Cob special MK2

[sohoeasy]

Here's a preview of the Cob Mk2 (Pics of MK1 posted ages back) rolling frame now ( bent and brazed by Mark at WASP) 900cc ground up build ,crankshaft by Dave Nourish but the frame will also take a Weslake 1000 (planned for Cob Mk3- stand by your beds !). More in six months, should have a tank at least by then Same seat as MK1 though,can you place it ? :cheer:


Mk1 has never been road registerer,this one's SVA will be making VOSA a few bob though. -

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[daytona-supersport]

I've just wet myself. :laugh:
Looks bloody lovely. Nice one mate. (thumbs)

[The Sarge]

Stunning, looking forward to seeing it finished (thumbs)

[AndyB]

I thought Dave Nourish would have retired at least 20 years ago because he was knocking on a bit when I had him balance a crank for a race engine in the mid '80s. Lovely bloke who knew everything there was to know about making Nortons go fast (thumbs)

[placky2]

wow! looks sooooooooooo good.

[sohoeasy]

I thought Dave Nourish would have retired at least 20 years ago because he was knocking on a bit when I had him balance a crank for a race engine in the mid '80s. Lovely bloke who knew everything there was to know about making Nortons go fast (thumbs)

Dave retired and sold the name on to an outfit in Essex about five years back. Before he did,he made five final crankshafts two of which are in Cob's mk1 & Mk2. The others went as spares to international customers. He'll be around 88/89 yrs old now. I took some video of the old machinery and workshop before he shut up shop.we'll never see the likes of it again.
(here's MK1)

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[sohoeasy]

I've just wet myself. :laugh:
Looks bloody lovely. Nice one mate. (thumbs)

Don't "Nice one" me mate ! :laugh:

I'm only the person that sits on it with a pair of bars pretending we're at Pykes Peak already . It'll be finished when my good friend :whistle: Johnny B feels like working on it ! (thumbs)

In between times. I've just spent ten hours changing the discs all round on my transit,which is supposed to be only a four hour job ? So why would I want to waste an entire weekend fettling bikes instead ? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ( 2hrs mind, was probably wasted trying to read the Haynes manual through the oily finger marks I'd plastered all over it.)

[sohoeasy]

Picked uo from exhaust fabricator today, driving up to Telford dirt bike show with it Saturday where it'll be transferred afterwards to Wasps again to have a tank made, (couldn't be done without the pipes and carbs in place first)

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[soho]

We took it for SVA approval last Christmas eve, and it failed on a number of (mostly safety related ) issues.
Now though, it's finally on a 19 plate and JB has moved on to another project now ? A 50cc Kreidler racer !!

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