New Builds - Learners

Hi John,

Maybe keeping a few in the house helps us!


Regards


Eddie

It doesn´t happen to all of us, Ed -- just picks one of us out, now and again.

I think it was you who said he was hoping to learn some basic technical stuff & if so I´d recomend Roy Bacon´s "Two Stroke Tuning" book, published by Transport Bookman -- probably available from Amazon -- book number is
ISBN 0 8518 4039 6 -- of course its an ancient publication, 1981, but basic
rules don´t change....

All the best!

Hi John,

Thanks for that, i know that book is in dads collection so i will dig it out and have a read so i might understand some of the topics better.


Kind Regards



Eddie

Good Evening all,

Do we have and new builds/learners with progress reports and maybe a few pictures to show what have been going on?



Kind Regards




Eddie

Could do a verbal examination in the break between Bantam races about mid-saeson 2012 ----???

Errr!

I just learned a lesson from Derek -- I THINK! -- he said put it in layman´s terms and I realized that what I had been saying -- on `Heavy Flywheels´ and "PV to the gamma minus 1..." -- might have been theorems to degree students in McGill or Concorde universities in Montreal [(where I was invited to talk about engines --- DIESEL engines!!!)]

Why does everybody call me BigHead...??? I asked my Mum and She said shut-up and go a fetch half-cwt of taters from the greengrocer in your hat...

Ed, don´t hesitate -- don´t think that what you ask might be laughed at -- just ask.

If I can´t answer I´ll pass it on to Trevor, McScutt, Mike Powell, James Cook, Alan Brown and about twenty others who have a mass of experience in making Bantams
go quick and why they work like they do....


Cheers!

JayBee for John-Boy!

here's mine , made a start on the rear subframe adding the rearsets , made some cups to hold taper bearings for the forks ,and a top yoke that still needs finishing. got lots to do , enjoying it so far !

Was the top yoke machined from scratch?


Have to admire all the bantam builders and the talent that goes in.



Kind Regards



Eddie

it was all made by me, i'm lucky enough to have access to most types of machinery mills(cnc too) lathes drills grinders spark eroder
wire eroder etc etc ,

Good Evening All,

Any tips on the best way/areas to secure fit a 125 Powell/Scutt type fairing, i can pass this on to dad and then sort the exhaust. Any pictures would be appreciated.



Regards



Eddie

Those rear shocks fitted fine I see Ed, hope to see you out on her soon, Mike

Is it The Kitchen?

-- as a WorkShop??

--Wow! I love it!

My dear departed Mother-in-Law would surely have loved that --


--- proves it´s a MAN´s world.

Gave it some thought -- and I think now the trouble with putting things in Layman´s Terms
might be tending towards romanticising.
That is, there are always two views of everything*** the Scientific one where everything
is measured and proved by having obeyed the theoretical laws established by scientists
and by getting the appropriate maths correct...
And oh & ah! the other one -- where you wet a finger and say, "I fink it´s the `eavy flywheel
what´s goin´ ter put fings right," could be a catastophic guess.

Only joking, I just made a resolution to try and keep things very simple....!

***those two views were my Mother-in-Law´s & mine -- now she has passed on, bless her!,
I am only the who is right!

Yes Nick, I know, its just a load of BullShine!

Hi Mike,


Yes they do fit fine, thanks for helping sort out that part of the build.

John,


Yes it is the kitchen and one of the many areas that gets used for bikes, no women in this house!


As for the the other questions, dad is the one who is going to race, im just helping along the way as im fiddling with my bantam projects. Been a guide weekend bantam fiddling.

Yes we do have a greeves but i think you might have a problem making it turn corners!


Kind Regards



Eddie

Just checking exhaust routes and parts of the fairing we may have to cut.

Looks good!

Tried to send a couple of pics -- did you get anything Ed? -- or a great pile of irrelevant snapshots
like my Mum on my Dad´s New Hudson solo, circa 1926... ?

What happens is that I scan a photo and HP Copy Service takes up the screen. Then when I attach what
I just scanned I find out from the other end that something (somethingS more often) else, out of my files,
has been sent...

It´s like I am once again out of control of things -- like when I was road-racing, often out of control!!!

Hi John,


Got your email but nothing at all was attached or scanned with it.


Regards


Eddie

looking good Ed my bikes would come together a lot quicker if i was allowed to build them in the house

Tony

Thanks Tony,

Well it saves messing about in the sheds and garage i suppose!



Eddie

Built the green bike outside the kitchen and in the living room but now all my bikes/projects are a mile away in a powerless garage, whilst I'm stuck here baby sitting the nippers!


Hopefully get mine in sprint trim soon though


Tony

pics to follow, don't hold your breath

That must be a pain having no power, always liked the sprinters, im sure dad has some photos of your bantam/x7 from being at a sprint a while back.


Regards



Eddie

Looking great ! do I se a spare motor as well?

Thanks for that Ted,

The engine on the table is from the red rigid one, i had to strip it after the piston/barrel incident as i wanted to make sure no bits had got inside. Luckily i did and found the missing barrel piece.


Kind Regards



Eddie

Edward Pickering wrote:

That must be a pain having no power, always liked the sprinters, im sure dad has some photos of your bantam/x7 from being at a sprint a while back.


Regards



Eddie

Work on a youth motor project so can get the odd thing done though yes have spoke with your dad on several occasions remember him at Wroughton and Lydden too, good to see all your ideas coming together after all these yrs

Well we have had a few hurdles (not bike related) The last cadwell was probably where dad got the best incentive to push forward, maybe people relaxed and chatty? ( Still upmost respect to robbie at lydden, a man going out of his way to get new learners involved)



Kind Regards



Eddie