Simbec1863

Not much happening with this old girl but nipped out on the smoker today and after visiting 3 post offices managed to find someone who knew what they were doing.She’s now registered historic and zero tax paid,just need to sort a few jobs on her and she might be back on the road this summer I’ll stick her in the queue with the other non running projects she’s number 3 on the list

What bike is it for? You can buy end can repack kits on eblag,Fuel and Delkevic make them and probably a few others to. A16 Road and race in Lincoln will probably have an end can that will fit,I’ve run them on 2 race bikes and they pass noise testing no problem with or without the baffle fitted. They will mod existing cans that they sell if you need any adjustments to, they’ve done it for me when my link pipe wasn’t quite the right size and a tight enough fit.

@Paulmforgot about that version Still got your old bits in the shed

I like purple

I’ve got some in my road slabby and will be having some in my race slabby once I’ve saved up some cash

I can confirm Maxton still do them I think it’s an SD20 or 25 cartridge kit as I rang them a couple of months ago to enquire about my K,if you email them they’ll send you the spec sheet and prices

Air in the tyres and fired her up ready for a ride tomorrow just to make sure alls good. Brakes need another bleed after last years rebuild but are ok once pumped

Next part of the upgrade list to include the following Maxton fork cartridges Couger red race clutch More modern radial front brake M/C Then maybe a 300 kit The lists the easy bit need to raise some funds first

Not started or rode the smoker since last July so dragged her out and took a couple of plug swaps to get her running right. Fitted some NOS mirrors that I got off a mate over the winter pretty cheap to replace the shit Chinese copies Air in the tyres then a short blast to warm her up and stick some fresh fuel in,forgot about the grin factor still lifts the front wheel on the throttle with my lump on it New shock feels great even on the dodgy back roads.

Stoke and Cambridge via the Far East somewhere still good quality I remember when we referred to stuff as Jap crap. I’ve got pipes on my smoker made in Thailand also top quality I guess it’s all in the design,manufacturing and quality assurance processes these companies use

I previously raced in the Classic Suzuki Blandit Challenge, black widow were a series sponsor and most bikes ran their systems,well made,decent power and robust even when crashed plus not too expensive either.Most bikes produced an arm wrenching 70+bhp when running the full system with no other mods other than jetting.I think they’re made in Cambridgeshire Uk unless they’ve moved production overseas.I’ve run a black widow system and Delkevic both made in Blighty

I’ve rebuilt a lot of forks and older boat anchors RWU forks have plastic preload spacers as well as more modern upside down Suzuki model forks The holes are for the pins in the spring compressor for detaching the adjuster from the damper tube

Did it on my 600 race bike so assume the 1200 will be much the same

On my H model it’s how your picture shows assume that is an F model frame as mine has 2 bolts is the captive nut at the lowest point?

The main part the headlights fit to? If so they should have captive nuts on the stay and go inside the fairing if not this then any pictures to show the issue?

Looks bloody lovely Tom

Cheers mate

Bugger on me hols in Cornwall until 30th but could roll up on the Sunday morning with a bike if you need an extra one mate

Forgot to say they also work closely with Torque Tune dyno services where we previously had an OSS dyno day

I’ll echo @Dezzacomments on NRP they are proper old skool you even get a cuppa when you visit,made my link pipes for the Killa K I rode there on a Saturday morning he made and fitted the pipes while I waited and will be making a full race system for my slabbie race bike Nigel is a top bloke and decent racer as well. Hes much cheaper than you’d expect but less money doesn’t mean less quality, he was making a full system for an XR69 when I last visited.

Thanks for the replies good sensible input, this confirmed my gut feeling guess there’s more to lose these days than gain by trying to beat the system and cut corners

Coming back to this after sometime now I have my ET registered as historic can I transfer parts over to the new frame and just stick my old plate on it as it will never go for an Mot or am I just chancing my arm and should go the MSVA route etc,any thoughts or experience with this? @Dezza @yantosh @370steve

I think Uk model 750 G and H also protrude, at least my H model does.

Race number confirmed today retained 51 as used on the blandit

It’s a non shim head L model Mark will be 771cc. if I get spanked then apparently with a few mods 980 is an option