Hello. My name is Jon and I was born and raised in Thundersley, a few hundred yards from Church Road where the venerable Mr Greeves worked his magic.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have been gifted a 1965 Scottish by a relative in Yorkshire. I don’t know which model it is, I’m not picking it up for a couple of weeks yet. Attached is the only picture I have of it. As you can probably imagine, I’m very excited.
I’m not a complete novice at bike fettling, I’ve been caring for an ‘81 BMW R100 airhead for the last 12 years, even stripping it down and rebuilding it about six years ago. But I’m no expert either, and couldn’t have done any of it with the help of the amazing chaps on the BM Bikes forum. I’m hoping to find the same guidance and patience here for the Greeves. One thing I do know is there’s no where near the amount of online information - YouTube videos etc - around as there is for an airhead.
The Greeves has been sitting in my wife’s uncles garage for about 15 years, but I believe he had it properly prepared for the lay up by a professional. Any advice about what I’m likely to need to do to get it running again would be most welcome. I’m guessing a carb rebuild and obviously oil, plugs, etc, and probably fuel lines, fork oil, tyres, chain… oooh I’m scaring myself now! Any ideas what else? Rubber bits maybe?
I know nothing about two strokes, in fact my mechanical knowledge doesn’t extend beyond my old airhead. Is there even a workshop manual available? I can’t find one on eBay.
Thanks for accepting me onto the forum. You may regret it
Jon.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have been gifted a 1965 Scottish by a relative in Yorkshire. I don’t know which model it is, I’m not picking it up for a couple of weeks yet. Attached is the only picture I have of it. As you can probably imagine, I’m very excited.
I’m not a complete novice at bike fettling, I’ve been caring for an ‘81 BMW R100 airhead for the last 12 years, even stripping it down and rebuilding it about six years ago. But I’m no expert either, and couldn’t have done any of it with the help of the amazing chaps on the BM Bikes forum. I’m hoping to find the same guidance and patience here for the Greeves. One thing I do know is there’s no where near the amount of online information - YouTube videos etc - around as there is for an airhead.
The Greeves has been sitting in my wife’s uncles garage for about 15 years, but I believe he had it properly prepared for the lay up by a professional. Any advice about what I’m likely to need to do to get it running again would be most welcome. I’m guessing a carb rebuild and obviously oil, plugs, etc, and probably fuel lines, fork oil, tyres, chain… oooh I’m scaring myself now! Any ideas what else? Rubber bits maybe?
I know nothing about two strokes, in fact my mechanical knowledge doesn’t extend beyond my old airhead. Is there even a workshop manual available? I can’t find one on eBay.
Thanks for accepting me onto the forum. You may regret it
Jon.
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