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A few bits I polished. Either made in my workshop or modified for one reason or another.

This is an engine removal, tilting, lifting, extraction thingie I made. The XS650 motor is a very tight fit in the frame, In their wisdom, the Japanese decided if you need to work on anything but the alternator or clutch the engine should be removed from the frame. But removing the engine from...

This is a seat I built for the 74 TX650. Made from 1.5mm sheet with a cowl. Front mount is a piece of angle with a 22mm receiver welded in place and bolted to,the frame under the tank mount. The seat is fitted with a single prong mount, covered in rubber tube. There was insufficient room...

The 74 TX650.was in a pretty crook condition when I bought it: Every nut and bolt was rusted, aluminium was badly,oxidised admitted, and it looked lime the only tools the POhad were a hammer and chisel. After getting the engine out of the bike I got it up on the bench and started stripping it...

Some wheels I built for the 74 TX650. The bike was fitted with alloy wheels when I brought it home, but the original spoked wheels were also supplied. Spokes were totally rusted out and rims were badly damaged from use of screwdrivers, hammers, chisels, apparently anything the PO could lay his...

Previously I made a clutch slave with a 25mm piston. I bought a 9.5mm master cylinder and hooked it up. No go, the master only moved the slave piston a little under 1mm, not enough to separate the plates, so, back on the lathe. I had a couple of 20mm hydraulic ram seals so turned up a slave...

Like most bikes of the era the TX650 had a basic engine breather breathing into the airbox. I've done quite a few mods to this bike, including VM barbs and pancake filters. The pancake filters don't lend themselves well to engine blowby being fed into them, plus I don't like the idea of...

This took a lot of work, I had to modify the right side engine cover, machine up a new cover for the now gone strainer, machine a spin on filter mount, fabricate some new engine mounts to hold the mount, fabricate a mount for the cooler, machine up a few stainless fittings for the mod, plus a...

To go with the new carbs and manifolds I made these pancake filters. I did have pods on originally but I noticed the hole in the rubber mounting grommet was smaller than the bellmouth partially blocking the three holes in the bellmouths. Not ideal, so, I decided to make a couple of pancake...

Some bits I polished up off the TX650. Fork legs had caliper mounts on both legs, As I was only using one disk I removed the caliper mounts,on the left leg before polishing. Rims were scarred from hammers, screwdrivers and whatever else the PO could lay his hands on, I cleaned them up as...

The TX650 came stock with an electro magnet alternator, a popular mod is a PMA using second hand parts from various bikes and bodging up a Banshee mount to fit. Otherwise you can buy a new conversion kit from many of the XS specialists. I baulked at the price of the kit, around $400/$500. I...

Twin to single points conversion. The TX650 came stock with a two point ignition system, same as the Brit twins. If there is a reason for two sets, it escapes, me, after all there are plenty of bikes with one set of points, and cars with one set of points feeding 4,6 and 8 cylinder engines...

I've made a lot of mods to this bike, one of the first was a conversion to VM carbs. The bike came from the factory with BS38s, which are a vacuum type carb. Being 50 years old the carbs weren't in the best condition, needing new diaphragms and what not. However, diapphragms were $130 each...

I found this rusted hulk a few years ago and over three years transformed it. Lots and lots of mods: VM carbs, extended manifolds, PMA cog by nversion, single points conversion, spin on filter, oil cooler, plus custom seat, tail light, headlight bracxkets, harnesses, risers, exhaust pipes...

I started this project about three years ago, not much Yamaha left now, pretty well everything handmade in my workshop: PMA mount, single points cam, VM carb manifolds, reed valve breather catch can, fuel distributor, engine mounts, brake line junction, pancake filters, exhausts, mufflers, side...

This is my last Brit bike bike, a Triumph Bonny. Too damned expensive now. All work: mechanicals, balancing, paint, polishing, spoking, electrical, sheet metal work and so on I did myself. The gray is the first version of the Bonny I did when stationed in the NT. The bin received the seat and...

The guy I bought this off was a bit of a dope: Abused the hell out of the bike, never did any maintenance and when it wouldn't start he'd punch the tank. Eventually, it wouldn't start at all, so he sold it to me. When I got it home,, I checked the vacuu petcocks, and sure enough, they were...

These are a couple of pics of of YB100 bucket racer I built. I bought two wrecks for a few bucks and stripped the decent parts off them to build one bike. Frame was cut off at the back and a flat plate added on which to mount a tail light I made. I made a single seat for it and sewed up a...

I love polished aluminium. But sometimes a polished finish isn't appropriate either because you can't easily access the part, because you want it coloured or a host of other reasons. I recently made a cable splitter,, but because it's mounted under the tank it's difficult to get to to polish...