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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Imperial or Metric - Pros and Cons
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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Holmes" data-source="post: 141887" data-attributes="member: 302"><p>I would not argue with Vic that he has every right to modify his bikes in any way he chooses, a lot of what Vic does I greatly admire, I just find it hard to understand why Vic finds it necessary to make an entire Vincent metric, when it is currently so easy to purchase top quality imperial spanners and fasteners, and it really isn't that difficult to understand the various imperial sizes used, and the spanners that are required, it really isn't, we are not talking Einstein's Theory of Relativity here, a copy of Know Thy Beast tells you all you need to know, what is used and where, and if you fear losing a couple of nuts along the way you can always carry a couple of spares with you, although in 56 years of ownership my journeys have never been halted because nuts have dropped off, although I did once lose a gearbox cover inspection cap, a really nice HRD one. I very much doubt that if the thread had been metric that it would have retained it any better, I recon I just carelessly left it loose. </p><p>I am guilty of being one of those people that has a non standard alternator fitted, but I only fitted it in the knowledge that it is a totally reversible modification, I could revert back to my Miller 6 volt dynamo tomorrow, i didn't even have to carve away any of the crankcase casting to fit it . . . .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peter Holmes, post: 141887, member: 302"] I would not argue with Vic that he has every right to modify his bikes in any way he chooses, a lot of what Vic does I greatly admire, I just find it hard to understand why Vic finds it necessary to make an entire Vincent metric, when it is currently so easy to purchase top quality imperial spanners and fasteners, and it really isn't that difficult to understand the various imperial sizes used, and the spanners that are required, it really isn't, we are not talking Einstein's Theory of Relativity here, a copy of Know Thy Beast tells you all you need to know, what is used and where, and if you fear losing a couple of nuts along the way you can always carry a couple of spares with you, although in 56 years of ownership my journeys have never been halted because nuts have dropped off, although I did once lose a gearbox cover inspection cap, a really nice HRD one. I very much doubt that if the thread had been metric that it would have retained it any better, I recon I just carelessly left it loose. I am guilty of being one of those people that has a non standard alternator fitted, but I only fitted it in the knowledge that it is a totally reversible modification, I could revert back to my Miller 6 volt dynamo tomorrow, i didn't even have to carve away any of the crankcase casting to fit it . . . . [/QUOTE]
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