OK. I searched for this info before I bought and google did not provide the answers on the day, so I’m adding this info to the web in the hope it will save someone a little bit of hassle. I was ordering a goodridge pressure […]
May 062019
Projects
All of the posts from all of the projects are here.
Dec 222016
Loud pipes save lives after all. I am, as it happens a believer in the mantra that loud pipes save lives. But that aside, I had no real choice when it came to the exhaust system on the shadow. The stock exhaust […]
Aug 072016
After finally getting the Gamma running I took it for a spin with a camera recording the view from the top of the tank…. enjoy This has been on youtube for ages and I only thought to post a link here now.
Jul 082016
To be quite honest I didn’t realise when I got the bike that there was a rear fender “b” to be missing. Fender “b” it turns out is a plastic piece of the rear fender (the main more visible part of the rear fender being […]
Jun 212016
In this the first post of it’s kind for the Shadow I am just going to draw your attention to what would have been a small detail when I was fitting the coolant reserve tank to the frame but because I didn’t have the foresight […]
May 192016
Just in case you had forgotten from this post, the swingarm for the Shadow had not done well in the initial coating process. In fact it had shown how little metal was left in the bottom of the cross member when it was subjected to […]
Jan 042016
Like the buses, you wait an age for one and then 2 come at once… Since I started my Gamma rebuild (a few years ago now) I have never seen another road fit Gamma 125 in the flesh and I have met only one Guy […]
Feb 022015
Part 1. The left hand side casing. So, given that Bikerbabe had requested the Shadow be made black as much as possible, I had allowed that the now just barely silver/grey engine side casings would have to be removed and powder […]
Nov 282014
Apparently I was lucky in that I have an rgr125 Gamma engine that came with a still operating power valve. But that was less to do with luck and more because “back in the day” in Ireland, learner legal bike restrictions where mainly based on […]
Oct 242014
As I mentioned before and will probably mention again, the Shadow was in a right old state for a still running bike. All of the painted parts where showing I suppose what would be an expected level of wear and tear for a bike it’s […]