Show us what you did today, thread

[RobMac]

Thanks for sharing Jamie

 

[jonthefish]

Good aurora pics Jamie. Here in Lochaber it was cloudy when ever I went out, just for a change.

Re Caithness - can you advise if there is anywhere in the world with more ticks per square yard than Limekiln Wood at Reay? I did a job there last year and came back with 112 of the wee bu___rs attached and dug in. I'd swept off 1000s during the day. Never seen the likes. Previous Caithness job we got rained on with volcanic ash. I could go off Caithness, but liking your pics - the coast is great and the big skies.....

Back to bikes - it stopped raining today! Took a wee trundle down Rhu Arisaig this evening. Just a nice end to an otherwise crap day. And the gloaming is back. Hooray for spring and bikes.

 

[epicyclo]

Took my 1937 Silver Sunbeam out for a trundle

Once were woods...







Contrast old v new. 1937 Sunbeam versus 2014 Eagle mangler.





Nearly home




Don't suppose anyone has a chaincase cover disk for a Sunbeam?

 

[RobMac]

Epicyclo looking at your last couple of pics do you stay near Dingwall?
Cracking pics BTW.

 

[epicyclo]

In Dingwall

 

[dyna-ti]

A nice looking bike that Sunbeam ,did you restore it yourself ?

 

[kaiser]

Whats the bike? Looks like a nice beasty.

 

[epicyclo]

A nice looking bike that Sunbeam ,did you restore it yourself ?

I've always liked the lines of Sunbeams.

It's not restored. Just the oily rag wipe over making it look better than it is.

Except the back wheel. That's NOS

The brakes are 1950s though - I like being able to stop.

I'll be making a few more mods in character - basically the sort of thing an original owner would have done over the next 20 years, hence the 50s brakes.

 

[velomaniac]

I will confess most vintage roadsters look the same to me and thus find it difficult to single out the lines of a Sunbeam over a Rudge, Humber, Raleigh, Pashley or even New Gerard the Edinburgh make I'd like to clap eyes on.
That said its a style of bike I like lots and they are very comfy if somewhat/very heavy.

 

[kaiser]

I must admit I am intrigued....maybe one of you two should start a thread in road bikes or general? A 'Show us yer roadster' thread.