Grey Flash Diary May 2013
As I looked around the piles of parts surrounding the engine it looked like it was time to start the final build.......
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Grey Flash Diary Apr 2013
As I looked around the piles of parts surrounding the engine it looked like it was time to start the final build.......
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Grey Flash Diary Mar 2013
After a year of building modifying and fitting parts to the Grey Flash Project, the fact it only took about 3 hours to return it to just an engine sitting all on its own on the bench......
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Grey Flash Diary Feb 2013
Now would be a good time to get some tyres I thought, so I contacted Avon/Coopers for some rubber for the 20” front and 19” rear......
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Grey Flash Diary November 2012
I seem to remember reading somewhere that some Flashes had their brake drums painted grey, perhaps that was true for the show bikes. When it came to the short production run however,....
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Grey Flash Diary October 2012
This month was the busiest month for my bikes. First a ride on the 27 EW Douglas at the Kop hill climb Thanks Angela), then a Friday track day on the Comet racer at Cadwell, followed by a weekends racing and topped off by a ride in the MCC Edinburgh (Derbyshire) Trial on a trail bike....
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Grey Flash Diary August 2012
My attempt at wheel building started with a problem, the holes in my Borani rim did not accept the normal 8G nipples so my choice was stainless spokes in either 8G butted down to 9G or plain 9G...
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Grey Flash Diary July 2012
First I fitted the head and barrel without the piston followed by the ufm the aim being to sort the carb position and how much tank cutaway I shall need..
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Grey Flash Diary June 2012
The workshop has been a busy place this month What with swapping of gearbox cogs in the Comet Racer, Angela’s XBR, and the Scott coming off its pedestal after a 3 year long fitful build things are a little crowded....
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Grey Flash Diary May 2012
The dry build continues. It could be argued that I am taking my time over this build, however it’s never the only job in the workshop, and work progresses as other jobs stall or become frustrating...
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Grey Flash Diary Apr 2012
Re-reading my diary entry for last month I felt a little uncomfortable about my comment on the arrangement of the fitment of an Albion box on a Grey Flash, where I called it a “bit of a lash up”...
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Grey Flash Diary Mar 2012
You may remember those shiny metal puzzles, the bent nails or the entangled rings, Perhaps the fiddle of getting the assembled gear cluster into a twin gearbox seems complex, well those tasks are small fry compared to fitting the gear selector ‘stirrup’ into the racing Albion gearbox.
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Grey Flash Diary Feb 2012
The Racing Comet still has priority but I took time off as I tried to get a rough assembly of the major parts of the Flash crankcase and gearbox to try and get to the point where I could measure up the dimensions for the primary belt drive it seems that at my selected primary ratio ( 1:88)
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Grey Flash Diary Jan 2012
The Comet racer has priority in the workshop, so after a quick struggle with a slide hammer and a poor heat source, I farmed out my Grey Flash oil pump sleeve and new cam spindle to Roger Forsyth who is just down the road from me.
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Grey Flash Diary Dec 2011
This month I have holidays and time away from my workshop this is not all bad news as there are (or should be) a lot of considerations when building a replica like a Grey Flash.
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Grey Flash Diary Nov 2011
As we discussed the finer points of how to 'knock up' a Scott crank shaft ,(You honestly don't want to know) my instructor said, “I am surprised you have not noticed the Vincent bits under the bench”. There reposing almost out of sight was a close ratio Albion box and all the Flash accoutrement's, Engine plates, bent links, and the much discussed special frame tie.
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