I've had something similar happen to me on a long ride back from Hamburg.

My scottoiler ran dry, chain stretched, jumped a tooth on the front sprocket and hit the push rod, snapping it and dislodging the seal. I don't remember a lot of oil coming out though? But this would be my guess.

Tha'ts what I'm thinking... take your sprocket housing off and in front of the sprocket you should see a rod coming out of the engine, if there is just a hole that is leaking oil then your chain has either snapped or jumped and knocked the top off of the clutch push rod. I have also seen this happen when the front sprocket retaining nut has failed.

Vincents were a v twin or a sloping single, that looks to be an upright engine. That would more than likely make it a 500/650cc at the biggest. But looking closely at the engine I would have said that what you have there is a Norton model 50 (350cc) which would be mid 50s the suspension set up is too late to be 40s

I don't think that's a Vincent, the swing arm arrangement is all wrong. I thought (and I am by no means an expert on brit bikes) had swing arms that were monoshock direct linkage like the RD350. Looks more like a Norton to me.

I fucking love internet experts and their happy-shopper tool kits, I get loads more work now 


Now I could pick that video to pieces but fuck it, can-not-be-arsed anymore

Take the caliper and clamp it in a vice, Use blocks of wood to protect it if the vice has serrated jaws. Get an old drill bit (6mm-1/4"), Blunt the drill bit, You want it to grip but not start cutting. Use the drill from the inside of the caliper onto the unbroken end of the bolt. Make sure the drill has a slow start on it and turn the speed & torque right down. Lean into the drill and make sure you are applying a fair bit of pressure


If done right the drill will grip the bolt enough to start winding the broken thread out. Only wind it out until you have enough protruding thread to get hold off with a pair of grips to wind the rest of the way out. Then just to make sure the damaged bolt hasn't caught the thread clean up with greased tap of the correct thread.

Bring it up the A1 to Huntingdon and I'll do it for you, I have done dozens of gear selector changes now.

Tubb's my big old staff who used to ride on the Beemer trike, used to be fine on the bench seat although I never went that fast with him on board 50 mph max. But when I used to go over about 40 he would move across the bench and sit directly behind me. I only ever used to clip his harness to the seat belt enough so that he could move across when he wanted to.

Little Deef is a Jack Russell &I haven't adapted the tank bag yet for him as he's still only a pup and I'm not sure how big he'll get, although I know you can buy "Doggles" for your dog and have seen all manner of adapted topboxes and bags for dogs on bikes and trikes. Most are homemade but some are commercially available.


Some clever ones are a topbox with a perspex bubble and air holes at the back, another with an internal harness a hold in the top with an adapted double bubble screen in front. my favourite is a guy out Ipswich way who has a trike with a lined box on the back with a lid on telescopic rods on all four corners so that his staff can pop the lid up about 6-8 inches when he wants to have a sniff.

link not working for me...............are you fitting stainless pipes Deef?

looked at a few of the EL replicas in various guises on google and personally I like the stainless over the black. How long before OMF is burning up the high street and does the new hound have his trike wings yet?

The pipe is a modded 4-1 with the pipe coming out the middle above the diff. I would like to find a Kerker for it but that's a job for the future. Although the donor wasn't an ELR it was a z400J now rebuild as a z550 but because I wanted to keep the classic Zed shape whereas most people seem to cover their trikes with all sorts of shit. The plan was to keep it as much looking like a classic Zed as possible and that means an ELR paint job.


This is it after the mock up, dry build & de-customised it as the previous owner must have been related to blind pugh. As it stands ATM it's waiting for it to warm up so I can get on with the paint work and then finish the final build.

All looks fine to me, one side is the speedo drive and the other is the wheel spacer, can't seem to see what you're getting at or am I missing something completely obvious?

Stupid, So very, very stupid

I remember one of your photos of your trike Deef, with OMF and your old staffie, can't remember if your lad was in there too but it must have been great for taking the dog out with you

would love to be able to take my dog with me but I don't trust him or the set ups ..........can't see him wearing goggles somehow

Yeah, Tubbs my old staffie would seat on the bench seat of the old beemer trike. The old fella loved it and would sit there good as good. Both dog and trike are long gone now, Watch this space for Laura's newly revonated Eddie Lawson Replica Z trike!

Rider Support Service - Always very helpful


http://www.ridersupport.co.uk/

I think i've normally found a good deal with M&P (or Busters, same people) as far as D.I.D. chains are concerned on Ebay, so you should at least be able to put a bit of faith in them.

Yup, now just give them your credit card details.......