Hi All.
I have just joined the Association and this Forum as I am hoping to get some help and advice from the members. The bike is a Hawkstone, frame number 59/1803. Where can I find the engine number?
I bought it in 2009, it was running (just!) but was in a very poor way having been thrashed near to death in the motocross events at Mark Tey etc with little or no maintenance. I took the engine to NameTab Engineering for a new cylinder lining, piston etc and repairs to the gearbox. The cylinder and head are from Marcelle and I believe it is a 250cc version. I then fitted a new Amal replacement carb as the old one was was on the point of disintegrating, replacement rear shocks from NJB and new front suspension rubbers (metalastic?) from Adrian Dickenson. The ignition is some kind of electronic unit.
At that point in 2010 we moved to Norfolk and I had never even started or run in the motor. In 2015 we moved back to Suffolk (near Stowmarket) and the bike continued in dry storage here until last week.
There seemed to be a good spark and a lot of compression. So I put a couple of squirts of EasyStart in the carb and my neighbour (fortunately a big chap) kicked the bike over a few times. To our amazement it started and ran but there was a big petrol leak from the fuel tap so we stopped it for now for further repairs. I have those fuel bits on order from Villiers Services but I need to sort the brakes and kill switch out so that hopefully the bike can re enter the East Anglian motocross races again.
Cheers
Ray
I have just joined the Association and this Forum as I am hoping to get some help and advice from the members. The bike is a Hawkstone, frame number 59/1803. Where can I find the engine number?
I bought it in 2009, it was running (just!) but was in a very poor way having been thrashed near to death in the motocross events at Mark Tey etc with little or no maintenance. I took the engine to NameTab Engineering for a new cylinder lining, piston etc and repairs to the gearbox. The cylinder and head are from Marcelle and I believe it is a 250cc version. I then fitted a new Amal replacement carb as the old one was was on the point of disintegrating, replacement rear shocks from NJB and new front suspension rubbers (metalastic?) from Adrian Dickenson. The ignition is some kind of electronic unit.
At that point in 2010 we moved to Norfolk and I had never even started or run in the motor. In 2015 we moved back to Suffolk (near Stowmarket) and the bike continued in dry storage here until last week.
There seemed to be a good spark and a lot of compression. So I put a couple of squirts of EasyStart in the carb and my neighbour (fortunately a big chap) kicked the bike over a few times. To our amazement it started and ran but there was a big petrol leak from the fuel tap so we stopped it for now for further repairs. I have those fuel bits on order from Villiers Services but I need to sort the brakes and kill switch out so that hopefully the bike can re enter the East Anglian motocross races again.
Cheers
Ray
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