Jeandr wrote:

mcvic750 wrote:...You need a big garage and workshop somewhere really quiet where nothing happens to distract you. Your going to Belgium, this is perfect !!!

As if they have no beer in Belgium

Jean

That's right, no beer, no frites, no mayonnaise and no classic bike racing

mcvic750 wrote:You’ll have your bike finished in no time. You need a big garage and workshop somewhere really quiet where nothing happens to distract you. Your going to Belgium, this is perfect !!!
Cheers
Keith

Hi Keith,
Eek, those look expensive! (I didn't even bother to search for the price on the website!)
As for Belgium, I should add I'm moving back on a part time basis, I lived there before for 5 years. Despite the county's reputation for being boring I can't think of anywhere better in Europe to go out and get drunk in, the problem is most car drivers think the same every weekend!
Belgium has a very good classic bike scene, with large autojumbles and world famous racing (Chimay for example) which is much more than down here in South West France.
The downside, the roads (around Brussels at least) are sh*t and the weather is worse! As I figure I'll be spending about 50% of the month in France and the other 50% in Belgium, hopefully I'll get the best of both worlds. Also, perhaps more importantly, I'll have lots more cash to "invest" in my bikes

All the best

Webby

When you have cans of Tenants lager & The wee heavy none of your foreign beers impress, chips & mayo I can probably live without!! and then I watched the start of the F1 Grand Prix season today and thought of Spa-Francorchamps, at this point I would like to apologize unreservedly to the Belgian Nation for previous comments. A couple of laps there would let you know if your Tritons rake angle was good

Cheers
McVic

found this today its a featherbead stop like in the above picture

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Steering ... 1c1a87fb96

bwolfie wrote:found this today its a featherbead stop like in the above picture

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Steering ... 1c1a87fb96

No, that is a damper, the fork stop is a plate bolted to the frame just below the steering head.

Jean

Thanks for that bwolfie. It is indeed the part I was talking about in the above post. However since that post I have spoken to RGM (They are always really helpful) who stock the part at a reasonable price and while it will fit my earlier yokes they didn’t see how I would fit it successfully to my commando frame .

Thanks
McVic

No, that is a damper, the fork stop is a plate bolted to the frame just below the steering head.

Jean

OK now I’m confused again. I thought that was the steering stop as in the picture of the Triton below. That plate stops on the black stop lugs on the underside of the bottom yoke. I spoke to RGM last week and understood there where two similar plates. One which accommodated the through the steering head damper and one that didn’t.





These look the same

When you said "the fork stop is a plate bolted to the frame just below the steering head" Do you mean below the steering head or below the bottom yoke?



If it works vaguely like this below the steering head on a Norton I would be really interested in seeing a photo if you have one.

Thanks
McVic

Not a good picture, but see the plate bolted right below the steering head, that is what you need.



Jean

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