What have you tinkered with today?

[Grant66]

Modified the Oxford grips to work from the built-in controller without paying Yamaha an obscene about of money for the privilege.

Oxford grips £70 + £2.50 for the connectors.
Yamaha wanted £210



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[garynortheast]

My daughter Eleri recently bought a 1921 Singer hand crank machine from a charity shop, in a generally lovely, and working condition. However the wooden handle was held on with a really nasty ill-fitting bolt and a nut with the wrong thread. It should be held on with a steel pin with a flat head and peined over at the arm end.

I decided to do something about it. A four inch nail cut to length, three small washers, and some time spent with a file, and a small ball pein hammer did the job.

I'm quite pleased with the result.





I just need to clean and oil all the bushes and bearings now.

[Craig380]

Nice work, Gary!

[garynortheast]

Thanks Craig. It's very satisfying to have it sorted.

[garynortheast]

Odds and ends: started the bike and checked the charging rate, then checked chain tension and tyre pressures ahead of a trip to Wolverhampton on Monday for the funeral of an old friend.

[Craig380]

Sorry to hear about your friend, Gary.

[SV650rules]

Sorry about your mate Gary, good mates are hard to come by, but if you are going to Wolverhampton take your biggest lock and chain.

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by SV650rules

Sorry about your mate Gary, good mates are hard to come by, but if you are going to Wolverhampton take your biggest lock and chain.

I know Wolverhampton fairly well. If I was going into the city itself I probably wouldn't take the bike, but the service is on a green burial site outside of W'ton so should be fairly safe.

[SV650rules]

That would be Bushbury Crem ? Yeah, quite secure and far out of town.

[garynortheast]

No, Wrottesley Park.