Yes and in normal times it would be not a dream and I’d be preparing for the ride tomorrow, unfortunately though it’s a dream and I’m having a nightmare instead staying home fixing my Indian in the garage. Weirdly though it’s going to be cold a wet on Sunday but even that wouldn’t deter me if the restrictions were lifted, I’m desperate as a golfer and a football supporter at the moment sitting on my bikes and making brmm brmm noises and imagining I’m off riding to a destination.
With the Elizabeth st store now shut and the era of corporate stores in the Polaris empire shut with it, we have an announcement that two new stores in Melbourne are open for business which will be the start of many franchises happening around Australia. The good thing is at the moment they are running out the 2019/20 models cheaply as the new 2021 versions are announced in August. Unfortunately no news about loyal Indian dealer John Gee at Antique Motorcycles yet.
Indian Motorcycles Keilor
2/16A Keilor Park Dr Keilor East 3033
Indian Motorcycles Dandenong
121 Frankston-Dandenong Rd Dandenong 3175
Plenty to borrow from Pete Kime if your home self isolating
What a wank, the only thing we need off Vic Roads is to be able to have a new system to pay our red plate permit without a cheque book or visiting them with cash or a credit card, they have brought in substantial changes but not ones that are needed in my opinion, I would like to pay at the post office or better still with my credit card like my normal vehicle registration please.
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To all fellow members bored at home I decided to get the worlds slowest Vincent out yesterday, my Vincent Firefly. I took about a hour to get it running and I’ve been meaning to break in my new english male Brooks saddle anyway, the Malvern Star is my original I used to pedal to work in the late sixties so I’m sentimentally attached to it I thought about a Indian Bicycle Frame but they are impossible to find, still it would be nice to have another Vindian.
Done this before on a blog but a repeat in this time when we are all self isolating wont do any harm, one severely rusted fuel tank because no fuel stabiliser was added and the modern fuels which has a shelf life of about 3 weeks ,YES 3 Weeks, starts to go off and smells like Turps. One old pre-intellegent battery charger, one sacrificial steel tube, one rubber chair leg end (for the end of the tube) and two plastic clothes pegs, one bag of $4.50 washing soda from Woolies, and some fresh water. Remove the fuel taps and plug holes mix 8 scoops of Washing soda into a couple of buckets of water mix well and pour into the fuel tank right to the top, drop in the steel tube and insulate it from touching the filler neck with the pegs, plug the negative lead onto the petrol tap hole blanking plug, then attach the positive to the steel rod and switch the charger on high then leave it go for 2-3 hours. the sludge that comes out will amaze you note picture above, it wont damage your paintwork that can be washed off later, every few hours remove the steel tube and wire brush off as it becomes inert covered in sludge, about 24 hours later remove the fluid and hose the tank out, some really bad tanks will need a second go, thats it and thanks to Paul Taylor for the tank to recover from scrap. Don’t forget fuel stabiliser to stop the fuel breaking down in the future.
Our esteemed editor just posted are good article on military bike on his All Moto Investor magazine a fantastic read
Yesterday self Isolating I decided to catch up on doing some work on my newly acquired 346 Chief, it required three time consuming jobs, firstly re-time the oil pump so the distributor was’nt 90 degrees out so on full advance the distributor cap would not lever itself to the gearchange rod and fit a new advance cable and right angle bracket. Secondly it needed aluminum guard strips fitting so remove the wheels and drill 30 holes in the mudguards for the locating bolts, lastly skim the step out of the brake drum 10 thou so the wheel is simple to remove rather than belting the tyre with a mallet to get it to release. All painfully slow jobs taking a full day to finish i did’nt resort to turning the bike upside down like the service mechanic fixing the 741B above but I felt like doing that attaching those strips its painful down on the knees looking under the the full valanced guards on a Chief and screwing on those 30 small nuts anyway the result is good and the bike is more functional to boot and its still for sale in our Trading post Area
