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My wardrobe.....

Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:59 am
by NI VFR
Will take a few evenings to post as my pics are not all in the same place and some need to be taken....
So first up... There seems to a a bit of a Ducati stable on here so here is mine and a mates Ducati. Basically mother and grandaughter.

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At Marlacoo Lake just 1 mile from the Tandragee 100 course:

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My son does photography... taken at 70mph from the tailgate of the missus 406....

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Static shot....

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Current his & hers........

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Re: My wardrobe.....

Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:28 pm
by NI VFR
And of course the current nightmare..........

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This picture does not come remotely close to the butchery and bodge job that this bike has been subjected to....

Re: My wardrobe.....

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:29 pm
by jo
It's been Tyga'd! What do you expect!

Re: My wardrobe.....

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:06 pm
by NI VFR
jo wrote:It's been Tyga'd! What do you expect!
Indeed........ didn't quite expect the amount of work this is going to take, mostly butchery by the previous owner....:roll:

Anyway, some more pics of another bike awaiting treatment, started this last autumn...........

The Norman B2S:

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1956, older than me.............

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Has one of these, 197cc version:

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Crankcase cleaned up and blueprinted:

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Supposed to look like this but mine is in blue and has a dual seat, can't find a decent picture of the same bike anywhere.... only mine is in a thousand pieces, although, there might not actually be a thousand pieces in the 5 boxes this came in..... :roll:

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Re: My wardrobe.....

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:08 pm
by vic-vtrvfr
Villiers 8e ?

Re: My wardrobe.....

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:25 pm
by NI VFR
Actually a 7E , got a solid brass flywheel.....but hard to tell the difference, I'm no expert on these....yet...........

Re: My wardrobe.....

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:50 pm
by NI VFR
And then there's this.................

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Purchased 5 months ago to go into a rolling chassis I bought 10 years ago.............

Re: My wardrobe.....

Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 6:27 pm
by VFRkieran
Some nice photo's you have there, like Jo says most 30's that have had the Tyga treatment have been butchered to buggery. Will be following your progress with it.

Re: My wardrobe.....

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 2:36 am
by willandrip
350 B is mint.
What you got planned for the other motor?

Re: My wardrobe.....

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:18 am
by NI VFR
willandrip wrote:350 B is mint.
What you got planned for the other motor?
The 350B is in pretty good order now, took some work. I've owned since it was nearly new, written it off, raced it in F2, left to rot, restored, got damp under the winter covers and had to be tidied up again about 5 years ago.....

The 250A engine is going into a rolling chassis I bought many years ago to finish up the restoration of the 350 as I needed the mudguards and various other chrome bits off it. I have since acquired some reasonable chrome parts and this engine, so the lot can go together to have a run-about. The only real difference between the A and the B models are the cylinder heads, the later B had a heavier (more sturdy and less prone to cracking) head with long reach plugs.