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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Standard Comet Special
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<blockquote data-quote="Oldhaven" data-source="post: 81285" data-attributes="member: 2879"><p>I have a new one that arrived from Australia this last Friday. The one that came with the cases looks OK and has zero side and end play, but I have not checked it for runout. It looks to be either all over polished or perhaps even chromed, hard to tell. I decided to go with new everywhere except for a few necessary frame attachment parts since there was nothing in or on the cases except the magneto studs and I could match the flywheel and the top end from the same maker. I will be keeping the VOC spares company and Coventry Spares busy. It is times like this that makes me realize how fortunate we are with our choice of machine, since if I had decided to rebuild my old 750 GT I would have had considerable difficulty and much more expense than doing this Comet special basically from scratch. I have to agree with Bill's advice to only keep Vincents so you can swap things around. I also feel I am not doing anything sacreligious with the Comet cases since they have had considerable repair work done and would never have become an original bike again.</p><p></p><p>Here is one of David's UFM's on a twin. There are no rear seat shock mount tubes as on a normal Egli type frame, and the seat can be cantilevered. The RFM is more Vincent like but it will be used with a coil over:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]16223[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldhaven, post: 81285, member: 2879"] I have a new one that arrived from Australia this last Friday. The one that came with the cases looks OK and has zero side and end play, but I have not checked it for runout. It looks to be either all over polished or perhaps even chromed, hard to tell. I decided to go with new everywhere except for a few necessary frame attachment parts since there was nothing in or on the cases except the magneto studs and I could match the flywheel and the top end from the same maker. I will be keeping the VOC spares company and Coventry Spares busy. It is times like this that makes me realize how fortunate we are with our choice of machine, since if I had decided to rebuild my old 750 GT I would have had considerable difficulty and much more expense than doing this Comet special basically from scratch. I have to agree with Bill's advice to only keep Vincents so you can swap things around. I also feel I am not doing anything sacreligious with the Comet cases since they have had considerable repair work done and would never have become an original bike again. Here is one of David's UFM's on a twin. There are no rear seat shock mount tubes as on a normal Egli type frame, and the seat can be cantilevered. The RFM is more Vincent like but it will be used with a coil over: [ATTACH=full]16223[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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