Hi , some pics of my last project: a Seeley commando with some JS stuff inside (engine is on the bench...!)



that's a yamaha R6 front end with a virago front whee
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close pic of the wheel

Excellent starting point.

When is your target date to finish?

Hi Paul, no idea,as everybody it's more a question of cash than time (I am retired now), I had bought the frame via a fellow in UK (it's a Barber 's one) a year ago, as I had several parts lying there in the shed , I could start to think about , three years ago I had bought the pistons and rods from Jim Schmidt, and this Christmas , Ihad offered to me the stage one cam and followers from Jim........so you see it's a long time project
I had the gearbox new from RGM, and it's a 4 speed close ratio, much cheaper than any other , but less efficient than the TT industries, a friend of mine made me a clutch through a Ducati pile of spares and it became a belt drive unit as well, as said the forks are yamaha R6 as the rotors , but the wheel is from a Virago , the calipers are small Brembo from a T Max, rear wheel is the obvious Triumph T140.
I had the opportunity to find a decent Maney cylinder at a fair price, then with an Atlas crank dismantled to save the cheeks a friend of mine made a flywheel from steel billet looking like the maney one (bell shaped), the crank go to UK two weeks ago , when I had the opportunity to cross the Channel ,to be dynamically balanced to 70% ( Basset Down).
We beed to modify the bolt pattern on the 750 head "ala"850, cause the 750 maney jugs are like this (thank you to Jim Comstock and Ken canaga for their advises on this subject).........a kind of never ending story , and many times when I felt trapped in a no way situation, I had found good support on this forum , or through my fellow of the NOC in France.

That sounds VERY interesting!

Keep up the pace.

...or pick it up a notch! hee hee

Any bits & bobs I can pass your way to fill in a hole in the project? I'm building up a smallish pile of spares...

Easy to go tubeless with that front rim. Looks like a nice project.

Jean

Hi Jean et merci!
yes through the front tubeless rim I will save the weight I will lost through the "massive" front hub (or I hope!)...Pierre

Looking Good Pierre!
Also, you live in a nice part of the county to enjoy a bike like that, it should be great on those twisty roads in Bretagne.

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