Happy Eastern to all

As yesterday was first Wednesday in the month and weather was good, though very cold, close to zero degree C, I thought there would be motorcycles gathering at the biker Cafe up the valleys as they do trough the riding season.

Well I was wrong, came there, slightly cold but spirit high, NONE bikes seen, hmm. Whilst there talking to some camping guests 4 more bikes arrived, 4 modern Harleys.
Kind of cool, mine "not so dirty nine" and them, seventy years apart, still all Milwaukee Iron.

That is kind of cool, only Harleys seems to be ridden this early in the season, where are all them Beemer GS`s??

To maintain balance in life

Things are falling together, even with my panhead engine.

It was due time to get the crank assembled, balanced and trued. As this is a task where skill and experience is highly required, I found time was right to get external help.

Vegard is one modest guy with great knowledge based on hands-on experience as well as theoretical know how. He builds engines of great performance combined with reliability, which is hard to combine for most. His 45"`s are both strong runners, I`ll never forget "the green one", sidecar equipped and with a monkey on board ascend the A-bomber hill climb at full throttle some years ago.
Knowing I have more Harley engines coming up for rebuild I managed to convince Vegard in a combined happening, "help with engine" and education in crank balancing and truing.
I convinced Vegard in the educational part by promising him it would save him a lot of future work, a win win situation for the both of us?

Long story short, my crank is now balanced to a 60% factor and my bearing races are true within 1/100 of a mill., need to get some rollers now for them bearings to complete the bottom end.

Thanks a lot Vegard for a long night of work and for your patience with both my crank and all my weird questions.

Cases welded

Finally got all them chips broken off case bolt holes re-welded and machined.

Keep it all straight

Years ago I came across a rod straightening jig, that is one cool tool that every home should have.

Vulgar or not??

Havent decided yet, if the look of hub caps look great or vulgar. For sure adding hubcaps will make the hub greasing procedure a nightmare.
Anyone got an idea of how to extend the grease point to acess without having to tear down the entire hub cap?

"Gutta på tur" (on tour)

This is a great shot of some early NMK members on tour. As this picture is most likely captured approx 1916-17 it is even more interesting, will need to find some names on these gentlemen.

Spring is coming closer

Yeah, it feels so god, had my old "not so dirty nine" out for a 100Kms ride the other day. Back roads have no snow now, but still plenty of sand, better be on alert.

Yes that is correct, all that white stuff along the road is SNOW!