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The centrestand on my Pantah is so easy to use and its all down to its curved feet bottoms, great aplication.
 
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What a great idea! Radius looks perfect. Is garage time in Canada always done so smartly dressed?
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son Marc has always been a snappy dresser. A bit of a personal branding thing. Bow ties, beautiful clothes, surgical gloves while working on things. He turned it into a brand as "Dapper Detail", doing concierge and high end detailing on high end cars since he was 17.He has all the top line detailing equipment, but started getting away from the detailing a few years ago, as around here it is sort a seasonal thing, most of the fancy cars get detailed in the fall when they go away for winter storage, then again in the spring when they come out of storage, makes for a lean winter income and required something for the winter. That got him into brokering high end cars, finding specific cars, negotiating the inspections and purchases and shipping etc., often for his high end detailing clients. He has been with Aston Martin/Bentley for a couple of years now, natural fit, as many of his long term high end detailing clients are buyers and sellers and owners of multiple Bentleys, Aston's, and various other exotics. He keeps turning up at my place with various flashy cars, most recently a Rolls Royce Phantom, absolutely enormous car, I swear it was bigger than my Range Rover..... He tells me it gets great gas mileage:rolleyes:
 

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finished center stand adaptation. Goes on to the center stand easily and back wheel is maybe and inch and a half or so off the ground. Satisfied as a prototype solution while I decide if I am going to stay with the longer than original shocks or go back to original length shocks.

Bike going for its required registration mechanical inspection Friday so I can insure and road register it. Putted down the road with it, carb is a mile off, but it moves under its own power. Just emailed Sudco to ask what they can supply for a suitable modern carb as it seems the needle/needle jet etc I need for the old carb isn't readily available, I tried various suppliers. Anyone have any suggestions for a suitable replacement modern carb and supplier?
 

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so quick response from Sudco that they do not offer custom jetting for the Mikuni VM18, that there is only one needle jet size, and they can't supply air filter or throttle cable. I then went back and forth with them on a selection of needles, mains, and pilots and am waiting on the final parts list and invoice. I am going to charge ahead, in the dark, and try and make a VM 18 work on the Gilera. There aren't a lot of other options when I can't get the needle or needle jet for the stock carb anywhere near the size required, and the originals are so heavily worn.

EDIT - ordered the VM18 Mikuni and a selection of needles and jets from Sudco
 
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Bike looks beautiful Paul. You've done a brilliant job. I doubt it would have looked that good when it left the factory.

That workshop floor looks like it's perfectly designed to trap dirt. How do you keep it clean? And what happens if you drop a tiny little screw that can fall down between the bars in the mesh? Do you have to disassemble the floor to retrieve it? That's assuming you saw where it went in the first place.
 
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Bike looks beautiful Paul. You've done a brilliant job. I doubt it would have looked that good when it left the factory.

That workshop floor looks like it's perfectly designed to trap dirt. How do you keep it clean? And what happens if you drop a tiny little screw that can fall down between the bars in the mesh? Do you have to disassemble the floor to retrieve it? That's assuming you saw where it went in the first place.
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the floor I had in my garage before the fire was solid 4 foot by 6 foot interlocking sheets of 1.5 inch rubber. Loved it. When the Bentley went up in flames in the garage, the bloody rubber floor caught fire. CoVid, China, supply chain issues, I could not obtain the rubber floor material again so had to go with my second choice. The current floor is heavy duty, used in large aircraft hangars etc, can drive fork lifts and big air craft on it. Use jacks and jack stands on it. The mesh is a plus and a minus. Fluids fall right through which is great and flow out on hte slope to the end of the garage. I do occassionaly lose small fasteners into it, no big deal if steel as I just run a magnet over the floor and they leap up on to the magnet, but as I use mostly stainless steel which are not magnetic that does not work, but I have cases of fasteners so if I lose a washer or a nut no big deal I don't even bother looking. The floor unclips very quicky, either individual panels or big sections. I just unclip most of a single garage bay section, drag it out into the driveway, pressure wash the underlying concrete floor (which is expoxy sealed) and pressure wash the floor section, then drag the section back into place. I like the floor, your footing is always clean, no dust or dirt. I have damaged a couple of individual panels with the welder and oxy/acetylene, no big deal I bought lots of extra panels and just clip new panels into place.

dropped off the Gilera off for its required government regisration mechanical inspection, should be able to insure and register it soon.
 
I got a reply from VAPE about their advance curves. Their Business Manager said "We are sorry but we do not provide curves recorded in Control unit."

I replied to them saying "your product is little better than useless if you do not provide information that’s essential to the user".
To be fair, he did ask how much advance I wanted at what revs so that he could suggest a dip switch setting, but that's not really a lot of help to someone who doesn't know what advance they need.

So, if anyone reading this is looking for an aftermarket ignition and you want to play around with advance curves, choose an ignition other than VAPE.
 
Dellortoman said:
I got a reply from VAPE about their advance curves. Their Business Manager said "We are sorry but we do not provide curves recorded in Control unit."

I replied to them saying "your product is little better than useless if you do not provide information that’s essential to the user".
To be fair, he did ask how much advance I wanted at what revs so that he could suggest a dip switch setting, but that's not really a lot of help to someone who doesn't know what advance they need.

So, if anyone reading this is looking for an aftermarket ignition and you want to play around with advance curves, choose an ignition other than VAPE.
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Particularly on a machine fitted with points, be it auto or even better, manual advance.

Paul
 
the 1957 Gilera 150 Sport passed the government required mechancial inspection with a perfect score and compliments from the inspector who wrote on the form "Perfect Work"..

My sincere thanks everyone for all the help so far, with a special thanks to Cam!!

Now I need to get the carb sorted as soon as I get my historical licence plate on Monday and can test ride on the street. Shipping notice from Sudco on the new carb and selection of tuning jets/needles etc says expected delivery June 27 (as long as not held up in customs) so I am going to see what I can do to try and get the existing Dellorto MA 18 carb driveable while I wait for the new carb. As I can't get a replacement for the worn needle (worn thinner and missing a chunk so ridiculously rich) I am scheming up a plan to build up the severely worn needle profile with JB Weld..... :eek::sneaky:;)
 
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Paul LeClair said:
the 1957 Gilera 150 Sport passed the government required mechancial inspection with a perfect score and compliments from the inspector who wrote on the form "Perfect Work"..

My sincere thanks everyone for all the help so far, with a special thanks to Cam!!

Now I need to get the carb sorted as soon as I get my historical licence plate on Monday and can test ride on the street. Shipping notice from Sudco on the new carb and selection of tuning jets/needles etc says expected delivery June 27 (as long as not held up in customs) so I am going to see what I can do to try and get the existing Dellorto MA 18 carb driveable while I wait for the new carb. As I can't get a replacement for the worn needle (worn thinner and missing a chunk so ridiculously rich) I am scheming up a plan to build up the severely worn needle profile with JB Weld..... :eek::sneaky:;)
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Make sure that your JB weld doesn't end up between the piston and the liner.

Paul
 
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