Hitchcocks Forum

Hi guys---------- have just finished a top-end overhaul and hopefully this is a link to a short video from Photobucket}----- -------------- or maybe not !!!

Well done Alan, Link and bike working well. Proper job me ansome. whats happening with the ampmeter then? Lots of movement. Is the alt wiring phased ok? or chinese meter.

Nice one Alan, my mate Nel his amp gage goes like that ios a 1993

nice vid alan ,good job some people are cleaver enough to put videos on here!!i like your black exhaust might do that with the voodoo bugger electra grunda 13 i think i,m going to make a small loud silencer at work,i thought the amp meter was the rev counter not got my specs on though!!! atb paul.

Hi guys---- thanks for the positive response. The silencer is a shortened "Long-Tom" standard one with a quick spray coat of exhaust black.... The Ammeter "flick" has always been like that at idling---goes quite stable under normal running though.... The vid. took a very Lo---------------------------------ong time to load up onto Photobucket and it was pure luck rather than skill that got it on here. Paul, if you listen closely you can hear----amongst all the other noises----- those rockers of yours doing the business !!! During the coming season thhis will gradually be turned into a "Look-alike" Army despatch riders machine (Desesrt Rats theme). ---- Will keep you posted on progress etc with photo updates but it is planned to be over a 12 to 18 month span as I have 1000&1 other things to do before my final garage arrives !!!

ammeter flick at slow tickover is normal....Points opening and closing or electronic box of bits doing what it is supposed to....Almost a mental rev counter if you look at it long enough....could even be the basis for a homebrew revcounter by one the cleverer than me folks here?...........I gave up long time ago using Photobucket for video, Youtube or Vimeo for me

Hi BSA BRYAN----yes, it takes too long to load up from your files-----------I only did this one as an experiment but like you say, will use YOO_TOOB in future..........Next stop is to fit the solo saddle and army panniers.

hi alan ,just fitted my new sprung saddle on my electra semi bob ,did away with the chrome springs and mounted it on newly welded brackets,hopefully the crankbuilder will have my hitchcocks big end & rod fitted by the weekend,i,ve got to tax it tomorrow so i want it on the road asap with its new big bore downpipe & stage1 kit,if its any good i may go the full hog cams etc maybe the fastest 500 leanburn in the west riding,i may even call it an indian big head with its pent roof rocker boxes they are simular!!
atb paul