she still get's me to give it a 'once over' on anything major she's done.

I found my first bike in a ditch when I was at secondary school. My parents made me hand it in at the Police Station and 6 weeks later I claimed it as mine. ;-)

I stripped, re-painted, rebuilt everything (inc wheel spindles etc) and then used it for school (and a YHA cycling trip) from then till I got the first moped.

My latest bike is a trail spec '29'er' but I've not finished setting it up yet.

Cheers, T i m

Wow, sounds impressive. ;-)

Does 'Bantam' say it all or where there several variations MrC? (My first girlfriend was racing Bantams).

I remember that, like a big boys 4/ FS1E?

I love the exhaust sound.

Little howler! ;-)

Smoky green-laner. ;-)

Looks like a little 'ram air' model.

A Japanese English bike. ;-)

Very curvy. ;-)

Reminds me a bit of daughters TY80.

Very specialised. ;-)

You sure have had a good selection.

You have indeed. Was there one that was particularly had to let go of and if so, why?

Cheers, T i m

have you seen the price thouse little tiddlers are making on ebay these days

I suspect if you held a poll of the most-loved British motorbikes of all time, the Bantam would most likely come top.

That is easy: My mk1 Norton Commando (that I swapped to get the 400/4)

I am intending to get them all in one heap and put the lot on ebay, just cannot seem to get the inclination or time. I have seen the amazing prices individual bits make, but that would take forever.

The one that I really miss as well, was the YAS1 that was stolen.

Ah, thanks.

Cheers, T i m

There were many models of Bantam from 125 - 175 with lots of different chassis styles, mine are all 175 three speed with swing arm. Several of my friends were prominent in the Bantam racing club back in the 70's/80's

That looks / sounds very similar to the Mrs's first learner bike, her KH125. She used to easily keep up with me on the RB350. ;-)

Mind you, the MZ ETZ 251 'Saxon tour' that I recovered from a bike shop fire and restored, sold to my mate, 80k miles later he gave to our daughter and she gave back to him when she got the Bandit, was also quite nippy, being both 2/ and light.

Cheers, T i m

The thing with the YAS1 was the revs, God knows what it went to, but it absolutely screamed, there seemed to be no upper rev limit. The 400/4 was pretty good on that score too : 12,000 was quite achievable, and on the open Marving exhaust was quite something to hear.

One of the other bikes I used for ages was a Triumph 750 twin,a sort of chopper version (from the factory) that was very pleasant.

I've got the remains of one from the Brunnel Uni race "team".

possibly, certainly lots of interest in the early ones I passed my test on a D1 in the early 60s and its not that long ago that people were giving them away for a few bear tokens now they going for upto £4K I still have a D3 buried at the bottom of the garage

It's actually pretty rare for an ECU to fail. However, the sensors feeding it can and do. And can usually be tested with a basic DVM.