The Store...

So those of you that have been reading this blog for a while will know that I sell a few things to aid fellow shed lovers!

Hmm, that sounded a bit rude, but what I mean is that if you are building a motorbike at home - you need to stock up on some Homle Valley Customs essentials!!

Take a look at my online shop - http://holmevalleycustoms.bigcartel.com/

I have recently updated it with everything that I sell - individual components, and cost effective sets.

The latest products for your perusal are my aluminium footpegs;

And the latest and best in modern fashion - the Holme Valley Customs T-Shirt!!

So have a look and see if there is anything you fancy. You want something specific/different/custom - drop me an email and I'll do my best :)

holmevalleycustoms@hotmail.co.uk

Tw@tter

So in the interest of being on point with social media - I have started a twitter account for HVC

https://twitter.com/HVCustoms

Go check it out and add me...follow me....re-tweet.... whatever..!?

Done!

BOOM!

So the last few weeks have seen me put the bike back together. Everything has been cleaned/polished/painted/chromed.

My dad has a compressor so we decided to paint it all ourselves. No problem for the black - easy and convenient. But I will never bother with colours again - its far too much hassle. You spend hours rubbing everything down, and then put a coat of paint on and it fucks up for some strange and unknown reason and you have to start all over again.

Anyways its Ancona Blue and Diamond Silver (my dad has an old Beetle so they are both 70's VW colours!) with a gold pinstripe.

I got the bike back together and took it for MOT Saturday - it passed!! So I will be riding it down to the Trip Out this weekend. Come and check it out!

Engine

*Gleam*

Back at it

Finally got some time on the XS this weekend. Moving into my house and generally living it up has kept me away from the shed - especially as its all located up at my parents place! It was good to be back  8)



So after blasting the engine, I gave it a clean with some Jizer, and then carefully hand washed it with some soap to get any crap off.



Then I left it to dry for a few days and masked it up best I could



Cracked out the BBQ paint and went at it...



I was pleased with how it went on - painted really well! I'll keep popping up this week and putting more coats on / turning the engine round to get into all the fiddly places!

Also my dad has got an paint gun and compressor so had a go with the bodywork...



OOooo!!! That's VW's "Diamond Silver". Cant wait to have it back on the road! but I doubt the painting will be finished any time soon ::)

Polishing

Picked these up from Agbrigg Chrome platers in Leeds, £60. (Other rocker covers included). Turned it round in a week, though he rang me after 2 days to say it was done.



Really chuffed with the result! Cant wait to build the bike back up now I have all these polished and chrome parts. Need to pull my finger out and get painting, though house moving issues have slowed things down alot.

It certainly wont be this month :(

Chrome plating

Picked up my Chrome plating on Saturday. I used Agbrigg Chrome platers in Leeds. The bloke there Shaun is a biker too and so pretty sympathetic to our needs! He said that it would be a few weeks, but it only took him one week!! This was most surprising as I had previously rung Prestige platers in Mexborough and they were talking 3-4 months!!!

I wasnt sure on the level of finish that I needed to have the parts in, so most stuff I had done to a fairly high standard myself. He said most people bring things in a lot worse state so I was OK. He has a big polishing and sanding wheel and gave me an idea of the level of finish that he can achieve there too. I also took my stainless pipes in a pretty rough state, and he cleaned and polished them up to a mirror finish. I was so impressed that I took all the other ally covers off the engine for him to do as well.

There is about 20 parts in this box but didnt want to unwrap everything.



The pipes:



This has certainly pulled my completion date forward - just need to paint everything else now!!