Well Max is right, there has been a lot of technical interchange that I have left out of the mix, clearances, peculiarities, explanations of why things were done and advice. A lot of that was mixed with financial exchanges, Max sending money.... so that is why there seemed to be a few jumps and answers with no questions.... But the photos tell the story of the work going into this one last attempt.
Well I'll try to give y'all a little more of the mix from now on as time permits. On this side of the pond Max has been working on a pushbar, body mounts and new sidecar cover.
Max sent this to the Vincent group a couple of days ago
Here are a few pictures of the new push bar for 2012. I finally came to the conclusion that pushing the bike up to around 40 mph would be the way to go. It was probably just a macho thing on my part to be able to say that "My liner drives off. Doesn't need any push". Well the fact is that it can, and has many times, but the clutch takes a beating in doing so.
The first picture shows the aluminum roller, which is the push contact point. Above that there are two pull cables, these cables satisfy the scrutineers, as one pull cable is for a fire bottle in the engine compartment, and the other is a fire bottle that can be released externally for the cockpit compartment. There are two switches on the left hand side of the push bar at the extreme rear. These electrical toggle switches control the master electrical circuit and the water pump circuit. On the right hand side of the push bar is the engine breather hose. The catch can still utilizes the inch and a half chrome moly tubing frame. The two drains are still located in the same place. The fastening points of the push bar are all complete, except for one, not shown. When finished, there will be eight fastening points, push bar to frame.
The battery is dedicated to the AEM data system we are installing to monitor air fuel ratios and exhaust gas temperatures in each cylinder.