Rear brake actuator arm

[Oddjob]

You must have not gone to many shows back then, it was all the rage in the 80s as the bikes grew older and more tatty. I had loads of parts chromed in the 80s, including fork sliders and all the engine casings. Some Kwacks of that era started coming with chromed engine casings, seem to recall the Z1300 was one.

HD lover, how very dare you, can't stand the things. Better suited to ploughing fields IMO.

Clearly you never saw the 500 Benelli six that the drummer out of Slade owned, now that was OTT.

It was Dave Hill and a 750 Benelli six, still around as well.

[K2-K6]

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Dave hill, a chap of some considerable style 

[Laverdaroo]

Considerable is one word for it

[Bryanj]

Ken are you meaning the Massey Davidson or the Harley Ferguson?

[AshimotoK0]

Considerable is one word for it

I like his story that he needed a new house with a bit of privacy to get away from all of the screaming fans. He bought this nice quiet place only to find after he'd bought it that there was a girls school nearby.

[Sesman]

You must have not gone to many shows back then, it was all the rage in the 80s as the bikes grew older and more tatty. I had loads of parts chromed in the 80s, including fork sliders and all the engine casings. Some Kwacks of that era started coming with chromed engine casings, seem to recall the Z1300 was one.

HD lover, how very dare you, can't stand the things. Better suited to ploughing fields IMO.

Clearly you never saw the 500 Benelli six that the drummer out of Slade owned, now that was OTT.

It was Dave Hill and a 750 Benelli six, still around as well.

For the record Dave Hill was not a drummer…..some say he wasn’t a guitarist either, but they would be very wrong. I thought Slade were a good band actually and knocked out some good tunes.

[Oddjob]

Knew that Phil. I thought it was the drummer but after looking it up on Google I noticed it was Dave Hill who was the guitarist. I saw that bike at the Belle Vue bike show around 75-76 IIRC, I seem to recall the colour scheme was different then but I've since read he had 3 sets of paintwork done for it and changed them around every year. It was the most metallic paint I'd ever seen, done by Dream Works, it was so metallic it looked like it would cut your hands if you stroked it.

Either Bryan, HD are the only bike to come with plough attachments on the swinging arm 

[Sesman]

 I knew you would know, but I was thinking of the wider audience….details, details..😀

[Oddjob]

He's still touring as Slade, only one left so he claimed the name. Noddy was thinking of reforming the group for some performances. They are all still alive so it may happen.

[Bryanj]

Why bother, Noddy still says Merry Xmas is his pension fund!

[ebmbiker]

The part on ebay the Sye posted a link to is one of my eBay listings. If you're interested, PM me and I will give you a discount and do post at cost as I won't have yo pay ebay charges.

Thanks for the offer Julie, but your item is far too nice for my project. I’ve found a rusty one that I’ll blast and powder coat.

On the subject of removing casting marks, I do. I filed all the casting marks off the R6 fork lowers and triple clamp before they were powder coated. I don’t like parts to look like a sucked boiled sweet, just tidied up. Which reminds me, I should start a post in the Project section

[Oddjob]

It's like a piece of Chippendale furniture, do you want it still full of dry rot and woodworm or do you want to see it in all it's glory.

Shame, if you wanted a rusty one I had one spare, I like to just muck about with spare parts so I started to tidy it up. Now has no rust, no chrome, no nickel plate, no rough edges, no hammer marks where others had tried to remove it and failed. I'll have it chromed and sell it on after I reckon. Or maybe I'll use it on mine. Not polished yet but still fairly shiny.

[deltarider]

Here is a good example of what I mean by 'satin look' and it's that original look I prefer. The Yanks have a habit of exaggerating and making anything as shiny as a mirror. Every new generation HD comes with more chrome. Not for me. With the satin look the bike looks original and in balance. By going beyond, other parts of the bikel come out imperfect. It will look unbalanced and vulgar like too much make-up. It's a good thing the mirror like look will not last long. All a matter of taste ofcourse

[Oddjob]

So you must hate the police bike James is doing as it's got quite a few unoriginal polished parts.

[Oddjob]

Spotted this the other night when i was trawling for parts on Ebay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203913511655?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D3d5f94b864b74efba6527cb0823cb551%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D294893858854%26itm%3D203913511655%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057%26brand%3DHonda&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A0211aade-bdc2-11ec-8cb4-ca5e170857b1%7Cparentrq%3A3404779a1800a44c1f288d16fffdeaa2%7Ciid%3A1

That's supposed to be NOS but I'll be honest here and say that's an awful finish on it, rough, casting and machining marks all over the place, chrome is pretty poor IMO. However they have plated both sides of the lever.

Saying that I finished the old lever I was mucking about with the other day.

I also found the lever which came off the bike I'm restoring, I must have got it plated by R&S in Manchester when I took some parts to be de-chromed. forgotten about it TBH.

Now compare both of these levers with the NOS one and honestly say you'd prefer that.

Old lever, sanded, polished but not chromed yet.









Newly chromed lever, TBH I don't think there is a lot of difference between the two except the chromed one is shinier.