To me, this looks like the head of a strange golf club, but I know now that it's called a quadrant. HH ordered parts from Stewart Engineering and due to the magic of magic, it arrived with all it's friends, and they're all now in the old Sunbeam mentioned in the title. He started disassembly yesterday, and today finished reassembly with new parts installed. I think the least fun part is scraping off all the old gasket. He cleaned up the old broken and worn quadrant and gave it to me. Right now it's holding pens on the kitchen table, which we don't often use for dining.
I knew I'd need a reminder, so I took a photo of his parts list.
On the other hand, this window gasket is waiting to be installed on a very warm sunny day.
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What an excellent use for a worn out Sunbeam quadrant!
I spent yesterday's rainy morning "playing with" a Honda CBF250 (2007) which I recently bought, having sold on the Sinnis. It was an excellent buy and too good to miss since it had been owned by an "elderly gentleman" who had lavished care on it. New tyres, new battery, new chain and sprockets and all polished to perfection. I told the dealer that an "elderly gentleman" was buying it, so it should feel at home and cared for.
It even had the "optional" centre stand, which I feel is essential for checking tyres, chains, etc.
Fitted a Givi (it had the Givi rack) mini extendable soft tail bag, fixed a battery trickle charger terminal and a front fender mud flap. (Why do all these modern bikes have such short front guards - mud just sprays up and plasters the engine and rider!
Happy days - the sun shines today..............
Brilliant! HH is out testing the Sunbeam right now. We have sun, too! Maybe the sun shines all over today. It's Pi day, 3.14, so people are promoting pies, like strawberry rhubarb pie.
Is the Givi bag so you can carry tools and lunch and a thermos, or all that and your helmet, too? My bicycle came with no front fender, but it's got a nice one now. What color is your CBF250? Doesn't matter. Whatever color it's a good looking bike, shaped mostly like a motorcycle.
Hey! How'd it get so late. Lovely to see you. I'm going to put up pictures of motorcycles next, after the Sunbeam returns from its test run.
Never tried strawberry and rhubarb pie (or anything else of that mix) - perhaps I should live a little!
The new baby is silver, well preserved. The rear carrier bag is quite small - just for tools, camera, phone and spare specs. With room for a pair of lightweight waterproof trousers. You can see it at: https://www.kappamoto.com/Soft-Luggage/Tail-bags/LH203R
Hope the Sunbeam survived HH's ministrations
I showed him your new bike, and he says we don't have those here, but he also admires its good looks, and probably more technical things, too. We have too many rules, so manufacturers aren't keen to satisfy all the US specs. I'll bet you knew that. I wouldn't for a minute think a bike owned by an older gentleman lavishing care would be anything but well preserved. Did I tell you he sol the BSA Lightning? Another case of an older gentleman with meticulous attention to his bike.
Your bag looks nice. If you look at the next set of photos there's the bags on the Sunbeam, which look a bit bigger than your Kappamoto tail bag. I think he keeps a warm sweater in there, and tools in the sturdy little leather bag in front of it. You can see it survived the attention, because photos are after the test drive.
Strawberry rhubarb pie was my dad's favorite. How do you feel about gooseberry pie? A piece of pie is a good thing to share!
I misspelled "sold". He "sold the BSA Lightning." He didn't mean to. There it was, just sitting there, and someone made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Gooseberry pie, one of my favourites! my old grandma used to feed me them.
If I ate pie anymore, I'd want it to be either rhubarb or gooseberry. Yum!
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