Some depends on what it rides like 2 up… the Mrs finds my TDM too tall to get on easily (she has MS), so it might stay a simple rat commuter that she can get on… but I do like the shortened look of the seat tubes already, so single seating it hasn’t been written off yet. Not keen on the monster end can either, a little cherry bomb might suit 
I wanna make the bugger run first 
Yes, I’ve found that a running engine is always a good idea. 
The irony of the picture is thtat you’d be mad to ride that bike on wet roads.
Built by Scottish builders JM Customs and photographed at a POW camp in Scotland. Hard bastards up there.
Eh? I didn’t know we were at war with anybody. Have those Cumbrians been after our cattle again?
They were border reivers, Cumbria hadn’t been invented then (it’s younger than me 
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If/when I get mine finished, I’ll tek it up Grizedale and change its name to “One” in honour.
I didn’t realise my cousin’s sheep farm was so close to Cultybraggan Camp, and I knew nothing about the camp. It’s on the list for a visit!
I’ve been making brackets to fit a new ignition switch (just a positional photo thing, needs finishing and painting up yet) I bought what was supposed to be a new replacement switch from Spain… turns out it didn’t remotely fit, hence the brackets and the leads end in a 6 pin connector… but is supposed to go into an 8 pin connector (with 7 wired pins) so I am gonna have to fuck about with the wiring anyway!
I also wiped the worst of the detritus off the carbs, thinking about stripping and cleaning next week… turns out I’m not the first person since they left the Keihn factory to consider entering their depths! The telltales are the screw heads… which makes me think it wasn’t Mr Honda or Mr Yoshimura tinkering about inside…
That’s a nice bit of ‘spanner (screwdriver implement) rash’ on those soft as cheese heads. Why is it even I never get the proverbial virgin?
I remember in the late seventies and early eighties the fashion was Allen key screw head sets for almost anything unreliable.
In between the days madness and running around after kids and the such, I squeezed in getting the right side carb cleaned… maybe get left side fettled tomorrow.
Ok, t’other carb cleaned out now!
But for the want of a nail, the kingdom was lost… or in my case, a couple of 6x2 O rings. The Rigid fuel connector pipe that feeds the right carb from the left has a couple of these little lovelies where it jams into the carb bodies… currently, it makes a nice little rattling sound (like a cartoon mouse, in it’s home, in your wall gap, shaking its tiny little biscuit barrel with only a few crumbs in it) This tells me there is not an adequately seal between fuel tube and carb body… so they have been duly ordered.
I also noticed the second carb has a lot of carbon deposits on the slide… 
… probably backfired a lot!
Ok, this may have been the longest carb strip down in history… and to the uneducated eye, they’ll look nowt different. In my defence, I did have a short break in Wales sorting out my son into university. I could have spent a lot more time bringing out the gleaming metal from beneath the patina… but that’s not what the bike’s about! Inside, it’s all clean and upto petrol flow again (at least until I test it ) I had to use the screws again, but having the correct size driver meant they gripped properly and had no further mullering.
I think I need to fettle the wiring next … now I’m out of my comfort zone! But that’s not tonight’s job. I’ve got my knuckle guards to refit on the tedium.
Progress is made by the looks! The wiring I find is simple from that era.
Compared to modern bikes, yup!
But I’m not a bright spark-plug; I don’t have the capacitor to retain the information; electronics seem to resistor my learning; it makes me blow my fuse; and I have to generator some stronger resolve; it brings me down to earth; so I try to switch to any other job first; but after a lightbulb moment, I realise it’s a rat bike; and it’s the key to my learning electronics!
Those are truly SHOCKING puns…!
From what I see you’ve got good indicators that you get your wires in a twist 
I’ll get charged with battery if these puns get worse… but I guess I was the starter, so I should button my lip!
