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Hello folks, this bit of my "Bike Build" is a repeat of a post I put up on caimag a couple of weeks ago. I will update them both as (hopefully) the bike comes together.
As I said in my intro I am a guy from England with a new Harley Davidson project.
I acquired the project a few weeks ago through an unlikely set of circumstances. I had not been looking for a new bike project because I have another one, the Matchless, that I was intending to start about now. I was certainly not expecting to get a Harley, HD's dont have a wide following in the Uk and are not that popular. Of all the bikes I expected to get I would say that a Harley was the very last on the list.
It cam with a sidecar and even lower on my list of thing that I want (if you can get lower than the bottom) is a sidecar or "chair" as us Brits call them sometimes.
Funny how fate takes you to unexpected places!
Here is the "bike" when I got it home.
Here is the chair.
Here are the documents etc that came with it.
Like I said in my intro, it needs a bit of work. I have build a basket case up previously (the 1938/9 Triumph 5T in my intro) which I think was harder than this one will be. This one, despite appearances, seems to be mostly complete.
The bike was first registered in the UK in May 1921 but it has a 1920 number on it.
The bike was purchased by a guy in 1988 after the bike had sat for many years in a shed which had a leaking roof. This guy stripped the bike down seemingly with the intention of fixing it up but did not get too far.
What he did do was send the engine, gearbox, clutch, magneto & carburettor to William Healing Restorations or Bill Healing as he seems to be known as. He seems to have been a very well known engine specialist for American bikes here in the UK. I have the invoices for this work and the come to £3,544. Thats English pounds in 1988/89. In todays money using an inflation calculator it is the equivalent of £8,496 in todays money or $12,939 US dollars at todays exchange rate. Thats quite a bill for engine work.
Here is a pic:
The engine, gearbox etc have had everything done to them (I will post details at a later time) and were kept inside a house since 1989 so I am hoping that there will be a minimal amount of work to do to them.
The rest of the bike has had almost nothing done.
The sidecar has had a new body made.
The guy who took the bike apart put every fastener back onto the parts that they held together and sub assemblies were put in small containers and labeled. There are even some original tools out of the tool box in a can marked "contents of tool box". He also took over 100 photos which came with the document. I have scanned them all for reference because there are lots of detail pics.
Continued due to picture limit.
As I said in my intro I am a guy from England with a new Harley Davidson project.
I acquired the project a few weeks ago through an unlikely set of circumstances. I had not been looking for a new bike project because I have another one, the Matchless, that I was intending to start about now. I was certainly not expecting to get a Harley, HD's dont have a wide following in the Uk and are not that popular. Of all the bikes I expected to get I would say that a Harley was the very last on the list.
It cam with a sidecar and even lower on my list of thing that I want (if you can get lower than the bottom) is a sidecar or "chair" as us Brits call them sometimes.
Funny how fate takes you to unexpected places!
Here is the "bike" when I got it home.
Here is the chair.
Here are the documents etc that came with it.
Like I said in my intro, it needs a bit of work. I have build a basket case up previously (the 1938/9 Triumph 5T in my intro) which I think was harder than this one will be. This one, despite appearances, seems to be mostly complete.
The bike was first registered in the UK in May 1921 but it has a 1920 number on it.
The bike was purchased by a guy in 1988 after the bike had sat for many years in a shed which had a leaking roof. This guy stripped the bike down seemingly with the intention of fixing it up but did not get too far.
What he did do was send the engine, gearbox, clutch, magneto & carburettor to William Healing Restorations or Bill Healing as he seems to be known as. He seems to have been a very well known engine specialist for American bikes here in the UK. I have the invoices for this work and the come to £3,544. Thats English pounds in 1988/89. In todays money using an inflation calculator it is the equivalent of £8,496 in todays money or $12,939 US dollars at todays exchange rate. Thats quite a bill for engine work.
Here is a pic:
The engine, gearbox etc have had everything done to them (I will post details at a later time) and were kept inside a house since 1989 so I am hoping that there will be a minimal amount of work to do to them.
The rest of the bike has had almost nothing done.
The sidecar has had a new body made.
The guy who took the bike apart put every fastener back onto the parts that they held together and sub assemblies were put in small containers and labeled. There are even some original tools out of the tool box in a can marked "contents of tool box". He also took over 100 photos which came with the document. I have scanned them all for reference because there are lots of detail pics.
Continued due to picture limit.
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