Saturday January 25th 2025. Piaggio Velofax. With a bit waggling, wobbling and tapping the engine pivot bolt finally slid into place.   Then Graham mimicked a choke cable using a piece of electrical wire.  Then once the carburettor had been checked for cleanliness it was time to see if it would start.  After three or four kicks it sprang into life for the first time in more than four years.  It was quite raucous without its exhaust but ran and idled perfectly.  During that four year period a new piston was obtained to replace the original that had been lost.  The replacement came from another similar model and seemed to be doing the job just fine.  Graham made a paper base gasket and a broken reed valve had to be obtained.  The tip of the original reed valve had broken off.  As genuine replacements were not available the services of a company making carbon fibre reed valves were enlisted, in order to make a new one using the original a...

  Saturday January 11th 2025. Kawasaki 550. AJ came in armed with the resprayed fuel tank and side panels looking resplendent in a metallic shade of burgundy.  AJ, Jack and John spent time during the session working to complete the electrical system, fit the new fuel tap and fit the newly resprayed fuel tank and side panels.  Next session would be the time to finally get the carburettors balanced once and for and all. Kawasaki 550 limited looking good with its resprayed paintwork. Motobi moped. Now that the intermittent stalling and difficult starting issue had been resolved with a new spark plug it was time to see if we could find out why the lights weren’t working.  Graham assisted Jose to take the headlight and the little light switch apart to try and fathom why there were no lights.  It was found that there were six volts being fed to the light switch and to the headlight.  We then realised that the headlight needed to be earthed on its brackets and hey...