This is the bike I built………

Link to site with more photos, drawings and build details

Edited By JasonB on 04/10/2013 20:12:25

To be completely honest, I had sort of lost touch with the model world, mostly because of all the bickering over silly stuff,
"this thread is better than that thread or imperial is better than metric"
who cares, I use my own sometime if it works it will do, ( I can here the armchair engineers attempting to rise from there ruts, to hang me but will it be metric or imperial rope,) all this stuff became a distraction so I stopped reading all that rubbish and and got on with it, doing stuff!, making things, "its fun", and if you've read the bike build, you know I needed some respite.
Anyhow I came across the link to these forums whist deleting old links on my computer so I thought Id have a look to see what you lot are making and it occurred to me you might be interested in seeing some of my work, and yes I still build models but some are in 1 to 1 scale, I think most clocks fit this scale, can time be scaled? perhaps with age, or the passing of time ……….
My passion remains bikes but I love anything mechanical, I have a part finished 9F 5 inch gauge, which I will finish in time, and other stuff I play with, some fly some go fast, some go slow and sink, and others just tick, but they all make me smile most of the time……………………..

What did you make this year and most importantly did you have fun trying!!!

Comment questions and criticisms, are always welcome.

Shaun

Don't get me wrong I don't care if someone doesn't like my work or methods, I build the bikes for me, I welcome criticism from better or more experienced people than me, this is how we learn, however from my experience not just in engineering, I find that those who criticise others easily actually achieve the least in actual output, but they do tend to rise through the ranks, I think its because they have great ambition, but cant do it them selves, so they do it on the backs of others, and these types subconsciously support each other, that's why dick heads run the world.

Rant over

Considering the rake the bike actually handles better than I thought it would and is great fun to ride, id describe it as a cruiser with attitude, I've actually just got back from Whitby, went there on the bike this morning for breakfast, whilst the good weather lasts…….

Shaun

Hiya Andrew, it sure was, this year is the best summer I can remember for years.

I built the bike to ride, so that's what I do, although I don't go out in the rain I have been caught out in it once or twice, the clean up takes ages, with regards to scratches etc it will happen, in fact it once fell over in the workshop, the tank took the brunt of the impact, as it crashed against the Clarkson tool and cutter grinder, and just two days before a photo shoot, I had to cut a hole in the bottom to repair it, then repaint it overnight, it was my own fault rushing to move the bike and not checking the stands locked down, but the scariest thing is when riding on motorways other vehicles often come very very close trying to see what it is, but I never have trouble finding it, I just look for the crowd and not just bikers all sorts, I then have to spend ages cleaning all the fingermarks of it once home, but I don't mind really, its just part of it I suppose.

Shaun…….