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Old 12-03-2016, 02:54 PM   #1
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Nonnie's Monster

In preparation for WDW2016 and since the bike is long overdue a proper restoration, I decided to strip down Nonnie's bike for a complete ground up rebuild, Pressure is on though as it's got to be ready to roll by the end of June. You can follow the rebuild here, as it saves me posting on several forums.

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Old 12-03-2016, 03:32 PM   #2
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don't talk soft. sling it together and ride it, it's almost spotless
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Old 12-03-2016, 03:36 PM   #3
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I would Rob but it's already stripped down to pretty much the last nut and bolt. Got to get a wiggle on though as there is a heap of stuff to do and lots of corroded parts to repair/replace or make good, all within the next 12 weeks.
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Old 13-03-2016, 07:27 AM   #4
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Good maintaince practice. Occasional refit with a target date . I am sure you will do it with ease.
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Old 13-03-2016, 08:43 AM   #5
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I wrote a ditty about Nonnie's bike some years ago. It got good reviews from the critics, I seem to remember.....................

I couldn't do a job like that in any time period let alone 12 weeks. Very impressive!
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Old 13-03-2016, 02:04 PM   #6
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I wrote a ditty about Nonnie's bike some years ago. It got good reviews from the critics, I seem to remember.....................
I wrote one about my 750 too.
Its gone down well on the few public performances that its had.
Maybe we should make an album of monster tunes ?
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Old 13-04-2016, 08:15 PM   #7
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Coming along nicely. See here for updates: https://www.facebook.com/monster620restoration/
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Maybe you should make a series a la James May's "The Assembler"?
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Maybe you should make a series a la James May's "The Assembler"?
Well it's an inevitably that it will have to go back together at some point. There have been so many threads showing basket cases and the hours and hours of work that go into restoring them back to their original condition. I'm aiming to focus on the re-assembly and cutting out all the work in between, which has been done to a turn by others many times. In essence I have pressed the fast forward button and what's seen is basically a giant jigsaw puzzle of parts, cleaned/prepped/replaced/restored being bolted back together. I'm only 5 weeks in from initially tearing the bike apart, and the engine is almost complete, following a total rebuild, soda blasting, painting and re-assembly, so happy with the rate of progress, since as mentioned, this bike has to be road worthy by the end of June.

The engine should be going back into the newly painted frame within a week Everything else is ready to go. All I have got left to source are some new brake/clutch levers, a few seals, spherical bearings, filler cap and re-fit the fuel pump to the tank and I'm looking at another two weeks to complete it. The engine is going to be test run at Carl Harrison's for three minutes, then the oil and filter will get dumped for fresh stuff. This is to preclude any chance of any remains of the blasting media being left inside, although the cases were cleaned and flushed numerous times before the guts went back in. Best to be safe than sorry.
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Old 22-04-2016, 08:29 PM   #10
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Inching closer to re-assembly now. Six weeks in and about 90% of the prep is done. More info on the FB link.
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Old 29-05-2016, 01:24 PM   #11
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Well almost there. Lots of pictures and descriptions on the FB page but here are a few of the latter stages of the build. Now almost twelve weeks in from the start and about 99% complete. MOT next week and I'm done!!





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Old 29-05-2016, 04:03 PM   #12
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Sexy clocks!
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Cool

Lovely looking build.

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Old 29-05-2016, 06:37 PM   #15
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Looks great and all done in a pretty short time. Well done that man.
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