Andy's KSS - Motor Is Out !

 When Andy had his KSS in the shed last, I found lots of things that needed repair. 

  It's drive side main bearing had seized, spun on the main shaft, hammered against the case and cracked it, and hammered against the flywheel, wearing a big groove in it. Also the cam and cam followers needed resurfacing , and loads of other things that made it not ideal if he intended on riding it at all. 

  First thing for me to do was pull the engine out of the KSS , and completely strip it, and carefully inspect the bits for what repairs were needed. 

Photos of Andy's KSS

I took a few photos of Andy's KSS, before I took it apart for rebuild.  

Andy Brought Parts !

When I asked Andy what he did on his KSS in the two years he had it back, he said  'nothing' ,

But in fact he had been sourcing parts for his bike,  a lot of parts !  

Status of the workshop - Andy is back !

Status of my Velocette workshop -

Andy from San Francisco was up yesterday. He drove up to drop off his 1937? Velocette KSS for me to resume work on it, from where I had left off. Andy's bike was one of the many I had to send back unfinished, when my depression hit, and I became unable to do the work, and had shut the shop down. I told him if, and when I recover, and felt up to working again, that I would let him know. Andy waited two years for me to be able to get back on his bike, to bring it back to life for him.

I am very much pacing myself now, and allowing myself lots of time for my hobbies, like musical instruments, photography, cooking, arm chair travel via the internet, art, drawing, and much more - so much so that I believe working on the motorcycles will be my hobby, rather then the others.

When I started drinking coffee again - five cups a day, the following day my depression was completely gone. The power of coffee, and caffeine - and the kindness and understanding of my customers who took their bikes away, allowing me to recover. The depression I believe was a combination of overwhelming amount of bikes, and work in the shed, the shop accident with my bench press falling on me, burn-out - I've had the shop and doing this for 39 years - since 1987 , and I had stopped drinking coffee because of heart issues - I was drinking 25 cups a day -

I am looking forward to helping Dave Smith getting his MAC project sorted, and other projects I had to stop work on - but not all at once !