6 years in planning...

Hello Chaps,

I am an infrequent poster here, but a frequent reader. The
next couple of days could change all that. That is of course
should anyone be interested <fx> ducks </fx>...

My Dad and I have finally started putting the BMW R51/3
together. After 6 years in planning this should go smoothly!

I was finally fed up moving boxes of BMW parts around the
garrage, and took a week off work.

Day one went ok, apart from not remembering where anything
was/went/looked like. But a parts manual and regular
reference to Babel Fish helped with the last two!

The engine eventually gave up the fight and went into the
frame (Dad remembering the technique he used to use helped),
and we have decorated the frame with some lovely scratches
and ample blood.

There's a couple of pictures here, that will be added to as
the week goes on (unless it all goes wrong), and I get to
practise my css as well.

http://www.iceni-networks.co.uk/bmw/

Nick

 

well, you don't want to be too hasty.

looks good so far.

 

Coming along nicely, is that. What year is it, anyway?

 

Says it's 1952 on the website.

 

Still 2006.

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Frinton Boy came up with the following;:

Nice.

Is the green plastic box just a tad dangerous? I mean, after six years
planning I'd have thought you'd have a proper stand for it at least ...

 

Hmmmm
Old enough to be a real classic check
Boxer twin check
Shaft drive check
Water cooled no
British no

3 out of 5, not bad.

 

Oo, lovely!

And can I start the CIHAGM queue right now, for when it's finished?

 

Ah, when I said 6 years of planning. What I meant was that
it had been 6 years of me planning to get round to it,
rather than actually planning how to do it.

Anyway I laugh in the face of danger, but we have replaced
the green box with lumps of wood after it cracked and the
bike slowly toppled towards me!

Nick

 

You are more than welcome, should our paths cross. Do you
get to NE Essex much?

(there's a couple more pictures up there now by the way. But
I need to work on the content now the site looks as I want
it to...)

 

Posh looking garage you have there.

 

Where's the blood? I see no blood, only a gleaming bike in the making.

 

There's nothing nastier than the feeling of a bike toppling, and knowing
that you can't stop it.

It's especially piquant when it topples into the bike standing next to
it.

 

<dejavu>groan</dv>

The other horrid one was tidily backing the Beemer into the kerb on a
steep hill (Lower Park Row for Bristol cognoscenti), then standing on
the uphill side and tilting it slightly to get the side stand down...

B****y embarrassing, but I *really* like those pot guards now.

Regards,

Simonm.

 

....which, in turn, topples into the bike standing next to it...

 

Frinton Boy came up with the following;:

I figured .. tuits are pretty rare round these parts too.

It's a scenario I both envisaged and have had happen to me in the past ....
hence the nod ...

 

I was reading recently that there is a world shortage of
tuits at the moment. Thought to be caused by global warming,
we are all getting a more Mediterranean/Carribean attitude.

Nick