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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
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<blockquote data-quote="Chris.R" data-source="post: 97402" data-attributes="member: 4043"><p>Wow!!!!! I have a 1954 C, Comet TVK960 unknown to the VOC register until I bought her, she has not been on the road in nearly 30 years, last taxed in 1989, then in a museum sitting on a new Avon Speedmaster front and a new Dunlop K70 rear both are scrap due to age. The wheel size for both is 3.50/19". I am gathering that the front only would have been a 20", at some time the two Dunlop rims must have been fitted these are in need of refurbishment. I am minded to have the existing rims re-chromed and red/black lined and then rebuilt, of course I have to find someone to do the rebuilding and the red/black lining, do I put in new spokes or have those I have re-plated, I gather there are several grades of chrome. What finish will be compatible with the age of the machine should the spokes be chrome?, I do not want to change the old girl too much, that is I am not able to produce a concours machine but would like to leave her in a state where she could be moved closer to that condition by someone else in years to come. Just as the present owner Ken Phelps has with the 1951 C, Comet NKN112 I last owned in 1968 and now in Australia.</p><p>Carshalton Chris.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris.R, post: 97402, member: 4043"] Wow!!!!! I have a 1954 C, Comet TVK960 unknown to the VOC register until I bought her, she has not been on the road in nearly 30 years, last taxed in 1989, then in a museum sitting on a new Avon Speedmaster front and a new Dunlop K70 rear both are scrap due to age. The wheel size for both is 3.50/19". I am gathering that the front only would have been a 20", at some time the two Dunlop rims must have been fitted these are in need of refurbishment. I am minded to have the existing rims re-chromed and red/black lined and then rebuilt, of course I have to find someone to do the rebuilding and the red/black lining, do I put in new spokes or have those I have re-plated, I gather there are several grades of chrome. What finish will be compatible with the age of the machine should the spokes be chrome?, I do not want to change the old girl too much, that is I am not able to produce a concours machine but would like to leave her in a state where she could be moved closer to that condition by someone else in years to come. Just as the present owner Ken Phelps has with the 1951 C, Comet NKN112 I last owned in 1968 and now in Australia. Carshalton Chris. [/QUOTE]
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