Making a start on Heisenburgs frame last night – only to find that the girders he’d bought left a little to be desired. Not one to shy away from a little bit of work he just shrugged his shoulders and decided to make some of his own using the originals as a pattern.

The girders I bought were nasty, no bushing and cheap castings, looks a bit brittle for my liking so a quick trip to see ozzy and score some materials on the cheap, I haven’t paid for this lot yet but it will be a fiver or some biscuits, it’s always a good deal.

I turned the headstock out of the rusty peice of water pipe you see in the last picture and bought some bearings, oh…and some oil-lite bushing to keep it all rocking sweet, blown the budget a little though as now these girders are going to cost well over 20 quid… i was aiming at a fiver….such a dreamer.

I’ll leave these now for a bit as I’m going to build the frame so I’ll wait to see what the ride height is, may aswell weld the pivots when we have more information. H

Found a little time to move forward with this project this week, made the mount for the spring.  Found the spring attached to an old kart abandoned in the wood yard, as you do..

Eye’d it up for size and it’s a little tall but it’s all I have so it will do.

Whilst continuing my scavenging in the wood yard I came accross some ‘wood’, fairly common as it happens so I utilised this new material to produce some award winning girders!

Turns out wood is actualy ‘5h1t’ as a building material for bikes so I moved on to a new material called ‘metal’, (not the same sort the Indians use…)!!  Ok the wood was just to get an idea of scale, but a good idea as it’s really quick to do.

So now we have an idea of scale it’s obvious the spring is way to big and I don’t know how to cut one down so I have ordered one off ebay to suit a mountain bike, second hand unit with 230mm centres made by Marzocchi, looks like a retail price of over a ton so I’m happy at £35, got over an inch of adjustment too, be here in a few days.

I have ‘installed a lump of wood’ in place of the new shock for the time being,  postie has been kind and sent me some new tyres, starting to look good, better than a certain Harley.. so I’m told! (by myself..)

Winning a prize in the Brackley show has become somewhat of a competition between Harley and me, I am a bit worried that my efforts are all in vain as Mac rubs shoulders with all the right people, he is a ‘Hobnobber’, he knows all the winks, nudges, trouser shakes and secret hand signals needed to influence the judges decission, my chances are dire at best.. my only hope is a bribe to the right judge so I’m going to bring out the big guns, I have a bottle of 1986 sloe gin and a signed poster by Rick Astley and I’m not afraid to use them!   Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you…..