Hey everyone,
Welcome to Motorcycle Mentor. In this KZread series, I'm going to cover all of the ins and outs surrounding motorcycle maintenance. This is a series which is designed to help novice motorcyclists understand their machines and the basics of essential maintenance. I will be sharing my 45 years of experience to help motorcyclists of all skill levels to do basic motorcycle maintenance and repairs.
MOTORCYCLE MENTOR: A simple step by step guide to motorcycle maintenance.
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Sorry about the side stand 🤦🏻♂️! Just another occasion where I’ve leant upon you for BSA support😊. Will send ££ for the repairs 👍🏻
The tank liner was “Petseal” I think . I do love the shape of that old Triumph tank 😢… the oil additive “Molyslip” ?
I thought it was quite funny actually. Too bad we didn't have more bikes in line falling like dominos.
Nice one wuss
The thumbnail to this is taken from the 1968 film " IF " starring Malcolm McDowell. he is seen here stealing the BSA from a bike dealer. it was filmed in and around my home town of Cheltenham. there was a motorcycle dealer in Cheltenham called H&L's with bikes like this that i would dream of owning one day, then i discovered cars.
Indeed it is. A great film.
Is the clutch slipping
quite badly too!
Sure is.
New plates on the list- I re-used the old ones just to get it going.
❤Legendary camerawork !! 😂
Beautiful blue sky and golden sands. Time to sell my portfolio and move there. Obviously no shortage of boozers. His. Burp. Phwarppppppppp
so many shades of green in the types of grass, as opposed to the uniform colour of the tarmac🤣
This a video of what? A piece of tarmac, and a mumbling voice.
Never employ an intoxicated cameraman 😂
Good tip about using the clutch lever to pop the primary cover off I hadn't seen that before A ring spanner will remove your spark plugs if you can't find a box spanner Don't forget if your son finds a zenor diode it has to be the right polarity I'm your a65 is positive earth
In Yorkshire UK it stands for bloody sore arse.
My first bike was a Beezer" we in America finally know what BSA stands for ---- 🤔 ---- .... B'astard S'talled A'gain. 🛠 🤗
In Essex we call it "bits stuck anywhere "
In order to use the "wide" crank and fit a thrust washer on the timing side, the left-side case must be machined down. Yours appears to be "as cast" meaning it should have the narrow crank, ball main bearing, and no thrust washer. You are correct that the right-side case is machined differently and uses a different, thicker timing side bush when using the ball main bearing. While a later roller crank and case can be easily swapped to ball, doing a ball-to-roller swap isn't as straightforward.
Yep narrow crank and roller main- it's a 67. The timing side main was not in properly I discovered hence the lack of lock in for the thrust washer. I re-seated the main brg and a lovely fit now- see later videos.
I prefer a good freshen up over a restoration myself 👍
Well done , inspiring to see rusty remains being returned to useable machinery in a shed . Real world restoration that is within reach of us willing but poor motorcyclists . 👏👏
Namecheck 👍
Looking good Frank - maybe spray the frame as is - keep it bare metal. Nice of Rob to drop off a donor bike. Ha. Looks like wifey’s shed is history too.
Think I’ve just spotted my missing screwdriver
Keep the chrome bits chrome it will have tones of characters and originality. Painting them black will look awful, in my opinion. Look forward to seeing the progress
Includes the familiar phrase "... and it did catch fire once"
Ooh shiny progress, how very exciting. You must do a video of your technique for bringing corroded metal back to shine., and perhaps episodes dedicated to individual steps in the resurrection. Whats next ?
Wow, not too bad all things considered. What about the nut that holds the handlebars, sure that’s missing! Tube of autosol in the post - 1st class naturally.
What an exciting rebirth :: I can’t wait for the next instalment Was it taken off the road due to lack of tyre tread ?
No one has ever taken a bike off the road cos tyres are a bit thin!
@@highdownmartin Yet the rest of the bike looks so pristine, what other reason could there possibly be ? 🙂
@@Thunderbolt6fifty many years ago. (1981?) I bought an A10 combo with a great chair for 90 quid. We were told it was the clutch that stopped it. When the head and barrels was off there was about 1/4” up and down play on the left hand rod. I dont think it was the clutch!
As requested one beautifully reset Albert. It’s like winding the clock back to the late 80’s when I first saw it . Thank you !!!
A pleasure old chap, so good to see it up and almost running. Just add fuel and oil.
Excellent work Mr K 👏👏. Cant wait for pt3 🤞🏻
Very atypical Scottish weather , your toils are hugely appreciated . Great to see Albert being refreshed 👍👍
Nice
Too bad you threw your bay city rollers platform shoes away. 😅
What a wimpy bike
Need bigger soles on those boots 😉
I need a bigger everything Kev old chap. This thing is a torque monster like nothing else I've ever ridden- scary but I absolutely love it.
I love the way you guys you have a perfectly restored bike and you go well it's got a little imperfection here and imperfection there you know and it's like I'm thinking I wish the hell my motorcycles look half as good as that. Of course I run the wheels off of them. Of course we don't really have a winter in Florida we got cold but not like you're dealing with snow and slush and sleet and all that crap. I like the nice big fenders the British bikes used to have because they keep crap off you you're in California you could have no Fender that's okay cuz it don't rain in sunny California which is maybe why they're running out of water and they can only take one shower a month.
You guys in England are so lucky you have access to people who know your bike and parts where is over here the situation is reversed and everybody does the Harley thing. Don't get me wrong I have a Sportster with 400,000 miles on her and I've had her 20 plus years she was my bike besides my trumpet. But I love my British motorcycles. Nothing rides better except for a BMW Airhead. If BSA and Triumph was still around making the price they used to make under Heritage Classic model labels whatever they would sell every bike they could make. When I ride one of my 250 BSA singles in the slow lane on the interstate at 65 miles an hour people will slow down next to me and stick their camera phone out the window recording me because I am on such a cool bike. I can park it next to a row of $50,000 CVO Harley's and everybody is going on about what a cool old British bike I have. And they were cool and they are cool and the new bikes don't even come close. They're like a Honda with a Triumph sticker on it. If I wanted a Honda I would buy a Honda and I bought three brand new they were good bikes until the day they died and then you couldn't fix them and you just do them in the junkyard. British motorcycles are rebuildable forever and you don't need $10,000 worth of electronic tools or a computer to tell you what's wrong with the motorcycle either. When I go to a Harley Shop with my Euro sidecar rig everybody video tapes me kick-starting her and my bike is the first year they made them for 70 years Kickstart only halfway through 99 they put the electric starter on it but I like to use the kicker that is a proper way you start a motorcycle not with a pussy button not with the remote control going blue bloop and certainly not with a credit card in your pocket because you're too lazy to even turn the key. They would probably have to Google how to start one of my motorcycles and that is just so pathetic I just don't have words. Merry Christmas happy New Year sorry for the ranch I'm on my pain pills I got right over by a dump truck but I'm not dead yet anyways haha
After I got my first little motorcycle looking for a bigger one I checked at the Honda shop that sold Honda Triumph and BMW. In the 70s the Triumph prices were getting crazy the 76 Triumph was 1995 277 Triumph was 2695 or 1978 Triumph with 2995 and they were all basically the same bike but in one year or two it went up 50% in price. I know that was due to the pound but that just killed Triumph sales. The oil frame triumphs with the early 5-speed boxes and a transmission were a disaster. The shopping list of defects I don't need to go into here they are all well known just like the Norton Commando and the t160 Triumph trident. In the 60s the bikes were damn near perfect low warranty claims Triumph was putting out 700 bikes a week. BSA sold every motorcycle they could build. They didn't think the picture would sell and it sold out so fast they thought about they made another run in it sold out so fast they should have kept making runs until people stop buying them. Two-stroke engines are good for nasty things like scooters and weed wackers but they get tiring they are so hard to ride to deal with where is the four stroke you just plunk along. And all the fantastic job bikes where the hell did they go in a museum or a junkyard. I love it when I see British bike shows from the UK and the bikes in the parking lot are 10 times more interesting than the motorcycles they have in the show. You see gold stars with current license plates you know damn well that that's somebody's bike that they really ride enough to put it on cover instead of just putting it in a glass case for everybody to ooh and a h h at. In the 1920s a bro Superior was the top of the line motorcycle. You can buy an Austin seven for the same price or you can buy two Triumph 500 twins. And when you saw a brush Superior with a sidecar with two kids in the sidecar and the guy's wife standing next to him you know the guy is a committed motorcycle list. Can you imagine what those bikes would be worth if those families still had them? But I'd rather see them used and enjoyed. The kids in those sidecars will have lots of happy memories of writing with their dad on the bike while they're in the Sidecar. I know if I had a kid and I took him to school he wouldn't be riding in some minivan he being a little leather jacket and he be in the Sidecar when I drop him off for school. To the Envy of all the other kids because he would have a cool dad with a Cool Motorcycle. Bikes are cool cars drool.
When you have a pretty bike keeping it pretty becomes more important than riding it. I have tens of thousands of miles on everything I own except for one or two basket cases I bought. I would come across motorcycle orphans that were unwanted and unloved and I would give them a forever home just like any of the dogs I rescued. It pays to go around to the swap meet because you never know what you might find. I went to one and I was talking with this guy sitting on his Harley about my 250 BSA one of my bikes. This guy overheard me and at another swap meet he ran into me and showed me a picture of a beautiful 67 C15 6000 original miles everything there but the side panel that somebody took off for the battery 95% complete nothing stuck nothing Frozen everything rolls. All original matching numbers. My mechanic buddy was jealous as well as my chaplain buddy from the writers of my post. My mechanic buddy said man I wish something like that had fallen into my lap and I said well I told you about the swap meet you could have gone. The one time I had a little bit extra money something nice came my way. I can't wait to polish that tank up and put that bike on the road and shame the Harley Riders had a 250 keeps up with them.
I bought a BSA Chopper 650 for $500 running. The electrical wiring was a mess and the car was clogged up except for the idles yet so it would start but not run. I had to try off guy clean the car rewire it took one ride on it and I did not like the hinge in the middle feeling with the long Springer front end. I sold it to An Outlaw Biker and I saw him on a Harley and I asked him what happened to the BSA I thought maybe it got wrecked and he said no I have to have a Harley-Davidson for Club functions but nothing in the rules says anything that I can't have more than one motorcycle and I just love my BSA. The only thing stuck on the bike was the motor everything else is custom. It found a good home.
Everybody bad Mouse the quality of British motorcycles. I have found that if they are properly maintained not abused and not take it to a monkey for mechanic they tend to last for decades giving good service and only requiring wearing parts to be replaced. There is just something about these bikes that makes you go the extra mile. The camshafts in my Triumph TR6 lasted 50 years God knows how many miles. The slut strap was almost but not quite fall so instead of cleaning it threw it away and bought another one not going to spend an hour on a $7 piece. People who don't own and ride a British motorcycle don't know what they are missing out on. Even a little 250 like my C15 is a nice little bike that handles two people two up and has plenty of throttle left over. Now if I want to go 90 miles an hour I use a bigger motorcycle. Zillow 250 learner bikes for perfect for people to learn how to ride on. Not too fast not too slow and you learned how to take a clutch apart to put on a new sprocket on the front and you learned how to take care of the points and you learned how to clean the carburetor all knowledge you would use when you get a bigger pie and you would look back finally on your 250 as the price to introduce you to the pleasure of two wheels. Sorry the phone doesn't translate too well. Except that it worked go figure. Beautiful BSA. I like to single car version of the 650s because it's much easier to deal with and I put a lot of the vibration problems that people complain about is because the carbs are out of synchronization. Just like my singles nice and easy happy New Years from America
Hey Motorcycle Mentor , fancy a collaboration? A BSA owner with confidence issues following illness, and a bike that needs minor fettling to get him on the road ? Might be worth some minutes of celluloid ?
Might be a bit of fun- lets do it. When I bring the trumpy over, I'll ride down and start the production.
The speedo face was actually designed and printed by brother Rupert and of course he couldn't resist adding some remarks. Speedo was one I took off an old CB 550.
Love how you channel the artist formally known as Prince by moving out through the in door
Love it, what a beauty
Think it’s time you went back to work Franko, I’ve never seen you with a clean and polished bike, let alone two!
How do think a 2019 Bonneville 865 will compare. Triumph have progressed a little since the 70's I reckon.
The only slight wee thing is that the new Triumphs are actually Hinckleys and have no connection to the original Triumphs which no longer exist. Good bikes though but not as good as enfields.
That’s 2 chicken tikka, 1 vindaloo and some Bombay mix please
I prefer Indian to Thai!
Super video . Looking forward to the On-the-Road edition. Hope it includes helmet cam commentary and engine notes . Meanwhile if Triumph feels neglected , you have my address :-)
Excellent, I was going to build a very similar bike years ago, I still have the frame, I am putting a spare T100 motor together at the moment, it might just end up in a hard tail frame, I will be following your progress with great interest.
That’s going to be a fab bike. Excellent. Clock came out well.
Good one M&M
Good stuff old man - Keep em coming
This is exactly what we need , thank you Frank . You have viewers in the UK and I shall encourage pals in NZ to come along .👍🏻