I must of had enough time off by now.
So it's back to building or in this case rebuilding and hopefully improving.
It will take quite sometime to gather up all of the reference material I need to build the Brough.
While I'm doing that I thought I may as well look at bring the Harley Davidson I build some 11 years ago up to scratch.
I built it as a Boardracer not a street bike and I'd really like to modify it and have it beside the Indian.
It's been sitting gathering dust in the shed for the last seven years.
To say it's not in the best of nick is an understatement!.
We had the bike on display at the St.Arnaud Show when a young boy decided it was just the right size for him.
Which it was but he unfortunately only succeeded in ridding it to the ground, pretty much smashing the engine along with a lot of other parts.
This is the Harley just after it was finished.
This is what I'd like it to look like after it's been repaired and modified (minus the sidecar).
It will be quite a change from the way the bike looks now.
Unfortunately this is the state of the bike at the moment.
As you can see the engine is in a right state, the carburettor is broken off along with the exhaust ports and the barrels are split and rotated.
But it's not all bad news in the photo below I've inserted a picture of a real Harley engine, it's a 1923 version but the layout is very similar.
Although the engines a bit worse for wear, it looks like I'd gotten quite a lot of the detail when I built it.
I'll need to make mudguards for the bike, along with new handle bars, headlight, horn, better rear brake, narrow the petrol tank,
remake the seat, build a rear carrier the list goes on!.
It's a big job but I think the bikes well worth the effort and will look great beside the Indian.
It will make for a good challenge I've never tried to modify something I've built that much before.
Let alone repair that much damage!.
The first thing to do will be to strip the engine from the frame and get to work on the repairs.
It should be fun.
Cheers
Trev.
