Retrograde Mechanica: 09/05/13

Thursday, 5 September 2013

its time......

to be building a bike for my godson, as seen here on my brothers R75/5

For Sale

Lots of Triumph engine and Chassis bits for sale at mo...first few, email retrogrademechanica@gmail.com or call on 07854116505

T110 650 8 stud Head, excellent shape - freshly vapour blasted and skimmed.

Does have the usual minor 8 stud cracks - these do not affect the head. will require valves, springs and seats doing.

T110 650 Triumph Single Carb Manifold. Good used manifold - I can Vapour Blast for cost.

Amal Monobloc - Good used carb - I can vapour blast and re-plate nuts and bolts etc for cost.

Triumph 650 8 Stud Iron Barrel - Appears to be on +40 Bore, requires tappet blocks plating, blasting and painting and a light hone - again will do all for cost. All fins are in great condition.

I also have the following coming up for sale - contact for interest.

Triumph/BSA DQ complete wheel in good condition, laced to 19 inch chrome wheel with SS spokes

Triumph 8 Stud rocker boxes - no internals, will be vapour blasted prior to sale

Triumph 7" SLS complete wheel - needs work, silly cheap

BSA Hornet Fibre Glass tank

Chrome speedway handlebars

Avon Speedmaster rear as new 16x5.00

Avon Speedmaster rear as new 19x3.50

Avon Speedmaster front's x2 barely used 19x3.00

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"Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of a "knack" or some kind of "affinity for machines" in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process of reason, and most of the troubles are caused by what old time radio men called a "short between the earphones," failures to use the head properly. A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself"

"That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind — number three tappet is right on too. One more to go. This had better be it — .I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this...that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. They associate metal with given shapes...pipes, rods, girders, tools, parts...all of them fixed and inviolable, and think of it as primarily physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forge work or welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not. Shapes, like this tappet, are what you arrive at, what you give to the steel. Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine here. These shapes are all out of someone's mind. That's important to see. The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there. But what's "potential"? That's also in someone's mind! — Ghosts"