John H wrote:Yeh, we can have a startup party. The WVM bike show is in April so we will plan one after that.

That would be pretty cool.
I hope to have the sei painted by then, and some other fine tuning done. Took it out saturday, once up to temp it is running really well.

Wow- moving along.

Should be just in time for some ice drag racing…

I have not seen a Vincent on BaT for awhile.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1946-vincent-rapide/

Took a ride to the Ridge today.
A bit icy below the Tunnels, but it sure sounded great going through.

Nice old machine.
They are quite handy to have around. I used to fine tune the closer valve shims on my Ducatis with one- getting closer clearance to zero was pretty easy then (used the stem grinding side).

I have been to the museum- it is fabulous

I was hoping to go this year. But didn’t work out.

https://youtu.be/1C2el5sOMsU

I got my old Alemite spin balancer out to ‘tune up’ the balance. It will spin it up well over 100mph. But the imbalance is showing up about 50-60. It has been quite some time since I’ve used it, so gotta remember how. I learned on one just like this in the 3 hour autoshop in high school. Tube driven...

Just a bit of a ride on the new Moto Storichei pipes.

I may have taken it to 5k rpm once, but really just cruising along. I think around 160 miles on the engine now.

https://youtu.be/lySoHSD-LXY

I got the new pipes.
they fit and look great!
John fixed up my rotors and cleaned up the one rust spot. Thanks so much!