Moto Guzzi V9 & Watsonian and other stuff.

Willy  keeping out of the weather with me.

That sounds like some serious rain.  Looks like Willy is wanting to know where the grain and hops are... lol

Willy doesn't do grain.... just hops......

Standard sort of winter storm here.

Maybe a whisker stronger winds than last year.

A couple of plants got sand blasted I think.

200 meters from the beach.

So that was something. 

Power was out for over 12hrs.

And couldn't get straight back on the lathe.

Did a bit today.

Just feeling my way as lathes were never my trade.

But a bit of something different. 

Cut the teeth off the new yesterday.

And cut the old sprocket back yesterday and today. 

Did a slight step cut on the new.

Different diameter one side to the other. 

Meant when it went over the old it was already true...

Well to a point.

Wondering how to fineness it a bit as I weld it.

Here it is. 

There was a sidecar with the old royal Enfield but the guy wanted silly money for the rust.

So not yet.

It seemed good at this point. 

But

And not a good but.

Didn't do the weld right and it pulled out of round a fair bit.

Wouldn't have thought it could.

May need to do again.

A bit frustrating in that there's so much other stuff needs doing........

No idea how I had time to go to work...

Speaking of going to.work Dennis decided to ride a couple of his old historic registered bikes to work.

1st the 39 military spec royal Enfield ( 350 sidevalve  )

Including the dispatch rider specific saddle bags ( again 1939 ).

Then the RD350.

On historic club licence the vehicle is basically only to be used on club runs.

Or for testing and tuning.

The test was how long it took to get to work. 

16 mins on the 39.

13 on the RD.

12 on the goldwing.

Bummed for you on the sprocket.  

Any chance you could overcome the warpage with a heat & press routine? 

Meantime Dennis is having way too much fun.  Someone needs to.let him know it's winter.  He should be miserable and cold... 😉 

(Very cool collection of bikes 🤩 )

I keep stiring him about taking his car when it rains.......

Meow meow meow.

But to be fair he drives buses on a split shift .

So goes to work twice a day with long break in the middle. 

It would drive me nuts.

But it pays better so he does it.

I  mentioned some of the portable bike enclosures that are available. 

So he will check with the powers that be if its allowable.

Then a full rain suit could be left with the bike as well.

(No lockers) 

It doesn't rain that much here and his total  commute is less than an hr a day.

The sprocket pulled out of round rather than just buckled sideways. 

Which caught me out a fair bit.

Should have preempted it but not so this time.

So cut of and replace as it's already heat treated.

Annoying but that's experience gained and Dennis is paying. 

I just wasted a couple of days. 

Posted by: @brstr

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I just wasted a couple of days. 

Bruce, I wouldn't say that you wasted a couple days.

Think of the experience gained from finding out how NOT to do it, and what that is worth.

Full value received Miles.

Thank you.

Dennis turned up this morning so I put the sprocket in the lathe and spun it.

A bit awkward trying to accurately measure the run out but he decided to run it 1st and see.

A bit of chain slap won't stop it straight away. 

He needs the wheels fitted so he can start it for the 1st time. 

So press on.

Back in the '70s U.S. bike scene elliptical sprockets were a thing.  

Maybe some knee high sport socks, and a pair of Adidas Stan Smith's are in order... 😉