Sunday, February 17, 2008
New carb replaced
OK, I tried out the PWK carb and it just wasn't working as well as I had hoped so I have ordered and received an Amal Mk1 which will get put on this week. I'll see how it goes.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
new carb
OK, its been awhile and now I am starting to realise April 2008 isn't that far away!
Nothing much to report really except the arrival and fitment of a new carburettor from JRC Engineering in USA. It is a PWK 30mm one adapted for Enfield Bullets (and other bikes of similarish ilk). So far so good but need to check to see if the standard 40 pilot and 140 main jets are too rich.
Apart from an accident requiring new handlebar, footpeg, clutch lever, and gear linkages repaired nothing else much has happened.
Next thing will be to get the new piston in (from JP Pistons in Oz) and polish the con rod and inside of the crank case. Plus fit a remote head oil filter...hmm...the list is going on.
Next update likely in January as we're all off on family holiday back to Blighty for Xmas and New Year.
Nothing much to report really except the arrival and fitment of a new carburettor from JRC Engineering in USA. It is a PWK 30mm one adapted for Enfield Bullets (and other bikes of similarish ilk). So far so good but need to check to see if the standard 40 pilot and 140 main jets are too rich.
Apart from an accident requiring new handlebar, footpeg, clutch lever, and gear linkages repaired nothing else much has happened.
Next thing will be to get the new piston in (from JP Pistons in Oz) and polish the con rod and inside of the crank case. Plus fit a remote head oil filter...hmm...the list is going on.
Next update likely in January as we're all off on family holiday back to Blighty for Xmas and New Year.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Helmet Camera hassles
To record some video of the trip I bought a bullet style helmet camera. This attaches to a camcorder which will be either in the tank bag or in the minirucksack. I only bought the bullet camera itself and its power pack thinking I could get the actual camcorder here in HK....but could I?
No way! All the new camcorders do not have AV in and the ones that do seem not to be able to record direct to the tape...oh yes, it is DV tape media that I want to record onto! Why? Because all the current fashionable uptodate tecchy crap like DVD and HDD are useless when it comes to dealing with vibrations (HDD - the head of the hard disk drive keeps 'losing' data and tries to restart or stops recording until reset; DVD - only holds 30 minutes per disk). So now what? Not yet sure apart from being very frustrated with the camcorder companies and maybe
having to find an older model item which can be found online.
Fed up with it....but something will turn up even if I have to strap the complete bastard camcorder to my head.
No way! All the new camcorders do not have AV in and the ones that do seem not to be able to record direct to the tape...oh yes, it is DV tape media that I want to record onto! Why? Because all the current fashionable uptodate tecchy crap like DVD and HDD are useless when it comes to dealing with vibrations (HDD - the head of the hard disk drive keeps 'losing' data and tries to restart or stops recording until reset; DVD - only holds 30 minutes per disk). So now what? Not yet sure apart from being very frustrated with the camcorder companies and maybe
having to find an older model item which can be found online.
Fed up with it....but something will turn up even if I have to strap the complete bastard camcorder to my head.
Monday, May 28, 2007
New Seat
A new seat has arrived. The old one is a triangularish shaped bit of metal plate with foam cover and some kind of vinyl/leather on top of that. So...to the new seat. The metal plate is replaced by 14 long springs and 7 short ones which provide a bit more bounce as well as more forgiving to anatomical shape. I ordered it in Grandissimo Fatarse size which should fit....all that's left to do is install it.
Update 17th Feb '08 - the new seat was replaced in turn by a foam filled dual seat. This one is waaay to hard and the sprung saddle will go back on it. Lets put it this way, I thought I'd ridden over a small tree on the road only to find it was a toothpick!
Update 17th Feb '08 - the new seat was replaced in turn by a foam filled dual seat. This one is waaay to hard and the sprung saddle will go back on it. Lets put it this way, I thought I'd ridden over a small tree on the road only to find it was a toothpick!
Monday, May 7, 2007
First steps to Enfielding
Here is where the bloggy bits start for the Enfield.hk site.
This blog will be used as an easy way to log my movements whilst on the actual trip. What trip?? The one where I start off from Vladivostok and make my way across Russia all the way to St. Petersberg and then head south to Europe through Belarus (want to see the factory where they make The Minsk) and then Poland (want to see the factory where they make Bison Grass Vodka...a rather nice tipple!) and then to the Czech Republic (want to see the place where part of my genes come from; although I have been there before but it will be nice to go again) and then to Germany (want to see the BMW motorcycle factory so I can take the piss out of their high-tech machinery) and then to France (want to see some friends who moved there a couple of years ago as well as visit Sword Beach where my dad landed in 1944) and then across the English Channel to UK where I will end the trip in Durness as a symbolic end-of-land-kind-of-thing but actually Edinburgh will be the end proper.
That's it. All the why's and other technical stuff etc will be on the site proper www.enfield.hk but as things are quite far away from happening there won't be too much on this blogger site. This is mainly going to be reserved for positional updates and other stuff like that as I go along on the road.
The bike? An Indian made Royal Enfield Bullet 500cc which was made in 2001 but looks like it stepped out of 1960...it only has a kick start, reliable but sweaty in HK's summer heat.
This blog will be used as an easy way to log my movements whilst on the actual trip. What trip?? The one where I start off from Vladivostok and make my way across Russia all the way to St. Petersberg and then head south to Europe through Belarus (want to see the factory where they make The Minsk) and then Poland (want to see the factory where they make Bison Grass Vodka...a rather nice tipple!) and then to the Czech Republic (want to see the place where part of my genes come from; although I have been there before but it will be nice to go again) and then to Germany (want to see the BMW motorcycle factory so I can take the piss out of their high-tech machinery) and then to France (want to see some friends who moved there a couple of years ago as well as visit Sword Beach where my dad landed in 1944) and then across the English Channel to UK where I will end the trip in Durness as a symbolic end-of-land-kind-of-thing but actually Edinburgh will be the end proper.
That's it. All the why's and other technical stuff etc will be on the site proper www.enfield.hk but as things are quite far away from happening there won't be too much on this blogger site. This is mainly going to be reserved for positional updates and other stuff like that as I go along on the road.
The bike? An Indian made Royal Enfield Bullet 500cc which was made in 2001 but looks like it stepped out of 1960...it only has a kick start, reliable but sweaty in HK's summer heat.
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