Pre 65 Trials
OK. Well the term Pre 65 trials is a bit misleading now-a-days.
The term was started way back in the eighties, when a group of guys thought it would be a good idea to pull some of the discarded old British trials bikes@ back out of the sheds, and back into competitive use.@
The name @Pre 65@ was used as this was the natural cut off point, when British built trials bikes faded, in favour of the new bikes imported@from Spain.
This came about when the great Sammy Miller stopped riding his f...
Motorcycle Wall Calendar
We have made a wee calendar page which pops up in a new window. You can bookmark it for easy reference, or print it out and stick it on your wall.click here to view the calendar pageWe would like to make more versions of the calendar. If you can supply a set of images (your copyright retained, link to your site, ...) please Contact Us.
Buying Used Motorcycle Parts
Buying Used Motorcycle PartsThe next time you need a spare part for your motorcycle, ask yourself if you would be better off buying it used. With the price of new spares being so high, especially for an old bike, it can easily cost more for new parts for a repair than the bike is even worth. If you are unlucky enough to throw your 1980@s sports bike down the road it is likely that just the cost of a few panels and pieces will come to more than the value of the bike.Used parts don@t have to be...
Custom Paint
Motorcycles have always been customized, whether it be adding chrome to a Harley Davidson, or making a superbike more like the GP bikes on the world circuit. Wheels can be changed, handlebars can be changed, and the seats and tanks etc, modified.However the most popular way of changing a bike's identity, or to add a piece of your own personality, is by custom painting. The increase in popularity of bike racing has lead to more and more replica paint jobs, and even limited edition bikes with c...
Painting your bike with Aerosol Cans
When selecting paint you want to be looking at a good quality product, the 2 for a £1.00 might be quite tempting, but you may have to use substantially more to achieve the finish you require. You will do better to go for the more expensive products with well-established track records.PREPARATIONThe importance of proper preparation cannot be over emphasised. This part of the operation is usually not taken very seriously, yet, in reality is critical to the quality of the end result. ...
Annealling Copper & Aluminium washers
Or, making your oil-tight washers oil-tight again.So you've dropped the oil from your engine / gearbox / forks / bevel drive, and you realise you should have bought a new washer for the drain plug cause the old one looks a bit squashed. Will it seal again? Will you over-tighten (and strip!) the drain plug getting it to seal?Better to re-anneal the washer if you are going to re-use it.Why? - When you 'work' copper or aluminium, it goes hard. Tightening an oil-drain plug against a washer '...
Motorcycle Trailer Wiring Codes
Standard 7 pin UK trailer wiring - '12N'
@1
Yellow
Left Indicator
@2
Blue
Fog light
@3
White
Earth
@4
Green
Right Indicator
@5
Brown
Right Side Light
@6
Red
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UK Registration Letters and Area Codes
We have lists of:What year is it ? abc 123 S is a 1979 S-Reg.Where was it registered ? 3 lists:
1974 - 1999 @ By town of where the Local Registering Office was. @ xAF 123 would be Truro (which is in Cornwall)
Pre-1974 @ By area of where that Registering Office issued codes for. @ xAF 123 would be Cornwall (issued by the Truro office)
@ @ @ @ These 2 lists may have inconsistencies, and may be wrong in some cases. If you can clarify, please let us know.
@ @ @ @ The 1974 spli...
UK Statistics on Bikes and Motorcycle Licence Holders
There are over 1 million of us in the UK
There are about 1 million UK licenced (taxed) motorcycles on the road each year. This implies 1.3 million active riders (given DVLA's assumption of 15-25% road fund licence evasion). But some of us have more than one bike taxed, which makes it a bit less.
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So its somewhere around 1.1 - 1.2 million active riders in the UK.(There are 5 million full motorcycle licence holders, so 4/5ths are inactive.)(There are 525,000 female full moto...
Quick reads
Some motorcycle articles and sites we liked.We saved the best ones here....How 'special interest' can you get? Cross-stitch patterns of motorcycles!@A really interesting bunch of How To Ride Articles. From how to ride your first big bike to counter-steering and why high-sides happen.Nicely implemented online Hazard Perception Test like the official Test (all smug here because we got 5/5 and passed :).Those steep hills the French climb motorcycles up, as seen on Men@Motors.@Events Diary with m...