The second project...'Tiggy'

[themoudie]

Dear Mr Rioja! 

Have balancer and standard gears for SRX, in garage. Nothing flash, lightweight or close ratio, but could do a turn in a tight spot! You have the contact if required. 

Other standard SRX bits for a bottom end if needed.

My regards, Bill.

[Steve Lake]

offer noted Bill, ta very much... it'll be the weekend afore i get round to stripping the engine, and sorting out what bits i need, and what bits i have.

[Steve Lake]

OK... lot of water (and beer, wine etc) passed into the ceptic tank since the last report.....
Finally stripped the Tigcraft chassis down, and contacted Dave (Pearce) aka Mr Tigcraft. arranged to drop off chassis with Dave for some much needed TLC (I had a weeks work to do in Guernsey, so drove past Dave's place on my way to the ferry)

I have made a decision (some may say wrongly) to put an SRX6 engine back into the tigcraft chassis, the one from my mono chassis track bike (those in the know will realise that a twinshock motor in a mono chassis has a 10mm chain misalignment.. so this will resolve that problem)... Also Dave tels me that this was his first chassis for an srx engine... it also has plenty more history... winning the supermono series one year... Dave'll put me right on that one.

anyway, the chassis has a few oil weeps and requires an engine mounting bracket replacing which was removed to accomodate Andy's hybrid engine. (so that Dave can get the bracket aligned correctly I also left him with a standard twinshock srx engine bottom end)

once the Chassis is back with me, it should be a 'simple' case of removing the mill from the monoshock bike and building up 'tiggy'
again. This particular engine is of unknown heritage, but i have run it for several years in the mono chassis, and considering the weight of those chassis it has at least as much grunt as the engine i'm taking out.... down side is that i'll be using the standard ignition box, so, apart from a bit od carb tuning what i have is what 'ill have to put up with... but once the whole plot is up and running I will get it down to X-bikes and see if I can blow the dyno again!

I'll pick this thread up again when i get the chassis back from Dave... toodle pip

[themoudie]

Aye Steve,

Delighted to read that your sceptic tank is in good working order! I wish you well with this rebuild,  the bits are still lying dormant, if required from hibernation.

I am still in purdah for not purchasing the Aermacchi SS350 in a 'Drixtonesque' frame with Greeves leading link forks, that might have been an early Benny endurance bike!   But the Duke needs attention and having looked at the swinging arm and rear subframe, they require attention before I go any further. Procrastination!?!

Sad to note that Mick Walker succumbed at the beginning of last month, not before he had written his autobiography, but before it was published. Another generational 'move on' and 'poke' for me to sort the Duke and ride it.

However, today being the last day of summer up here and the Norton Owners coincidentally having a luncheon soiree up the road, both Sally and The Boy Bros, will be arriving with 'NORTON' labels taped to the tanks!

Good health and I hope the grey water system sustains the bountiful harvest from 'The Home County'! 

Toodle pip, Bill.

[Steve Lake]

Hey Bill!
Weather still fine here (as of Monday 7.30 am)... but all efforts are in the garden arena at present (building up brownie points so's i can wangle a round trip to Tigcraft {some 400 miles} to collect 'tiggys' frame)... glad all is well with you...
Guernsey was a beer desert... first time i've had to resort to G&T for a while... oh..and the odd sambuca... (very odd actually)

cheers

[andy230]

Great news steve, keep us posted.

I am sure Dave will make a great job of sorting out the necessaries.

Simpler I think to have a standard-ish motor in there.  Are you keeping the suspension as it was??

Re. history, I think it won the championship in 1991...  the first year of supermono!  Yep, Dave will confirm.

   Ooooh my butchery of that rear engine mount lug....  Hang my head in shame!

Cheers for now mate, glad its moving

a