Recent content by ianstaley

I will certainly give you my honest opinion. problem with HD's they all appear to be a bit agricultural. But I must say the 883 feels very comfortable, good balance and a low centre of gravity. With luck it may well help me to avoid getting a mouth full of tarmac. :smilie_happy: :smilie_happy:

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Your dead right there V, it shakes when stationary, the engine is on rubber mounts. As for going Milwaukee, yes your right, but and this is a BIG BUT, I won't be selling the GL when it is finished, I was looking for a Honda Shadow with low miles and 700cc couldn't find one that was good and they...

Hi all long time my fault, well still working on the GL1000 so that will continue for some time yet, but for some I have bad news and for others, they will see the why. Any way, I have bought a Harley 883 low. now it is a nice bike, she is 2006, on Carbs so no fuel injection (been told that is a...

In that case I would sit out on the back porch shotgun in hand just cleaning it .

Holy crap nothing better to do to spend her time. I would such a neighbour so long as I owned my house. here as I rent they can throw me out for doing such things, Bad neighbour policy.

Why don't ya spray anything green weed killer at night over both properties and just wait. When they ask whtf, just say yeas I am sure I seen someone the other night mooching around. but I didn't take any notice. Even better get some dummy CCTV cameras wait till they go up then do the gardens...

Still coating sorry.

Thanks to two of the most important men that inspire me. Merry Christmas and lets hope for a great new for all the members. :salute: :clapping:

Thanks V means a lot.

okay so as to the colour that I am leaning towards it is on a wheel but it should give an idea, so the engine block and heads, piping shall be done in the cream or ivory some of the flat covers too. so here is a wheel that has just been done.

I think it may have been a blow hole in the casting that has only come out during a regrind. can happen I am sure,but anyway that is fixed now. Juts need to decide on the colour of the engine block. I have just has a set of my Winter wheels re powder coated, the colour is real nice a sort of...

So not last night as promised as my hip was killing me, but done it 10 minutes ago, so here is the exhaust valve that has the hole in it. I have photographed it on a piece of white paper and with the arrow to the hole. It is very small and doesn't go all the way through as I first thought but is...

It is just water and Bicarbonate of Soda, so you need two heads one for the water under pressure and the Soda also under pressure. if you go to Eastwood you can get the idea there IE https://www.eastwood.com/autobody/blasti ... sters.html. I don't have an Eastwood's here so no point in buying...

So here are the promised pictures of the heads now, first one how they were before cleaning with the ultrasonic cleaner and being media blasted I say media as the guy who does it uses different media in his blasting machine. So I know he vapour blasted but with what don't know, soda I think...