Sideburn 8 launch party

I want to go. All details here

FAIL

This time its a rear tyre blowout! one day I'll complete a journey on this thing. Made it 25 miles into my 100 mile quest.

Back in business.

The piston got torched previosly, I had trouble finding a replacement as it had a long rod high comp one in there, any b series owners may know that most stuff like that is for the short rod later versions. I managed to track down a +40 piston at a sane price from Petes classic bike parts in the Netherlands. The previous piston was a strange one as it was an actual BSA piston (not Hepolite or etc), and since getting this new one I now realise it was like 8:1 cr, wheras the one I got to replace it is 8.5:1. Hope thats not going to cause problems!.This one is a MC cast piston. It has a skirt seperation slot which the other one didn't so hopefully that will make it less likely to nip up.

I spent ages trying to fit the final circlip in, then I could not get it to seat, after ages I realised I was putting it in the side that already had a circlip!

I hate doing the timing, 7/16" btdc. It took ages to do, only to realise I made the mistake of setting it to 7/16" after tdc! 2'nd error of the day. Set it to the reccomended 7/16"btc fully advanced, but seems to me ike there's a lot of variables to simply set the pionts to .002 @ 7/16" btdc. What about mag pinion play and stuff.

Stagger the ring gaps, none on the thrust side bla bla.

Durham Heathens

Its like, years ago, and I'm like well cooler than You. Great old picture of a guy on a bike of the time (M20) From ere.

Check this out.

Its a Blown BSA. Wow nice one. I saw this one on the show and go blogsite

Alcyon

Motosanglaises has a picture of these coupe of good un's. Alcyon and Ravat.