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Fabulous project. Totally agree with all you said about "Bobbers" and the dread side plate. And those wonderful old mudguards...how could anyone discard or alter those gems? Inconceivable!

To be fair, contemporary road tests did mention fractured brackets and high rev vibrations. Having said that I did enjoy my A65s

The only other thing "i feel " in my years of playing with these things is the high loading of the valve guides Those valves, the angle and thus the loading were the "thoughts of those times " that's the only thing I would change on mine a "flatter piston " and those valve guides I adjusted the chain on my daily driver after 600km might even look at the points one day ,,,, the reliability of these things is bordering on boredom levels !

I appreciate these regular updates. I may be the latest A65 convert, and am eager to learn ;)

Which do you consider being the most durable option for upgrading A65 conrods Paul, please? Forged steel as supplied by Carillo and Hepolite or those machined form 7 series alloy as supplied by SRM and others?

I love them, help my son Gareth completely restore one a few years back, he's now waiting for me to visit next year to check her over. Love your video thanks for sharing my best wishes to you from the Philippines ❤️💪👍😉😀😁🏁🛺🏍️🐑🇵🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Wow that's nice to see beautiful video thanks for sharing your work with us, my best wishes to you from the Philippines ❤️💪👍😉😀😁🏁🛺🏍️🐑🇵🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

G'day Paul, l wonder 🤔 if they are making a fish ladder to aid upstream travel for the 🐟, hope it doesn't restrict the flow when in flood as this could change the displacement on normal flood plains, causing unusual flood patterns, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.

It would seem that this has done little since it was last apart.

Really enjoy watching the A65 work. And the rest of course. Have a 1970 Firebird. Hope we see the finished 350 BSA. All the best Pat W

Those mudguards are things of beauty. Best of luck getting it back on the road

G'day Paul, the Engine is in the right hands, be interesting what you think 🤔 of each motor when you have done all the work required, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.

G'day Paul, you must be able to strip an A65 motor down with your eyes closed, still always interesting seeing your process, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.

This is greatly anticipated as a new A65 owner, hope you don`t find any `guilty secrets` in there ;)

I have been hospitalized twice by cars turning in on me. Both times it was a good day and my headlights were on. Never had this happen when my lights where off Soo i reckon riding with your lights on only encourages them to try and kill us.

My T160 was wet sumping in short time and i had to remove the exhaust system to get to the sump plate( even with a single plug) hated to do it but removed the non working spring vavle and replaced it with an oil tank valve from L P Williams

Hopefully straightforward, but all the fancy mods make it far from routine. What is it used for? Vintage road race sidecars spring to mind, as do flat track bikes. I know that some flat track racing was done at both King's Lynn and Scunthorpe speedways. Our young 'un broke an ankle whilst in the lead at Scunthorpe a few years back.

All the fish that live in the sea and spawn in freshwater are under pressure (lampreys included) from the effects of climate change (among other man-made problems). That includes sewin of course, for which the Towy and its side streams are famous. I wonder if the smaller river has been widened and/or dredged in your lifetime Paul? Dredging has done terrible damage to rivers and fish habitat right across the UK in the past (still going on in some places) and it has caused increased flooding risk in some places too, guttering the water away instead of allowing it to be held back a bit. Hopefully they’ll get rid of that small weir while they’re doing the ‘rocks in the river’ thing. OK, on with the A65 now? Watching with interest. Les

Nice....

Thanks Paul.

Do we need more lampreys? Horrible, parasitic things in my book.

Is that a load of weld above the timing side main?

An "easy," one. 🤔🧐 Here's hoping.

So a prehistoric fish that has survived until now needs human intervention.🤔🤔🤔.

Beauty! What about doing just an hour a week on it, that would make a great series.

I rode one of these round and round the fields as a youngster, it just kept going. My dad ordered the scrapman to take it away, so I tried my best to break it before he arrived, but I couldn`t!

New test area for any off-roaders you may work on?

So, they’re going to dump rocks in a small river that already floods on a regular basis?

Hmmm…I’m thinking in terms of how much of a problem it would be for Roman soldiers to ford that river with no bridge as the “barbarians” would be firing missiles, arrows and spears…

Very good!

Very informative and crystal clear as usual!

Nice, well done Paul.

Maybe a red hunter

Good old thing.

Looks like a 1953 vb 600 there is one for sale on ebay at the moment

my old dad had a cose relitive of that a morris minor hbx 638

It's a VG500. I have a '49 year. Twin port 500 single with a bronze head. Lovely bike.

Be nice see that up and running good video 👍

Brings back memories- My Uncle had one- same colour- he would ride in a long gabardine trench coat, gauntlets & a pudding basin helmet.

This is the first D1 that i have seen apart from the colour Scheme (mine was red and black) to be exactly the same build as my old 62 D1 Bantam.

D3. I bought.

It may be a 150cc Debbie with that rear suspension like the first motorcycle insurance bought. Please let me know

Great looking bike Paul. I used to have an 4F 600 Square Four from 1933 and the front mudguard looked like older version of yours. They were "de lux" mudguards, not every Ariel had them. Do you have an instrument panel, to complete it and make it work proved impossible in communist Poland during eighties.

G'day Paul, that's a great barn find and in almost original condition, l would like too come across a find like that, wonder if it will survive the Grandkids treatment, one of my mates bought a A10 BSA that had not been started for 30 years, after a service and clean a few good kicks and it started, it amazed me, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.

G'day Paul, l hope your able too find the time to restore that wonderful Arial 500 it needs to survive, I'm a purest when it comes to classic bikes, that's your protect you do it your way, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.

To nice for a field bike

Smashing!

Hi Paul. The FBX registration series started in May 1949 and was registered in Carmarthenshire according to a book I have !

💯% agree with side mounted number plates...ruins the symmetry.

Too good for a sacrificial 'field bike'