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I S T H ’ S N T H 36 THIS M O E R MONTH’S C O V COVER BIKE I K E The quite, quite B E stunning motorcycle PA G E E GENERAL ENQUIRIES S 3 6 you see here in front Jazz Publishing, 1 Marcher Court, of you, ladies and Sealand Road, Chester, CH1 6BS, UK. gentlemen, is living ☎ 01244 881888 eMail: [email protected] proof that you don’t web: www.100-biker.co.uk or have to spend gazillions www.jazzpublishing.co.uk of pounds to build one EDITOR of the best custom bikes Nik (Crib) Samson in the land. ☎ 07719 679078 [email protected]

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EDITORIAL

17 FARMYARD “Go on. You’ll enjoy it!” Words of advice to one of my neighbours, newly arrived to motorcycling with a licence still damp and a Super Dream with barely 20 miles T HIS MONT under its wheels since he rebuilt it. H’S F E A T U R E D E V E N T S E E P AGE 17 In these enlightened days of the 21st century, you’d’ve thought that that the old spectre of discrimination against people on motorbikes would’ve long been a thing of the past, wouldn’t you? Well, it isn’t—it’s alive and well in Scotland A few years ago I was meandering me way up through the Highlands on the way to the Wildcat Rally and, having got utterly drowned (and caught, passed and left by a cement mixer truck… with the drum going round) going up the side of Loch Ness, decided to stop and call it a day for the day in Inverness. I was thinking about UFF a hot shower, dry clothes and a cold HER ST beer (in that order too) as I pottered E’S OT through the town, keeping an eye out IS ISSU for B&Bs with vacancies. Three times TH I pulled over when I saw signs and 68 EVENTS three times, by the time I’d walked The most comprehensive events listing around! up to the door, the sign had changed from ‘Vacancy’ to ‘No Vacancy’. Really? 75 BIKER HAUNTS Three B&Bs in a row all filled their last Pubs, cafes and clubs for you to visit. room in such a short time? It’s possible, of course, but I doubt it… 76 BUFFOONERY Then a few weeks ago as me and a The best (and rudest) jokes page in any magazine! mate were making our way up to Skye for an event, we got to Mallaig to get 78 ROGUES GALLERY the ferry across, and once again, set Your life in pictures. about trying to get somewhere to kip prior to finding food and a glass 80 BIKEJUMBLE or two of something foaming. Now I Buy or sell bikes and bits… for free! know it was a Friday night in August 7 8 and so the number of places available 82 TAIL PIECE would be few and far between, but 8 NEWS Our regular column from the legendary you can normally find somewhere. The latest from the world of biking. Rick Hulse! We had a trot round town to no avail (particularly unhelpful they were too 10 PRODUCTS in Mallaig, unlike almost everywhere Tasty stuff to spend yer wonga on! else in Scotland I’ve been), and so we 75 looked on the Late Rooms website and BIKER GEAR 12 found a place that had a twin left. We Winter’s on its way—get yourself some got back on our bikes, rode over to it waterproof boots to face it in! and, indeed, spotted a ‘Vacancy’ sign in the window. “Woohoo,” we thought, BULGING SACK 14 “thank ferk for that.” But, by the time Your letters, written by you. we’d turned around and pulled up SHEDHEAD outside, the ‘Vacancy’ sign had gone, 45 replaced with a ‘No Vacancy’ one. Now, How to make a tube-bender on the cheap. again, I can understand this happening; 65 MAG CAMPAIGNS they could’ve taken a phone booking or something, but five minutes later, The latest news from the world of riders’ rights. after a last fruitless look around town, 66 BIKER INSIDER we passed the place again to see the ‘Vacancy’ sign back out again… tossers. Our in-depth look at one of the leading figures Nik of the industry.

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KUSTOM KULTURE DESIGN Kustom Kulture Design would like you to know about their huge range of Wall Art There are over 400 designs, both bikes and also classic cars and hot rods too, and sizes are up to seven feet! Prices vary from £15–£29.50 (plus shipping), and as they are die-cut from signwriting vinyl they are perfect for vehicle graphics as well as home or office use. They also do a huge range of other graphics too, including tank decals. Check them out at their website at www.kustomkulturedesign.co.uk.

RENT A RAMP Rent A Ramp is a new venture in Darlington that provides workshop space and tools for those who don’t have anywhere of their own to work on their vehicles, be it a car, a bike or even a caravan A basic bay for a bike will cost just £5 an hour or £8.50 if you want a back-saving bike lift, and tool hire is just £6 an hour and will cover their whole range of spanners, etc. Based at the Old Service Station at Sadberge, you can find out more by ringing 01325 337005 or by going to their website at www.rentarampdiyworkshop.com.

NEW TRIUMPHS FOR 2014

Triumph, the UK’s top selling brand with frame and cycle parts finished in this of 500cc plus motorcycles, has gone darkest of hues too. NEW SEALEY CATALOGUE ‘back to the future’ with its Bonnevilles, The Thruxton, inspired by the café racers The new edition of The Tool Catalogue, a Thruxton and Scrambler models, by of the ’60s, oozes retro racing style, and must-have reference for any enthusiast, developing eye-catching new colour for 2014 gets new megaphone silencers mechanic or tradesman, is out now schemes, improved tonal characteristics for an even more liberated sound, new More comprehensive than ever before, and an even better riding experience for engine details, a chrome chain guard, and a the publication contains 7,600 products its legendary classics range colour-matched fly screen, with centre stripe across 932 pages, including 1,150 new lines. The Bonneville gets new silencers, new tank detail. It’s available in Phantom Black and There is a wide range of motorcycle tools badges, new engine details, a new seat, Brooklands Green. and equipment, including new storage a new grab rail and a choice of Phantom The Scrambler also gets the ‘back to shelters, covers with solar panel pockets Black, Lunar Silver or Crystal White/ black’ treatment on lost of components and (to enable battery charging while the cover Sapphire Blue colours. And the Bonneville also a new seat, and a clear anodised bash is fitted), wheel bearing removal kits, fork T100 gets new ’pipes, engine detailing, a plate. It’s available in two brand new colour spring compressors, brake bleeders, chain chrome grab rail and chainguard, and as a schemes; Matt Pacific Blue and Lunar Silver/ alignment tools, and nod to its ’60s heritage, the new T100 has Diablo Red. stands to name but a few. a new Crystal White and Aurum Gold paint All the new models are available now, and To receive a copy scheme, inspired by the 1964 Bonneville, prices start at £6,549 OTR for the Bonneville visit your local Sealey with the stylised colour split continuing and £7,349 OTR for the T100 (Black £7,149), stockist or request one across the front and rear mudguards. It Thruxton and Scrambler. Eyeball them, and via the website at www. also comes in a mean and moody black the full range, at www.triumph.co.uk. sealey.co.uk.

8 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk SPADA LOTTERY The best things in life aren’t often free, but with the new Spada Clothing Lottery they suddenly could be; it’s a free online lottery that offers a great opportunity to win a range of Spada goodies, including www.way2 speed.com helmets, boots, jackets and much more Interesting website Better still, taking part doesn’t mean with some amazing queuing for half an hour at the custom bikes. newsagents to get your ticket; all you www.chicacustom have to do is visit www.spadaclothing. cycles.com co.uk to fill in a simple form and you’ll Stunning instantly be in it to win it! Winners will be motorcycles built announced on their by an unspeakably cool bloke. Facebook page. www.motorcycling- That web address romania.co.uk again—www. Motorcycle touring spadaclothing.co.uk. holidays in Romania. Wheelie Good Bike Show The third annual Wheelie Good Bike Show took place in Newton Stewart in Dumfries & Galloway on Sunday August 4

Organised by the Rotary Club of Newton Stewart, it’s held to raise money for local charities and Riders for Health. O ver 130 bikes and trikes took part in the ride-in from New Galloway, which was led by road-racing legend, Ian Simpson, and some THE BRUTE 250 bikes parked in the town’s main street, leading to a carnival Casarva Custom Conversions have developed a new bolt-on trike atmosphere. The organisers hope to build on the success of this kit as part of their range year’s event, making it Scotland’s largest street gathering. The new kit, dubbed ‘The Brute’, has been developed to cater for For more info on the event, go to their website at www.wgbs.org. those wanting to convert their bike to a trike where the donor bike is a heavier, less svelte machine and is made from larger tube. Using larger diameter tube not only increases the load-bearing strength, but looks the part blending in with the manufacturers’ chassis constructed of similar size tube. S E E P A G E 7 7 Casarva have seen a strong demand for The Brute kits, which start FOR MOREDET AILS at £1,399, and the new addition boosts the range of kits available from ON THE RADIO! them that can be configured to convert shaft, chain and belt drive DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION bikes. To see Casarva in action, go to their Facebook page where you The 100% Biker can see current and past builds for inspiration or www.casarva.co.uk. NOW AVAILABLE! show on BikerFM is now one of their top shows! Point your Internet browsers towards The Circus of Horrors www.bikerfm.co.uk on Thursday nights from 10pm for the The Circus of Horrors is about to begin a massive two-fold tour to run 100% Biker radio between October and March show—two hours Firstly, they’re going to running a series of performances at The Lyric of good rock music theatre in London’s West End (the first time a circus has appeared in and classic punk, a West End theatre for 100 years), and also a huge British tour, taking the latest bike in around 100 venues in pretty well all of the UK’s major cities from news and gossip, Aberdeen to Truro. and a light-hearted The latest incarnation ‘London after Midnight’ is inspired by the film of look at the weirder the same name, and is set in plague-ridden London and climaxes with end of the news. the Great Fire of 1666. The story twists and turns with grisly murders So, that Web and sensational shocks—interwoven with some of the greatest and address again most bizarre circus acts on earth; sword swallowers, knife throwers, www.bikefm.co.uk, daredevil balancing acts, astounding aerialists, demon dwarfs, hair Thursday nights hanging beauties, sinister sisters, and much more—and performed by from 10pm. an almighty cast with a forked tongue firmly in each cheek and the devil driver rock ‘n’ roll of Dr Haze & The Interceptors from Hell. For more info on both the London gigs and the British tour go to their website at www.circusofhorrors.co.uk.

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ACE CAFE A 75TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL Think of black leather jackets, quiffs, sideburns and rockers and the Ace Cafe is at the heart of defining UK motorcycle culture This glorious 132-page bookazine celebrates 75 years of Britain’s most historic motorcycle meeting place; from high-speed thrills to the birth of an entire culture, the Ace Cafe bookazine takes us from the ton-up boys getting their speed kicks on the road, the Mods versus Rockers, right to the present day with the motorbikes and people that are keeping the Ace Cafe legend alive today. It’s a must read for all! Available at the Cafe or online at www.acecafeshop.com for £6.99. EXTREMITIES SILK CLOTHING Outdoor specialist Extremities is encouraging motorbike enthusiasts to reap the benefits of its range of silk clothing accessories, which are perfect for base layers As a natural fabric, silk holds many properties. It is hypoallergenic and has natural temperature regulating properties, making it suitable to wear in all climates, and its S thermostatic properties and high absorbency make it an e a l o f ideal companion for motorcyclists, particularly as a base layer in winter. Their silk balaclava (£20) can easily be worn under A p p helmets and offers a soft and comfortable fit, while the r o v a l balaclava style provides more warmth than a standard buff. And silk gloves (£12) also make great liners, as the lightweight fabric provides warmth while the close fit allows for flexible movement underneath heavier gloves. For more information on Extremities products or to buy BURLY APEHANGER online visit www.extremities.co.uk. CABLE KITS Love the look of a set of apes OXFORD CHATTERBOX DUO on a Softail and Dyna, but hate The new Chatterbox Duo is the latest bike to bike wireless intercom that comes equipped with sorting out which cables and S e a l o f brake line to use? Burly have Bluetooth technology, and fits any helmet allowing designed specific kits for the rider-to-passenger or bike-to-bike communication late model Dynas and Softails, A up to 100 yards p p r o v a l designed for 12-inch, 14-inch, 16- It also allows you to stream audio signal from any inch and 18-inch apes source that already comes equipped with Bluetooth The kits include extended throttle (mobile phones, MP3 players, GPS devices and radar cables, extended clutch cable, detectors), and comes with a noise reducing Hi-Fi extended brake line and even stereo headset and choice of two microphones for wiring harness extensions specific open or full-face helmets. to HDLAN (H-D Local Area Each unit costs £99.99 from anywhere that stocks Network), and all instructions. the Oxford range—check out www.oxprod.com for They fit 2011-2013 FX and FL your nearest stockist. Softails, 2012-2013 FXD Dyna models (except Fatbob), and can be got from anywhere that stocks the MAG Europe range or www.mageurope.net.

TWISTY RIDE IPHONE HOLDER Currently available for iPhone 3G and 4 models, the waterproof Twisty Ride case has a recommended retail price of £69.99 and is now available in all good motorcycle shops The case is waterproof and windproof, uses a quick release mounting systems, has a dedicated space for a battery charger, and has a padded insert to help reduce the vibration and shock to your phone. Get yours from www.twistyride.com.

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Dear 100% Biker, Thanks again for sorting out the photo for Dick from the Popham Mega-Meet’s retirement party; here’s a photo of Dick Dear 100% Biker, receiving it from us. He loved it, but said Not sure if this is of interest, but I had it wouldve been better if Jo, the model, an interesting, but scary, chat with an had given it to him instead of me as I’m insurer yesterday. an ugly bugger! I was asked if I had a B1A category on Yep I’m going to miss him. my licence, as without it I couldn’t ride Cheers! my beloved trike. I informed them I had a Gorbz B1 and an A, but according to the DVLA Ps. I should’ve replied “ I’d rather have website there’s no such thing as a B1A. seen Jo sat on that Manx Norton than After consulting a colleague, he came you,” shouldn’t I? back to say my licence was okay, but it makes me wonder how many people have been told they can no longer ride in error! Hoping I’m right, there is no such thing Dear 100% Biker, as a B1A, is there? Due to falling numbers, caused by both Stuart Rochford the weather and the sate of people’s finances, sadly the Jugsters MCC have decided to call a halt to our Frozen Bladder Rally. Thanks to the lovely We all had nine years out of an event people at Oxford that really started as a jo ke (camping in Products (www. -9 degrees… very funny, ha ha), and the oxprod.com or 01993 club would like to thank all you lunatics 862300), the best who made this the special event it was. Dear 100% Biker, letter each month Our April rally, the Bo sted Bladder, is Last weekend I went to a s mall bike will win one of their cool new Box BX-1 not affected and will continue as usual. and trike show. This was run by the helmets. The BX-1 is their latest full face Once again a special thanks to all who S.L.U.T.S and was at a brilliant venue; it supported us. had everything—good food, good beer, lid and has been designed to a very Tapeworm Tim, good music, good people, and the weird high specification. It has a lightweight Jugsters MCC and wonderful! synthetic shell, a quick-release visor, a My trike was entered in the show removable lining and two ventilation Sorry to hear it… N. and as always do it won a trophy; Best points to both duct air in to cool your Rat! I was delighted, over the moon! I sweaty bonce, and also whisk away the Dear 100% Biker, don’t consider my trike a rat as I think hot air too. It’s been awarded four stars Jurassic Coast 8; thank you to Satan it’s got too many shiny bits, but it made in the latest SHARP safety tests, and it Slaves MC Dorset for inviting us to join me think; what about all the trikes that comes in a variety of colours – plain black, in with this event. The weather was don’t have show-winning paint jobs and plain matt black, plain silver or plain white great, as we had hoped, and good fun loads of chrome? and some very funky SCOPE graphic was had by all. Why not have a new class at shows colours too—and would set you back We got quite a few signatures for our and rallies and call it ‘Just a Trike’? We £49.99 if you had to buy one, but, as I campaigns and we auctioned a paddock put them in shows and we know we ain’t said each month one lucky so-and-so will jacket with comical auction banter gonna win, but we do it anyway! I am get one free, gratis and for nowt. provided by our Political Officer, Danny. so proud of me and my old Ford trike; Thank you also to Geoff Wheelan who having my photo taken with it, was only was on the CMA stand next to us for the second time in 18 years of triking! It helping to erect the ED MAG Fortress of was, and still is, a World Cup feeling and Solitude (aka the gazebo) as Danny was I’d like all the other rats out there get the woefully inadequate! Well that’s what our chance to feel the same way as me! Treasurer, Evi, says anyway! Big Al Trog, East Dorset MAG Trike-riding old git!

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BIKE FEATURE SUZUKI GSX-R 750 CARBON CHOP

WORDS: MARTIN HOWARTH PICS: SIMON EVERETT I’ve been riding 20-something years and in that time I’ve owned dozens of sports bikes, but I had always hankered after something one-off; a café racer, a streetfighter, something unusual

22 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk hen about three years ago, with is chrome springs. I have a while killing time on eBay, I mate, Paul, whose business, Zero stumbled across a hardtailed Limits Carbon Fibre, specialises in T Suzuki GS550 with a GSX-R supplying carbon fibre car and bike 750 engine and Yamaha R1 bodywork, but he also provides a front end. I could see the potential bespoke service where he can have in it and as it only had 14 minutes almost anything remanufactured in left on the auction, I bought it. Its carbon fibre too. The tank and rear silhouette was very similar to how it mudguard were handed over to him looks now, but there isn’t much that and he sent them off to his factory in I haven’t altered or replaced. the Far East to have them wrapped It came with a pearlescent purple in the finest quality Japanese 3mm paint job, a race bike exhaust end 2k twill weave carbon fibre. I opted can, wide chrome flyer ’bars, and to wrap the steel items rather than chromed Bates headlight, and simply have them reproduced in although still quite cool, it just didn’t carbon for two simple reasons; work aesthetically (and pearlescent strength and longevity. Petrol eats purple and chrome really isn’t me!), carbon fibre, you see; the pure but despite the styling mismatch carbon fibre fuel tanks used by race I ran the bike for a year whilst the teams are replaced every year or plans for its metamorphosis took so, but I wanted mine to last a lot shape in my head. longer than that! As a fan of sports bikes, and Zero Limits also supplied the given the chop’s sports bike matching front mudguard to finish donors, I thought I’d create a off the look. bridge between the two styles. Off While the bodywork was off came the skinny chrome ’bars, the on its travels I set about the rest of Bates, and the brown leather seat the bike. I had Raw Steel (www. IT CAME WITH A PEARLESCENT PURPLE PAINT JOB, A RACE BIKE EXHAUST END CAN, WIDE CHROME FLYER ’BARS, AND CHROMED BATES HEADLIGHT, AND ALTHOUGH STILL QUITE COOL, IT JUST DIDN’T WORK AESTHETICALLY

rawsteelfabrications.co.uk) make me a set of very wide one-inch ’bars, which I cut to length and had powdercoated. I fitted an internal throttle and routed all the cables and hoses inside to give the clean and uncluttered look (I tried an internal clutch too, but there was just too much force required to operate a cable clutch and the internal twist mechanism just wasn’t up to the job). A Hayabusa master-cylinder was sourced and fitted along with Goodridge braided hoses, and to eliminate the gap where the switchgear would normally reside,

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I knocked up some bespoke length grips out of aluminium on the APPARENTLY THE MOTOR HAS BEEN father-in-law’s lathe, along with SLIGHTLY TWEAKED AND, GIVEN ITS various spacers required during the rebuild. eBay came up trumps PROPENSITY TO LIFT THE FRONT for the headlight, the shocks for the seat, and he race bike fuel filler. UNDER HEAVY ACCELERATION, I plus all the components I needed to HAVE NO REASON TO DOUBT IT remake the wiring loom and make the remote starter. I’m really pleased with the way it’s The race can on the exhaust turned out, but regret that I didn’t looked so out of place that I just build it from scratch myself. I’ll give had to bin it. I knocked up a credit where it’s due; whoever had brushed stainless steel end cap the idea of using an outboard motor Engine: and an internal baffle to help the propeller housing for the rear light 1986 Suzuki GSX-R 750, race cams, bike fuel correctly as running the needs a pat on the back, and the Mikuni flatslide carbs, K&N stainless titanium exhaust without any form titanium exhaust is a work of art, as cone air-filters, unknown one-off titanium 4-1 exhaust with one-off of baffle sounded good, but it ran is the frame. internal baffle & brushed stainless end rough as a badger’s bum. With As with all custom bikes, it isn’t cap by owner, offset front sprocket the baffle fitted it still howls like finished; the oil cooler could do with Frame: a demon, but allows the engine to being replaced with a smaller item, 1981 Suzuki GS550, professionally do its job. Apparently the motor and I want to change the yokes hardtailed, Yamaha R1 foot-rests/ controls/ hangers has been slightly tweaked, and for billet ones, and fit longer fork Sharp End: given its propensity to lift the front stanchions to give me a slightly Yamaha R1 wheel/ discs/ calipers/ under heavy acceleration, I have longer rake and improved ground forks/ bottom yoke, Lucas Racing no reason to doubt it. clearance. Over the winter I plan to top yoke, Goodridge braided stainless brake lines, one-off one-inch bars with What’s it like to ride? A strip it down and smooth the welds internal cables/ hoses/ throttle, Suzuki complete hoot; it’s comfier than on the frame, re-powdercoat it, and Hayabusa master cylinders, one-off it looks, it goes like a sports bike I’m sure the engine would love an grips by owner, Vapor multi-function and the handling is surprising overhaul and re-paint too. p digital speedo unit capable once you adapt to its… Sharp End: Yamaha R1 wheel/ disc, Suzuki erm… ‘characteristics’. I just need GSX-R caliper, Brembo master- to sort out the 120mph-plus speed cylinder, one-off steel torque arm, wobble and it’ll be perfect. It aftermarket rear sprocket draws admiration from all aspects Bodywork: Carbon fibre Yamaha R1 front of the biking community, from the mudguard, metal fuel tank clad in betassled chrome cruiser types 3mm thick 2k twill weave carbon fibre. to the sport bike power rangers; aluminium racing fuel cap, leather seat even non-riding members of sprung with pushbike suspension units, one-off steel rear mudguard clad in society ask about it. 3mm thick 2k twill weave carbon fibre, one-off steel electrics/ battery box Electrics: One-off loom with remote start by owner, unknown headlight with idiot lights by owner, modified outboard motor prop housing as rear light with 1950s Lucas glass lens, horn switch on ’bars, rest on battery box, some components in rear third of tank Paint: None Powdercoating: Frame and ’bars by Stamford Blast Cleaning Engineering: Grips, various other spacers etc by owner Thanks To: “Paul at Zero Limits Carbon Fibre (01778 422722) for carbon work; Karl at Stamford Blast Cleaning (01780 0479192) for powdercoating; the girlfriend’s dad for letting me loose on his lathe; my girlfriend Rachel and my sons Mason and Ashton for tolerating my obsession and having a dining room full of motorbikes and tools; and all my fellow members of Tigers MCC for listening to me prattle on about the build…”

24 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk Please mention 100% Biker when responding to adverts. BIKE FEATURE TRIUMPH T140 BONNIE WASH ‘N’ GO Nige Bamber and Triumphs; they’ve been synonymous for what seems like forever… WORDS & PICS: ODGIE f this was a poncy sports bike you’ve done for the last 40 years mag, Nige would be labelled or so. Smart. Unusually, Nige ‘unreconstructed’ for not didn’t build this Bonnie from Imoving with the times and scratch. It was started by his zipping himself into day-glo mate Des, who’d done a fair bit of leathers nowadays and riding the work; not just in getting the slowly to a local biker haunt every stance and look set, but also doing Sunday morning with his mates most of the fabrication as well, before bragging about how fast before then zooming off to New they all went… Zealand. Nige took over the build, But this is 100% Biker and but is keen to give credit to Des for the real world, so Nige actually all the styling, “All I did was turn displays that effortless cool it into a functioning motorcycle” that only comes when the long he says modestly. The engine hair and even longer beard are features Nige’s usual showing more than a smattering trademarks; a careful of grey, and you’re still building rebuild utilising a dead groovy custom bikes and Morgo oil-pump, hammering them all over the Boyer ignition, country on a regular basis like Devimead

26 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk needle-roller pressure in their wisdom used different plate, PSP hydraulic clutch hub halves front and rear, and conversion and Norman Hyde nothing mates up. Sigh. Shaking oil cooler, although this time his head at the incomprehensible he used an oil-filter extension factory reasoning, Nige turned up on the seat post rather than an his own alloy spacer for the front… external spin-on filter. You probably also won’t have The oil-in-frame Bonnie chassis noticed that the engine has been is a decent bit of kit, but it always moved 5mm to the left, to give a suffers from a high seat height. sensible chain clearance with the Dropping the seat rails two inches, wider 16-inch rear tyre. For the front and extending the swingarm by and bottom engine mounts, that the same amount, transforms the simply involves different spacers, sURe, the DisCs ARe shoWiNg RUst, bUt DoN’t let thAt Fool YoU iNto thiNKiNg it’s beCAUse oF lACK oF Use—CAst-iRoN DisCs CAN Do thAt bY the AFteRNooN iF it RAiNs iN the MoRNiNg riding position, which is evident as but for the rear it means cutting soon as you swing a leg over it—it and re-welding the plates, taking just feels far more planted than the dog-leg out of the right one, and a stock Bonnie. The swingarm adding a dog-leg to the left one. doesn’t have any parallel sections, Did you also spot that the tank so extending it also makes it wider, has been modified; the front lifted and although you can’t tell just by a couple of inches or so on new looking, to keep the rear shocks mounts and the resulting gap filled upright, the upper mounts were in? Or the neat Magura handlebar correspondingly moved out levers? Or the rose-jointed rear during the lowering process. torque arm? Or the flush pop- You will have noticed the up filler cap transposed into the wider alloy yokes, courtesy original Triumph tank, along of Blod, to accommodate with the cutsey little balance pipe the fat front tyre, but you welded in at the rear? Details, may not have spotted the wider front hub. Late- model Triumph hubs are a two-piece affair, or at the rear a three-piece jobbie with a spacer ring in the middle. No problem, use a rear spacer in the front and the hub fills the forks properly, rather than having to use spacers on the spindle… except when you try it, you discover that Triumph

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it’s eviDeNt As sooN As YoU sWiNg A leg oveR it—it JUst Feels FAR MoRe PlANteD thAN A stoCK boNNie

details, details… the shape of the rear rack follows the unique design of the tank rack originally fitted to much earlier Triumphs, and hours of work went into extending the front TT exhaust pipes with hand-bent and welded stainless tubing to bring the two high-level Engine: exits out to the offside. And then Triumph T140 Bonneville, fully rebuilt, there’s the NCC diamond cut into Morgo oil-pump, Boyer ignition, Devimead needle-roller clutch pressure the baffle plates that you can’t even plate, PSP hydraulic clutch conversion, see unless you peer down into the Norman Hyde oil cooler, Mikuni reverse-cone megaphone silencers. cases, the head, barrel and rocker carbs, TT-style downpipes, stainless So we’ve set the style, we’ve boxes, the wheel rims, hubs, yokes extensions, reverse cone megaphones Frame: made it rideable, and we’ve made and fork sliders. No oxidised alloy, Triumph T140 Bonneville OIF, seat it functional; now we’re about to or hours of polishing needed here. rails lowered, shortened sub-frame, make it user-friendly. All the alloy With stainless fittings and mile- extended swingarm, modified work is powdercoated; again that deep paintwork, it’s about as wash engine mounts was Des’ idea and doing, not just in ‘n’ go as you can get. Sure, the discs Sharp End: Modified stock wheel/ brakes/ forks, the choice and execution, but even are showing rust, but don’t let that wide alloy yokes, Western style hi- going to the extent of having the fool you into thinking it’s because rise handlebars powder for the silver-grey specially of lack of use—cast-iron discs can Blunt End: mixed. And when I say all the alloy do that by the afternoon if it rains Extended stock swingarm, Hagon shocks, stock wheel & brake work, I mean ALL the alloy work; in the morning. No, the bike gets Tinware: the engine crankcases and outer plenty of miles added to it, and not Short front mudguard, only has Nige made good use of stock tank with relocated the bike himself, but it’s been lent tap outlets, one-off seat, out as a shop bike (Nige works at cut-down rear mudguard Electrics: Will Burrows’ H-D shop in Inskip, Modified stock loom, just north of Preston) to customers Bates headlight, Sparto who’ve broken down, and been style rear light returned heaped with praise. And Paint: even though Will’d never sell his Very green Engineering: own Harley, he did let slip to me on Lots of one-off parts the quiet, if ever he did, Wash ‘N’ by owner Go would be the bike he’d want to replace it. Very high praise indeed. p

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FIRS TNA TION CLASSICS I spotted these two Indians at the Autumn Classic All American Weekend hosted by the Prescott Hill Climb; a great day out with many hot-rods competing. The bikes were aptly parked alongside the Wall of Death, and the owners were as interesting as their machines

WORDS & PICS: STEVE TAYLOR

eter has owned his 1941 Indian Scout 741 for nearly 60 years; a fact that I Pstruggle to get my head around. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I tend to get bored with my own toys after a year or two. I don’t know whether that means the bike is very good or Peter’s the type of chap who’s happy with what he has… maybe a bit of each. He’d ridden his bike up from Berkshire that morning, and he’d been to the Isle of Man earlier that year too; not bad for a 72-year-old bike and rider. This Indian was built under contract for the British Army in 1941, and for some reason the engine’s capacity was reduced from the usual civilian 750cc to just 500cc for the army. Peter has you see, had left him the princely since bored it out to 600cc, but sum of £25, a lot of money for a would need to stroke it to get back 15-year-old in 1955! He had to push to full size. The other difference it home as the engine was seized between the military and civilian solid from being stood, but under models was the increase in ground the supervision of his father, clearance on the army bikes; this he stripped and rebuilt it, soon was achieved with longer forks getting it running perfectly. and a different subframe. In those days he had to ride his Peter’s family were farmers in push bike eight miles to school, Norfolk and at the age of just 15 he which must have been incredibly bought the bike from a local scrap frustrating when he owned a 500cc man for, get this, £5. His aunt, motorbike, but at the age of 16 he passed his test after only two weeks HE HAD TO PUSH IT HOME AS THE of (legally) riding it on the road. He used it to go back and forth to ENGINE WAS SEIZED SOLID FROM college, but says that he had no end of trouble as the other students used BEING STOOD, BUT UNDER THE to mess about with it, playing with SUPERVISION OF HIS FATHER, HE the settings on the variable jet carb. The machine then underwent STRIPPED AND REBUILT IT a period—a long period—when

30 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk PETER’S SCOUT Original Year, Make & Model: 1941 Indian Scout 741 army spec 500cc Engine: 1941 Indian Scout 741 army spec, bored to 600cc Frame: 1941 Indian Scout 741 army spec (different subframe for better ground clearance) Sharp End: 1941 Indian Scout 741 army spec (longer forks for more ground clearance) Blunt End: 1941 Indian Scout 741 army spec Tinware: 1941 Indian Scout 741 army spec

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years and is as dedicated to the HE SAYS HE’S TOO OLD FOR THIS BIG OLD BEAST THESE marque as he is. The bike’s had a long and DAYS. IT DOESN’T GET LEFT IN THE GARAGE, THOUGH, colourful history; in his earlier, OH NO; HIS SON RIDES IT WHENEVER HE CAN more spirited, days he rode it so hard that it threw a rod it languished untouched in a Sports Scout which he rides all out of the crankcases… bloody garage until December 2010, over Europe as he says he’s too old hooligan! Luckily for him, his when, with the help of his for this big old beast these days. company repaired car and van friend William Davis (who he It doesn’t get left in the garage, gearboxes so through this he is part-owner of a glider with), though, oh no; his son rides it knew a good welding company; the poor old bike was pulled out whenever he can. Alpha Welding from Croydon, into the light of day (or garage Mike is a World War II veteran specialists in the Nuclear Energy anyway) and stripped, checked who served in the Royal Navy; business, so as you can imagine over, refurbished and bored to he signed up in 1943 at just 17, their work had to be top notch. 600cc. You may be wondering and says it was a different world While it was in pieces, he fitted a where he managed to get the then, none of these riots and new set of pistons too to get the parts for such a rare 60-year- lootings. He also went to the Isle performance back up to what old motorcycle? Well, they’re of Man, this time for the 100-year it should be, and apart from readily available from Germany celebration of Indian’s TT win another set and a rebore since of all places. when the bikes took not only first, then, it’s hardly needed any Mike and his 1933 Indian Four but second and third places too. major work at all. Not bad for an 1270 make both Peter and his The weekend before he was in 80-year bike, is it? bike seem like youngsters. Mike Wales with a sidecar fitted so that Thanks to the Demon Drome Wall is 88 years old and his bike is 80, he could take his wife, Sybil, too. of Death (www.demondrome.com) and he’s another who regularly She’s been the Secretary of the for letting us use the Demon Drome rides his machine. He also has a Indian Riders Club for the last 25 for a backdrop. p

32 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk MIKE’S FOUR Original Year, Make & Model: 1933 Indian Four 1270 Engine: 1933 Indian Four 1270, rebored Frame: 1933 Indian Four 1270 Sharp End: 1933 Indian Four 1270 Blunt End: 1933 Indian Four 1270 Tinware: 1933 Indian Four 1270

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BIKE FEATURE ARIEL 350 ARIEL FUSION The quite, quite stunning motorcycle you see here in front of you, ladies and gentlemen, is living proof that you don’t have to spend gazillions of pounds to build one of the best custom bikes in the land

WORDS: NIK PICS: ASA INFINITY STUDIOS MODEL: JADE

his is actually the third rotted in such a way that it was bike built by Matt almost like a piece of sculpture, Barnard that we’ve but the rear tyre still had air in featured in Biker; you may it!), and he doesn’t think it would T remember his very cool be an exaggeration to assume it’d gunmetal grey Intruder been untouched for something like chop from a few years back and 40 years. He saw me looking at it his orange GS500 hardtail too. and said with a smile, “I’ll build a This one, his 1952 Ariel NH350 chop out of that one day…” Red Hunter, was a garden Every time he walked past it ornament outside his house when he kept looking at the engine, I visited to photograph the two weighing up how it would look in bikes mentioned above; he’d found it leaning against a tree, buried under vegetation, during a garden clearance in May 2011. It was extensively corroded with holes in the frame, and the tinware had largely rusted away (the tank had

36 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk HE’D FOUND IT LEANING AGAINST A TREE, BURIED UNDER VEGETATION, DURING A GARDEN CLEARANCE the bike he had in his head, and of and liner, the head rebuilding, course, it was really only a matter and a complete new clutch, but of time before the project began. considering how bad it could’ve Surprisingly, given that it’d been that was getting off lightly. sat outside uncovered and Star Engineers in Chelmsford unprotected for longer than were given the job of reboring the some of our readers’ve been cylinder and sorting out the head, alive, the internal damage and Matt fitted a much newer and to the engine wasn’t as better carb from a Royal Enfield bad as you’d expect it to Bullet on a new one-off manifold. be. It’d need a new piston The magneto was reconditioned Z

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V E R C O E THE ORIGINAL LOWER RAILS, COMPLETE WITH B I K ENGINE AND GEARBOX MOUNTS, HAD SURVIVED FOUR DECADES OF NEGLECT BY BEING COATED IN LEAKED ENGINE OIL AND CHAIN GREASE

to provide sparks, the primary survived four decades of neglect by rebuilt and fitted with a nickel- being coated in leaked engine oil plated chain, and the Burman and chain grease. This would help GB gearbox given the once over, to align the engine and gearbox in and any worn parts replaced as the frame, you see, and make his life necessary. Last job motor-wise, a little easier. He also decided to tilt apart from cleaning it up and the engine forwards approximately detailing it, was the creation of the 15 degrees to give the bike a lower one-off stainless exhaust that so profile and a more sporty look. lovingly hugs the engine and exits Forgoing traditional spoked through a moped silencer that wheels, he plumped for a he found on the verge of the local pair of ultra-modern bypass and adapted to fit. With the engine shipshape and Bristol fashion (whatever the hell that means…), he turned his attention to the frame. As usual he planned to make it himself and envisaged a single downtube goose-neck affair— rigid of course—and planned to use the original lower rails, complete with engine and gearbox mounts, as they’d

38 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk five-spokes from a Yamaha YZF125R sports learner (the one that looks like a mini R1) and new old stock tyres sourced from eBay. Both were fitted with tiny but powerful AJP scooter calipers, and while the rear was shoe- horned in as is, the front needed to be matched up to the stock Ariel forks which took a bit of jiggery- pokery on Matt’s part. The result, though, with the original fork shrouds, yokes and he could get it, you see, wanting it speedo, looks just perfect, helped, to be the same as it would’ve been of course, by the fact that he’s when it left the factory 61 years colour-matched the aftermarket ago. And the lack of chrome, and headlight to the frame and the little brass details throughout, tinware. The bike has that look of just add to the ‘old bike’ look too. an old ’un about it, doesn’t it, even But we’re getting ahead of though it’s only been built a few ourselves, aren’t we? We haven’t months. Matt made a conscious finished talking about the Ariel’s decision to use a colour scheme construction yet. A D1 Bantam that was as close to the original as tank (that’s a BSA Bantam for our Z

the oNe-oFF stAiNless eXhAUst thAt so loviNglY hUgs the eNgiNe AND eXits thRoUgh A MoPeD sileNCeR thAt he FoUND oN the veRge oF the loCAl bYPAss

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younger readers) was pressed into service, along with a lawnmower petrol tank adapted for use as the oil tank. The seat is a Lycett replica Original Year, Make & Model: (Lycett were a famous bicycle and 1952 Ariel NH350 Red Hunter motorcycle saddle maker with a Engine: history dating back to 1893), and 1952 Ariel NH350 Red Hunter, rebuilt, new piston/ liner/ head/ valves, the rear mudguard came from an reconditioned magneto, Royal Enfield autojumble (as did the two tanks). Bullet carb, jetted to suit, one-off The rear light is a complete one-off; manifold, one-off stainless exhaust a combination of a mixer tap lever, with modified moped silencer, open primary with nickel plated chain, a lorry marker lens, and an LED Burman GB gearbox, new clutch light, and this ingenuity is extended basket and plates to the mirror—made from a door Frame: knob, a door handle, and a blind it’s AN iNsPiReD bleND oF the olD One-off single downtube gooseneck rigid by owner, original lower frame spot mirror. AND the NeW, the soRt oF thiNg rails, engine as stressed member Almost everything on the bike Sharp End: was made by Matt himself, and thAt highlY-PAiD MotoRCYCle Yamaha YZF125R wheel and disc, he wired it and painted it too, and Metzeler tyre, AJP scooter caliper, DesigNeRs WoUlD be PRoUD to original forks with shrouds, original did what little polishing he felt speedo and yokes, widened Ariel necessary. The finished machine, hAve iN theiR PoRtFolio ‘Heavyweight’ handelbars, one- he reports, is as low as he’d off steering damper/ handlebar planned, and as you’d imagine, blend of the old and the new, the clamps/ mirror quite slow, but he says, keeps up sort of thing that highly-paid Blunt End: Yamaha YZF125R wheel and disc, with modern traffic “provided you motorcycle designers would be Continental tyre, AJP scooter caliper keep off dual carriageways”. proud to have in their portfolio, Tinware: It’s also picked and the fact that it was done by BSA Bantam D1 fuel tank, lawnmower up awards at just one bloke, on his own, in a small petrol tank for oil tank, autojumble rear mudguard, Lycett replica seat about every event workshop, just goes to prove Electrics: it’s been to— something I’ve always said; the Total loss ignition system, 4.5-inch understandable as British custom bike scene is one of LED bullet headlight, one-off LED it is, as I said at the best, most innovative, and least rear light Paint: the beginning of blinkered in the world. Thanks, Satin black and claret by owner this article, quite, Matt, for confirming that. Polishing: quite stunning. One of the best custom Owner It’s an bikes in the UK? You’d Engineering: p Owner inspired better believe it! Thanks To: “Star Engineers (01245 440501) for rebore and head work; Tony for help and advice; Bob for enthusiasm and all those second opinions; the customer for the donation of what was once his father’s motorcycle; and the Ariel Owners Club spares department (it’s restored as original, honest!)…”

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SHEDHEAD IS OUR REGULAR LOOK AT ALL ASPECTS OF BIKE BUILDING, DONE BY OUR RESIDENT METAL- SHED HEAD WORKING GENIUS, BLACKJACK GOING ROUND THE BEND

f you’re going to alter, modify or build motorcycles, Isooner or later you’re going to need to bend some metal. Bending solid bits of metal isn’t all that difficult, but bending tube starts to present a few problems which are typified by handlebars and exhausts. The problem with exhausts is that you’re trying to bend thin wall tube through a large angle on a tight radius and it wants to collapse. For a set of handlebars you can use tube with a thicker wall, and the radius of the bends can be larger, but they also have

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to be precisely equal and in the unbolt from the car (you won’t correct plane. This is why a lot need the brake back plate) of custom exhausts are made (Fig.1). The point about these by welding pre-formed bends is that the whole of the hub and together, and also why we have T the drum are a single casting and and Z ’bars. quite stiff. There are lots of plans out You’ll need one for each there on the internet for DIY diameter of tube you want to benders, but you either have make a former for—and try and to buy or machine the formers find one without a step around for most of them, which doesn’t Fig.2 make them cheap. About eight A LOT OF CUSTOM years ago I wrote some article EXHAUSTS ARE MADE BY on chopping up a Z400, which was all a little pointless unless WELDING PREFORMED you had a way of bending tube. BENDS TOGETHER AND For most ‘traditional’ style stuff, being able to bend tubes of ALSO WHY WE HAVE T between 7/8-inch and 1¼-inch AND Z ’BARS in diameter is a useful range, and after a little bit of thought, I it. There’s some variation in came up with an idea. Originally brake sizes too, so look at a few I called it the Fiesta bender, but if you have the chance. Carefully it gets called a Blackjack bender measure the diameter of the quite a lot too. It goes like this… drum. Then cut out two ‘scythe’ Dig around under a Ford shaped pieces of quarter-inch Fiesta or Escort with rear drum plate so that the inner diameter is brakes, and you’ll find that the a tight fit on the drum; the ‘blade’ Fig.3 entire hub, drum and stub axle of the scythe is half of the tube’s Z

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IF YOU DECIDE TO MAKE FORMERS FOR OTHER SIZES OF inside diameter the same as the OD of the tube I wanted to bend, TUBE, THEN IT’S EASIER TO ALTER THE HEIGHT OF THE since I was making a former GUIDE THAN TO ALTER THE HEIGHT OF THE FORMER for 1-inch tube, I found some 1¼-inch tube with an 1/8-inch diameter in thickness, and there’s up with that of the first one, and wall thickness. The length of the a ‘handle’ on it as in (Fig.2) it’s clamped to the first one using former should be about a quarter I used a jigsaw to cut mine spacers that match the diameter the circumference of the largest out, cutting it a little over-large of the tube that the former is part of the former. Cut the tube and filing and sanding it to size. being made for (Fig.4). in half lengthways so that the Once I was happy that the two The bender is also going to piece you’re going to use is a full scythes were as good as I could need a frame and a guide for the semi-circle and doesn’t have a make them, I welded the first tube. I used some 2½-inch by weld seam (Fig.6). one to the drum taking care that 1¼-inch box section for the base The easiest way to get it was square to the stub axle of the frame and the upright that everything aligned is to line it by rotating the drum once the supports the former. After I’d all up on the base of the frame. I scythe was tacked in place and made a plate to mount the former used some ½-inch by 1-inch steel watching for vertical run out to the upright, I centralised bar to back the guide up with, (Fig.3). Once it’s welded, run a the former over the base and which is why it’s packed up on piece of the correct diameter tube measured the amount I needed to two pieces of ¼-inch plate in around the drum and make sure offset the upright. As it happened, Fig.7. The reasoning behind that that the tube will clear the weld, it was 1¼ inches and I had some is if you decide to make formers as any high spots will dent the box section that size, so I cut some for other sizes of tube, then it’s tube when you bend it. Grind packers and welded the upright to easier to alter the height of the down any high spots. one end of the base (Fig.5). guide than to alter the height of The second scythe is To make the guide I found the former, but you could just positioned so its ‘handle’ lines some thick wall tube that had an weld the guide to the base.

46 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk Fig.8

Fig.9 the eXtRA loNg Foot let Me PARK A CAR oN it to KeeP eveRYthiNg stAble, AND the bolt-oN hANDle MeANs thAt YoU CAN Move it RoUND FoR A seCoND ‘bite’ iF YoU WANt MoRe thAN 90 DegRees oF beND With everything welded in It quite happily bent one-inch position, I cut the ‘handles’ off OD 1/82 wall tube as was, but for the scythes in line with the axis thinner wall stuff, the groove in of the tube, and cut another piece the former was filled with P40 of the tube the guide was made fibre-glass bridging filler and from to act as the stop for the shaped with a piece of tube to tube (Fig.8). provide more support. The further away from the When I use it, I measure the point where the tube contacts amount the tube is pulled along the former the stop is, the easier the bed rather than the angle I’ve it is to bend the tube, but the bent it through, which makes ‘sausaging’ there will be on the it dead easy to produce two bends. It’s easier to move it closer identical bends. p Fig.10 than it is to move it further away, but having the mid-point of the stop about twice the diameter of the tube from the contact point with the former ought to be a good compromise—closer for thin wall stuff; further away for thick wall stuff. I cut a couple of feet for the base and welded those on, making the front one quite long and cut a bracket from some more of the ¼-inch plate to allow the handle to be bolted to the former (Fig.9). The extra long foot let me park a car on it to keep everything stable, and the bolt-on handle means that you can move it round for a second ‘bite’ if you want more than 90 degrees of bend (Fig.10).

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WORDS & PICS: STEVE TAYLOR

the PeRFeCt PART 5 beAst—bUilt!

This is the finale to our Trike Tech feature, and judging by the positive feedback we’ve had many of you have enjoyed reading about it as much as I’ve enjoyed writing/building it

f you’ve missed any of the was the first UK V-Max owner articles and would like to to have his bike mono shocked, read the full story of the build so between them they decided to Iin sequence, back issues are have a complete custom job. available from www.100-biker. They were both fans of the com/back-issues, and the build Attitude Customs/Exile Cycles started in issue 169. trikes so the first parts to buy were As previously mentioned, a bargain set of 15-inch Mickey Sheena decided that she wanted Thompsons from eBay; a trike isn’t a trike. This was due to the fact a proper trike without monster that she struggled to keep a large rear wheels, you see. Sheena capacity bike on its wheels and wanted a set of our split rims and didn’t want to downsize. Unlike to save a few quid, we used her most men, myself included (so original solid rear in the front and I’ve been told), Joff, Sheena’s other widened it to fit a sensible sized half, actually listened to what tyre (200). We chocked the frame she said, so instead of “Of course with blocks of timber to get the dear, yes love, whatever you think poppet”, he set the (three) wheels in motion and found her a ’98 Harley-Davidson Sportster to chop up. He didn’t stop there; he did all the research and legwork too. Who says romance is dead these days? Initially the plan was to simply buy a bolt-on swingarm conversion, but Joff wasn’t keen on either the look of them or the idea of the extra twisting forces on the swingarm pivot area created by this design. He doesn’t do things by halves either; Joff iNitiAllY the PlAN WAs to siMPlY bUY A bolt-oN sWiNgARM CoNveRsioN, bUt JoFF WAsN’t KeeN oN eitheR the looK oF theM oR the iDeA oF the eXtRA tWistiNg FoRCes oN the sWiNgARM Pivot AReA

48 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk correct ground clearance and then set the tyres in place to get the correct stance, and after a round trip from Essex and one happy new wheels with a smaller bolt Sheena later, we were ready to go. PCD so that the spinner covered The rear tyres were meant to them, and made the hubs with a be mounted on 12-inch rims so thread protruding through the it goes without saying that we wheel to fit the spinners; one left- had to stretch them out over hand thread and one right-hand. 14-inch wide rims. As always, Sheena decided that she wanted top quality rubberware looks at a solo seat as this trike was going it steeRs oNe-hANDeD At ANY sPeeD it’s best when it’s a good fit. We to be just for her enjoyment, but WithoUt shAKiNg its heAD; it’s finished the wheels then had a call it didn’t look right with the stock from Joff, “We’ve bought some tank. Si Harris at Attitude Customs AMAZiNg the DiFFeReNCe it CAN spinners for a ’50s MG, can you sent one of his and a trick oil tank MAKe bY gettiNg the tRAil Right make the wheels so that they look too for approval. They looked good, like they’re proper knock-offs but caused another problem; the She also wanted the trike to look and you can’t see the bolts?” The sub-frame mounting area was too like a hardtail, but still be a bolt-on, original MG wheels had splined big to fit the tunnel of the tank. We so we machined some tube joiners centres and splined hubs with a decided it’d be easier to cut this off for the top tube and subframe large thread to retain the wheel, the frame than modify the tank, so down tubes that fitted to the and the wheels could be fitted and Bill got the nine-inch grinder out swingarm area, and we utilised removed with just a hammer. To and a quarter-of-an-hour later the the swingarm pivot and gearbox get around the problem, we made tank was on. mounts for the rest as it was a very

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strong area. We jigged it up, bent he tooK it FoR the obligAtoRY up some tubes and mounted one of our own axles. The frame was 20–30-Mile thRAsh ARoUND Engine: 1998 Harley-Davidson 883 Sportster, raked at the headstock and the soUthAMPtoN, AND WAs stRAight oN re-jetted carb, Attitude Customs yokes raked too, resulting in the air-filter, one-off two-inch stainless perfect combination of looks and the PhoNe As sooN As he RetURNeD headers with Supertrapp cans handling. It steers one-handed sAYiNg, “it hANDles ReAllY Well, Frame: at any speed without shaking its 1998 Harley-Davidson 883 CAN’t believe it’s A bolt-oN Kit!” Sportster, ‘bolt-on’ trike rear end, head; it’s amazing the difference it stock foot-controls can make by getting the trail right. up to the plate. He and his crew Sharp End: A few niggles appeared; first was wired the bike, made an electrics Harley-Davidson rear wheel the tank (again)—the bars hit it box, got it running sweetly, and widened to 6.5-inch, 200 tyre, stock disc/ caliper/ forks/ master- when any sort of lock was needed. got the registration sorted out. He Taylormade Wheels are cylinder/ switchgear, one-off raked Joff came to the rescue here with took it for the obligatory 20–30- based in mid- yokes, HEL Performance brake the idea of curved risers. Sorted. mile thrash around Southampton, Wales and their lines, one-off ’bars The second was the shotgun including some high-speed phone number Blunt End: type silencers they’d supplied; motorway work, and was straight is 01597 Taylormade Wheels axle, modified 860692 or you Reliant diff, Taylormade Wheels there just was no room for them. on the phone as soon as he can contact 14x15-inch split-rim wheels with We changed them to stubby returned saying, “It handles really them through ’50s MG knock-off spinners, Suzuki Supertrapps from Demon Tweeks, well, can’t believe it’s a bolt-on kit!” their website Hayabusa wavy discs, Harley- with one mounted above the other. Praise indeed from the man at www. Davidson V-Rod four-pot calipers taylormade- Tinware: We fabricated the exhaust pipes who inspired Sheena to want one wheels.co.uk. Attitude Customs petrol tank and out of two-inch stainless tube and in the first place! p battery box, Biltwell solo seat pre-formed bends, then TIG- Electrics: welded it together as most one-off One-off loom by Attitude Customs, exhaust manufacturers do these Arlen Ness headlight, 1912 Aston Martin Lagonda running lights as days. Finally, Gav at GS Polishing rears, LED indicators made it look like an exhaust. Paint: We used Si Harris’ next door Gloss black by Russ & Jonny at RJS neighbours, Trestan Finishers, for Polishing: Yokes and exhaust by Gav at the powdercoating on the engine GS Polishing cases and wheel centres, and once Thanks To: it was rolling on its own wheels “Joff for inspiration, design and Joff and Sheena collected it with helping me through it/ordering the idea of completing the job parts; Steve and Bill at Taylormade Wheels; and Si Harris and crew at themselves. Unfortunately due to Attitude Customs (07758 241123)…” work commitments, they didn’t have time, so Si Harris stepped

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THERE’S ALWAYS ONE, ISN’ T THERE?

WORDS & PICS: HELENE PISSED & CONFUSED RALLY 21–23 June, The Sun & Anchor, Steeple, Essex Sometimes we forget how good it can be to step outside the bubble of our regular rallies. It’s far too easy to get stuck in our ways, and it’s good to try summat new

he Sun & Anchor in Steeple, the home of the Pissed & Confused MCC, isn’t easy to find, but it’s worth it. The last few miles were fun; whoever had designed the Troad obviously used cooked spaghetti and a spirograph. Cracking bit of tarmac! The pub was lovely, and there was camping in the field out the back with a stage and a bar set up at the bottom so are not to upset the locals too ZOMBIE OR much. It was all very pleasant; wandering the MESSY EA TER? campsite looking at bikes and chatting, sitting around on hay bales watching the bands, even MONSTER TRIKE TAKES UP dancing… by me. I blame the generosity of the man VALUABLE CAMPING SPACE... with the cider that didn’t taste alcoholic in any way, yet managed to convince me that not only could I dance, but I was good at it. We all have our favourite rallies, but if you want to try a new one (and a road the same shape as a drunken worm playing Twister) with really friendly people and a cracking breakfast in a nice little pub then may I suggest this one? p

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WORDS: SIMON SHAKESPEARE PICS: SIMON EVERETT It was inevitable that I’d end up with a GX650 eventually. This one came my way a dozen or more years ago in exchange for a knackered GPz streetfighter, and I fell in love with it immediately—the engine just seemed to ooze soul

54 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk y old french teacher The engine was first on the in the ’70s; a hippy operating table and as I’d already mate of my brother on rebuilt it some years before, I Ma communal farm in wasn’t too worried about stripping Germany in the ’80s; it down. Most of the internals Al at Notts Custom Cycles and were still quite serviceable, but I the Orange Whip drag race team; fitted new springs, seals, bearings and a bloke I met on a campsite in and gaskets. Then I boxed up my Yorkshire in the early ’90s—they precious crank and cam and sent all had one thing in common… it off to Holland for the rephasing. super-cool XS650s. This involves splitting the crank, I rode mine for a couple of rotating one side forward three years before rebuilding the engine notches on the main crank pin, completely (having met the oracle refitting and welding in position. that was Tony Hall at Halco The cam is then cut in half and Tuning) including crank bearings, rotated a corresponding amount. pistons, VM carbs and pipes. This cancels out as many of the Gradually, though, the sweet note primary and secondary forces of the engine began to fade behind created by pistons moving very fast a mist of dodgy leave-you-stranded up or down the bore, yet coming electrics, tired shocks, poor brakes, to a standstill at either end of the and wallowing handling. Slowly stroke, only to then accelerate back but surely, the XS sank to the back up to maximum velocity on the of the shed and began to blend with the dust and foliage lurking THE REPHASED ENGINE IS AN there. And it stayed there until last year when, having landed a small ABSOLUTE REVELATION; OODLES but pivotal tax return, I started browsing the XS forums and the OF STOMP, SMOOTH WITHOUT dreaded (fl)e(a)Bay. FEELING STERILE, AND AN I heard exotic tales of rephased engines that liberated power (and EXHAUST NOTE TO DIE FOR stopped the bike vibrating its way down the drive while on the side stand); mythical reports of bikes running without batteries and such like. A plan was hatched; the engine would be re-born as a 277 degree twin, and I would house it in a stiffened XS frame that’d trade its notorious tubular swingarm and twin shock combo for a more contemporary (and much better handling), monoshock/ box section ’arm/ fat rubber ensemble. I didn’t want a straight dirt-track- inspired style, though, I was after something more old/new fusion.

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next stroke. All of this necessitates a dedicated ignition set-up and a very pleasant chap in the US called Pamco Pete has been building such systems for a while now. After buttoning up the now painted and polished power plant Original Year, Make & Model: 1978 Yamaha XS 650SE I started to turn my thoughts Engine: towards electrics and engineering. 1978 Yamaha XS 650SE, stainless I realised that I’d have to draw up valves, heavier valve springs, light a one-off wiring diagram as well as starting to look promising. Having porting, iridium plugs, 277 degree physically rewiring the bike, but sloughed off all and sundry rephased cams, Mikuni VM34 carbs, pod air-filters, crank rephased to 277 having re-wired my GSX1100 from battery-related tyrannies, I was degree firing order, rebuilt clutch with scratch, I wasn’t too freaked by the granted a perfect space to mount heavy-duty springs, ‘overdrive’ 5th physical process, but drawing up an oil tank as a battery box. I had gear cog, PAMCO electronic ignition the wiring diagram did involve lots one lying around since building to suit 277 degree firing order, twin Green Monster coils, 1.5-inch Halco 2-2 of late nights and head-scratching. an old rigid Triumph chop, and ’pipes with reverse cone megaphone The engineering shenanigans it got cleaned out, topped and end cans, Heiden side-mounted oil involved much grinding and tailed, and filled with a reg/rec, cooler, permanent magnet alternator welding; some machining; a a blade fusebox and a bunch of with Honda VF500 stator/reg/reg & Yamaha RD 250 rotor, electric start sprinkling of drilling and filing; wiring. To mount it, I used a pair removed, battery replaced with Sparx a whole bunch of sweating/ of ally pre-unit Triumph engine capacitor, offset front sprocket grunting/ swearing; and plates which, turned upside Frame: industrial quantities of tea and down, where a good match for the 1978 Yamaha XS 650SE, headstock beer. FZR 600 front and back modified oil tank’s circumference. modified to take FZR stem and lower yoke, braced/ gusseted/ de-lugged, ends were successfully grafted It was starting to look like it might new monoshock mounts, modified onto the now reinforced XS frame all have been planned—I think it’s seat rails, Yamaha FZR600R rearsets and the final rolling chassis was called serendipity! on braced hangers Sharp End: 120/17 Bridgestone tyre, Yamaha FZR600R wheel/ brakes/ forks/ yokes i DiDN’t WANt A stRAight (machined bearing collar/spacer, top modified for handlebar mounts), HEL braided stainless brake lines, Renthal DiRt-tRACK iNsPiReD ’bars, Suzuki GSX-R master-cylinder, modified stock switchgear, stock stYle, thoUgh, i WAs controls, motocross grips, stock clocks with LED bulbs and modified brackets AFteR soMethiNg MoRe Blunt End: Yamaha FZR600R swinging arm/ olD/NeW FUsioN modified wheel/ brake/ master- cylinder/ torque arm, Suzuki GSX-R600 shock mated to FZR linkages, one-off sprocket, 160/60 17 Bridgestone tyre, modified stock battery box as rear light/seat mount Tinware: Yamaha FZR600R front mudguard, stock petrol tank, one-off fibreglass seat base upholstered in black vinyl ‘tuck and roll’ with fake suede piping, modified Yamaha SRX600 tail-piece, modified Yamaha FZR600 hugger/ chainguard, modified custom oil tank as battery box Electrics: One-off loom by owner, stock headlight with halogen bulb conversion, Triumph T595 LED rear light, aftermarket LED indicators Paint: Candy Orange with 2K clearcoat lacquer by Paint Munkey, Exeter Powdercoating: Revill Industrial Paint, Exeter Polishing: Owner Engineering: Sprocket carrier/rear hub machining/ all critical welding/PTFE swingarm bushes etc by Tony Martin at TMS, Crediton; head bearing collars/rear wheel spacers by Si Tomlinson

56 | 100% Biker | issue 173 | www.100-biker.co.uk “Tony Martin for engineering support and workshop space at critical moments; Jerry at Heiden Tuning in Holland for the re-phase and all engine parts; Stuart THE STEERING GEOMETRY IS SHARPER THAN Coote of Grove Upholstery THE ORIGINAL XS, AND COMBINED WITH THE for the seat; Julian at UPGRADED SUSPENSION AND MODERN RUBBER Paint Munkey; Pamco Pete for ignition and IT HANDLES ALMOST LIKE A MODERN BIKE! support; Hugh Punkskalar for So what’s the bike like overall? top of the prep’ and prime that PMA support Well it all worked straight off I’d already done (he prefers to and inspiration; (phew) and I am delighted with start with bare metal, and wasn’t Dom for bike the look. The rephased engine is too happy about it), and it now trailer and all-round an absolute revelation; oodles of looks like I may pay a price for good buddy stomp, smooth without feeling my stubborn pride as the primer duties; Marijke sterile, and an exhaust note to is beginning to bubble under the for tireless support and die for. The new charging system paint… bugger! The other issue is encouragement; seems to be doing its job well and, that, in spite of the intentionally the forum most importantly, it now starts aggressive riding stance of the community at XS650.com first kick! The steering geometry rearsets that I fashioned from for inspiration is sharper than the original XS, the FZR pegs, the riding position and boundless and combined with the upgraded throws too much weight onto my knowledge; and the late suspension and modern rubber it wrists—I can only manage about Tony Hall of handles almost like a modern bike! 15 mins before cramps set in. I am Halco Tuning There have been a couple of now returning the ’pegs to the for original inspiration and flies in the proverbial Chardonnay original (and considerably more support with though (or Stella, more likely); moderate) location… I’ll just have the first re- the superb paint job that Justin to ride the bike more aggressively build…” at Paint Munkey applied was on to compensate! pp

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AG, as you know, need for the ban, but obviously is there to defend they’ve gone for the cheaper Mour freedom to option of a blanket ban. ride our bikes MAG is, of course, doing wherever we see fit and to something about this ban; have the same rights as other a couple of weeks ago our road users. However, there Transport Policy Adviser, are times when you wish parts Dr. Leon Mannings, had a of the motorcycling scene second meeting with Brent would disappear up their own Council and the police. More exhaust pipes. meetings are to follow. Brent Maybe the few morons who Council doesn’t want to be enjoy racing down Rainsford seen as an anti-bike council… Road in London haven’t got but they’ll have to go a long the balls to try it on the track way to convince us otherwise. or, if the YouTube videos Let’s see what they come up are anything to go by (where with, eh? they’re all going really slowly), In other news, you may they’re scared that they’ll recall how this Government’s do themselves some serious notion of justice leaves a lot damage as they do fall off quite to be desired. Recently, the a lot; to date, according to the Attorney General, Dominic council, there have been 174 Grieve, announced that he crashes on that small stretch won’t be re-visiting the lenient of road. sentencing of Mark Walsh For those that don’t know who slammed on his brakes Mitch (or John already Brent Council on the M65 causing the death mangling my GT’s front end, Mitchell, to give instigated an 18-month of Peter Sarchet, who lost but, luckily, walking away him his proper experimental traffic order control of his bike trying to without a scratch after going name) has banning bikes on Rainsford stop behind him after his front over the handlebars. It all been a member Road in the Park Royal of MAG since brake locked. If you read the went to court and I won. 1999 and Industrial Estate after they Daily Mail’s website (well, There is a minimum speed was elected allegedly ran out of options. someone has to!), you’ll see all limit on the motorway—as any as National If you look at the council’s the numpty comments saying JCB driver would tell you who Chairman in Facebook page, they say that if you hit someone from has been stopped for driving April this year. He’s the they’re trying to do all they behind on the road, then it’s slowly—of 30mph unless in proud owner can, but banning motorcycles automatically your fault. Sorry heavy traffic. For a driver to of a Triumph doesn’t solve the problem. I’m folks, that’s bullshit and I’m slow down to 10mph so he Speed Triple, amazed by their justification actually living proof of that. can pull off at the junction which he rides everywhere, for the ban; ‘The police have Nine years ago I had a prang shows either a great degree and is a tried to disperse them, to ask going to work one morning of fuckwittery (as in he was member of them nicely to stop.’ Maybe if when a van driver, not travelling too fast and got to CAMRA who’d the police’d sent more than one observing the tailbacks ahead the junction too late) or he was love MAG to have the car and actually enforced the of him, panic braked. I ended malicious in his intent—not same number law, then there wouldn’t be a up going into the back of him, wanting the biker behind him. of members. The fact that Dominic Grieve Here’s hoping! doesn’t want to look into this matter further just shows MAYBE IF THE POLICE’D SENT MORE THAN ONE what utter contempt he and his fellow ministers have for CAR AND ACTUALLY ENFORCED THE LAW, THEN the average motorcyclist and THERE WOULDN’T BE A NEED FOR THE BAN for public sensibilities.

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he’s made a name for herself painting the bikes built by So-Low Choppers S and others from the region, and continues to turn out some beautiful artwork

AT WHAT AGE DID YOU GET INTO PAINTING? I was always interested in art over everything else from a very early age; and when it came time to decide what to do when I left school the obvious and only decision was to go to art college! I went to Ipswich Art College for four years and it was while I was there that I discovered airbrushes. I was already into bikes and had a little Triumph Tiger 90, and I began doing paintwork on friends’ bikes and also on denim and leather jackets too. When I left college it was a natural progression to start a business painting custom bikes and

I painted a bike (well, a scooter—the one you ran in the mag) in a scheme based on a Lynx deodorant can

I soon had a thriving business WHERE DO YOU FIND YOUR for about four years back in the INSPIRATION? WHO ARE ’80s which continued until my YOUR HEROES (BIKING OR son came along. OTHERWISE)? Then four years ago, after My inspiration comes from all bringing my son and daughter over the place, from bike shows up, I got the chance to get back to the colour of packaging in into painting when Clive at supermarkets; in fact, I painted So-Low Choppers offered me a a bike (well, a scooter—the one project bike he’d built to paint. you ran in the mag) in a scheme That was it—it all started again! based on a Lynx deodorant can.

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Dealing with customers and interpreting what they want is part of the service. As for heroes, well, I admire all the well-known airbrush artists— Piers Dowell especially—but one of my real heroes is Jason Fowler, owner of JLF Designs in Stanton, who paints crash helmets and is a brilliant artist in my eyes. I had the pleasure of working with for a while several years ago, a true inspiration!

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understand why most people head to see what was causing the may take it for granted that problem; it took a few seconds to a biker with disabilities may focus on the object under my head I have gained those disabilities and perhaps another second to as the result of a motorcycle recognise it. I remember thinking accident, but I am often surprised quite calmly ‘What the hell is my when other bikers leap to that foot doing there?’ Suddenly the same conclusion. gates to the world of pain opened poor bugger to get him off me. It In my case I had stopped off on and in the best traditions of later transpired that, in addition the way home from a job to use a fearless macho bikers… I passed to the dislocation, my shoulder telephone box in a shitty estate in out like a booted baby. had been split up the middle and north Manchester (it was 1991 and When I regained consciousness a sizeable piece of bone had been phone boxes were very common, my eldest brother, Jimi, was sheared off. The young doctor’s and mobile phones weren’t). leaning over me with grave attempt to relocate my shoulder After completing the call I concern. “Where the fuck are we without getting it x-rayed first stepped out of the phone box and Jimi?” I asked, oblivious to my had essentially been an exercise Bangbangfuckingbang! I found situation. “North Manchester in grinding three badly broken myself flying through the air and General, you’ve been in an bones together. When the nurse landing in a heap in the middle of accident,” he replied with tears told me that the poor bugger a busy road. Apparently a stolen in his eyes. “I put the smoke had been working non-stop for Rick Hulse is the chairman car had mounted the pavement detection system in here,” was my 18 hours before I had arrived, of the NABD, at speed and, silly bugger that incongruous, albeit factual, reply I reassessed my anger and the National I am, I had completely failed to before a wave of pain returned me apologised for head-butting him. Association look left and right before stepping to blessed oblivion. At some point a surgical team of Bikers with a Disability, out onto the pavement! I didn’t My next foray into cognisance had been assembled and I was and the front see it coming, but I do vaguely found me face-to-breast with sent back to the soothing arms man for the remember it passing underneath a large nurse as she pushed a of Morpheus while they worked Smacked me as I flew through the air with rolled-up towel under my right their magic, saving my leg and Arse Comedy all the aerodynamic grace of a armpit. As she took the strain an sorting out the jigsaw of my Roadshow and is caravan full of porridge. extremely young-looking doctor shoulder. When I began to come no mean As I lay in the road, in the noticed that my eyes were open around in the recovery room a comedian torrential rain, I began to take and explained; “The surgical team stern looking nurse glared down himself. He’s stock of my situation. ‘Fuck me!’ are on their way in to see to your at me and with the voice of a been writing columns I thought, ‘that could have been leg, but you also have a dislocated pox-ridden Harpy she crowed, for biker a lot worse if I hadn’t rolled over shoulder. I’m just going to pop it “You bikers will never learn! You magazines the bastard like a Hollywood back in for you.” The whole thing go tearing around without a care for years stuntman!’ I became aware that had a dreamlike quality until he in the world and when it all goes now under a variety of something was channelling water began to wind my arm firmly wrong it’s us who have to deal pseudonyms into my earhole so I tried to get while pressing it hard against the with the mess! Motorcycles are and we here up. It was at this point I began to joint. The pain was incredible, dangerous! I hope you’ve learned at Biker are doubt my prowess as an amateur but this time unconsciousness did your lesson!” proud to have him here stuntman. I tried to push myself not come to my aid; after what felt Despite my mind being clouded writing as off the tarmac with my right arm like an eternity of torture I had by the anaesthetic I attempted himself. but nothing happened. I turned my no alternative, but to headbut the to explain to her in a clear and concise manner that, in my experience, motorcycles were not The pain was incredible, but this time as dangerous as telephone boxes. At this she stormed off in a huff, unconsciousness did not come to my aid; after what then a theatre technician gave me a cheeky wink and said, “It’s felt like an eternity of torture I had no alternative about time somebody put her in but to head-butt the poor bugger to get him off me her place. Well done young man!”

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