Tag Archives: Kettle

The Annual Updates

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Ian R. Sandy

It is an annual event, and this year was perhaps a bit larger than usual. In addition to the ongoing changes and small additions I do as a part of normal house-keeping, I also do rebuilds on sections of the … Continue reading →

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Setting the Anchours

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Ian R. Sandy

I realise that ‘anchour’ is an archaic form of ‘anchor’ , but as it could be said that a drum brake is archaic when compared to a disc, I’m going to go with it ! This article then is about … Continue reading →

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It Had a Hard Life

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Ian R. Sandy

The build continues. As mentioned previously, the frame had some damage that needed repair, and Jonathan and Derek at Trillion Industries did a great job. The area around the brake pivot post has been completely rebuilt, reinforced and I suppose … Continue reading →

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‘Regal Red’ Rides Again !

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Ian R. Sandy

Well – that is the plan at least ! 🙂 With “Oily Purple” on the road and running well, it was time to start work on one of the two sequentially numbered bikes. These are about 3000 frame numbers younger … Continue reading →

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OJB on Facebook

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Ian R. Sandy

I’m not completely certain this will be a good idea, but I have gone ahead and set up an OJB page on Facebook. You can take a look at it via this link. It is ‘public’ so you don’t actually … Continue reading →

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Airbox Gasket

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Ian R. Sandy

A fellow I know in the UK by the name of Ian Beardsley (an excellent first name by the way 🙂 ) has been making reproduction bits and pieces for the Suzuki GT750 for some time now. I bought a … Continue reading →

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The Flasher

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Ian R. Sandy

So your turn signal/indicator relay just exited for its place in electronics heaven, and as a result you now have a distinct lack of flash about your machine. You can resort to arm waving, but I suspect most younger drivers … Continue reading →

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More Low Clouds – Part Three

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Ian R. Sandy

So the day had come – after all this work not to mention a chunk of loose change, had these engine modifications actually improved anything ? Well, for one thing you will note there was a lot less smoke this … Continue reading →

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More Low Clouds

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Ian R. Sandy

Very nearly two years ago I started a project to rebuild the engine of my 1976A test mule by doing some dyno testing. This was to establish a baseline of how the engine was performing before actually making any changes … Continue reading →

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Dating a Suzuki

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Ian R. Sandy

One of the things that I know we all lay awake at night thinking about is ‘what do those markings on Suzuki components mean ?’.  So to put our collective minds at ease, I have been doing some checking into … Continue reading →

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