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Good to hear from you all. :D Been busy building a couple of Velocette bikes (old school - factory closed in 1971), selling my Jaguar stuff and building up my workshop. Also have a 1/2 share in my youngest's Triumph Daytona 675. Hopefully be able to get the SP roadworthy fairly quickly - but its jus...

or soon will be. Just won an auction on e-blag for SP-Y. Needs work but hope to be out by spring time. Pic when I've got it and remembered how to do them! Now have 5 bikes so think i need to sell one or two. Sounds like a cue for a reunion........ best start the debate now so we'll be ready by about...

Dave

If you are competent enough to take the tank, airbox and cam cover off, then fitting the manual CCTs is not difficult.
Don't be tempted to get the chain too tight. Remember it will tighten up once the engine gets hot and expands.

John

Done. Hope you get something out of it.
Good luck.

Nearly 6 years...............

As to age? Well you can double 29 and then add some!

Seb My son got done and challenged it on the basis that the radar gun wasn't calibrated properly. He asked for the type of gun, serial no. etc. Did lots of research. The police produced the "calibration" document. Apparently the type used only needs to be calibrated against a static target...

I had one. It was red!! Around 1978. It wasn't in as good a nick as this one looks. Had to replace the big ends after about 30k.

Take my hat off to you Beamish.

Good luck.

Thanks JB. Might do Cadwell anyway.

Sorry guys. I've lost the plot on this thread. (some would say lost it altogether).

Are we still going to BSB at Cadwell on 28 August??

If so count me in and I'll probably bring at least one other.

Jb Sounds like a MkI. I think these are brilliant little machines. Problem is that (like my Valiant) they cost more to restore than they can be sold for. Although prices are climbing slowly - usually several on e-bay. Very well engineered. No wonder Veloce Ltd. went under! I've only ridden the Valia...

Hi JB

I have two: A 350 KSS MkII on the road and a 200cc Valiant, which is almost ready to run. I also have a long term project on the go to build a KTT MkVIII replica (although it will be more of a "look alike" than replica).

What have you got?

SP2 for £3k!!
Sounds like a good deal to me. You'd be safe with a loan against that.

Just got back from 2 weeks in Tenerife.

Couple of days rain, but temperature still around 23 degC (even in the rain).

Brilliant

I made some manual tensioners for my Storm. I first set them up too tight. Whilst they seemed fine with the engine cold, once it got warm the cylinder/head expansion tightened up the chain so much that it hardly produced any power. I slackened the CCTs right off until I could hear it slap a bit and ...