[BruLan]

Escorted Dave Myers on his last ride from home to the Church
Bike cleaned and ready to go
Proud !!

[Raymond]

Escorted Dave Myers on his last ride from home to the Church
Bike cleaned and ready to go
Proud !!

That's really nice that you could travel that last journey with him on two wheels.

When my dear departed Mother passed, friend of mine came to the funeral on an old Norton International. A few people looked askance but Gordon said 'Well somebody had to come on a motorbike.'

Mum never owned a car in her life, brought me up on't back of a succession BSA Bantams.

[BruLan]

That's really nice that you could travel that last journey with him on two wheels.

When my dear departed Mother passed, friend of mine came to the funeral on an old Norton International. A few people looked askance but Gordon said 'Well somebody had to come on a motorbike.'

Mum never owned a car in her life, brought me up on't back of a succession BSA Bantams.

It was quite fitting, he would have loved it.
His RE 500 Trials Bike was outside hus house too.

[ddavidv]

Replaced the clutch pack with Hitchcocks 'better' parts. Wow, it doesn't slip when cold anymore. Who'd have thought?

[stinkwheel]

My brother bought me a full size set of longhorn cow horns as a "white elephant" christmas gift a few years back, knowing full well I don't have a big enough bit of wall space to hang them. One of the members of my bike club has recently built a bar in one of his outhouses for the club to use and needs some decoration for it. We have a meeting there at the weekend and I'm going on the bullet. It would be wrong not to.

[AzCal Retred]

Parking shouldn't be a problem - Well done sir!   
 
Another use for horns - Arizona Legend Tex Earnhardt using horns to sell cars  since 1955
<<  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIfe6EFE9SA  >>  "And that ain't no bull..." 

[1977B1]

After the ordeal of Chain or Bearing noise issue, the bike required some love and care, added thinner pudding in gear box, I am trying to switch over from pudding to oil. last time i had added 50 grade oil in the gearbox, I was able to remove some of the grease and oil mix and replaced with more thinner pudding. Hopefully one day will be able to take out maximum pudding. How you guys remove the oil or grease from gear box without opening it?

[AzCal Retred]

I've always had to fiddle with the kickstart pawls, so I used a handy stick & scraped it out, mostly. ATF is made for transmission gears, I'd even run that to help thin out the grease if I didn't have to pull covers. Snidal used motor oil.The main idea is to dilute & solulize the old grease, virtually any oil will provide plenty of film strength. Use the level plug as a test point. Drain & fill every 50-200 miles or so. Just big steel gears passing on 15-20 HP inside there, the same gears can survive +40 HP. They are under stressed gears running on steel shafts, ball bearings & bushes. The main thing is to keep enough oil inside to lube the shafts, bushes & bearings. Mine seem to respond well to 85W140, but it's fairly warm where I live. These machines aren't space shuttles.

The only "leakage" issues I've has was from one machine with a cracked clutch pushrod cover, an order to Hitchcock's sorted that for me. These machines will always have a few drips, they are old school workaday transportation, not museum pieces. Keeps the dust down in the yard! 

[stinkwheel]

How you guys remove the oil or grease from gear box without opening it?

Go for a really long ride so it gets very hot and thin then empty it as soon as you get back. That will remove the majority of it.

[1977B1]

I've always had to fiddle with the kickstart pawls, so I used a handy stick & scraped it out, mostly. ATF is made for transmission gears, I'd even run that to help thin out the grease if I didn't have to pull covers. Snidal used motor oil.The main idea is to dilute & solulize the old grease, virtually any oil will provide plenty of film strength. Use the level plug as a test point. Drain & fill every 50-200 miles or so. Just big steel gears passing on 15-20 HP inside there, the same gears can survive +40 HP. They are under stressed gears running on steel shafts, ball bearings & bushes. The main thing is to keep enough oil inside to lube the shafts, bushes & bearings. Mine seem to respond well to 85W140, but it's fairly warm where I live. These machines aren't space shuttles.

The only "leakage" issues I've has was from one machine with a cracked clutch pushrod cover, an order to Hitchcock's sorted that for me. These machines will always have a few drips, they are old school workaday transportation, not museum pieces. Keeps the dust down in the yard! 

Thanks....so i am on right track. Diluting it and eventually most grease will be out. I am in India...so its very warm. I think I can also try 85w 140. Next will try this!!

[1977B1]

Go for a really long ride so it gets very hot and thin then empty it as soon as you get back. That will remove the majority of it.

Thats one way of doing it, hopefully this weekend will do that in afternoon, temp here in afternoon already touching 40* C...so it will thin out fast!!

[AzCal Retred]

For me and my bikes, the thinner gear oils (70W90, etc.) did not seem to provide the "cushion" this old girl seemed to need for smooth gear transitions, especially towards the end of a ride.

The other part of the equation is learning to shift that clockworks gearbox:
1) (from a 1935 article) Clutch in
2) Toe into next gear & hold with foot
3) clutch out, see if it really "made the trip"
4) release toe pressure, crack on! 
Don't get in a hurry - there's biggo pieces moving slow in there, it's not a Honda/Yamaha/Kawasaki/Suzuki...

[1977B1]

Holding the gear is the key!! No hurry....and it really works!