New Bike in my stable

Post by **Stuart** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:02 pm

Just got back from an auction nr Birmingham in which I bought a Royal Enfield Conversion. The bike, named a Ruggerfield, has an 850cc MD191 engine in it. I was very impresed by the engineering that went into building this bike. The builder, Colin Clake, passed away recently and the bike was one of his many projects. Bidding was tough but I won through in the end

He's a few shots of the bike and various parts of it.
The battery is on charge as I type and tomorrow I start the job of trying to get this thing up and running. It's not run for several years

oldbmw · Post by **oldbmw** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:15 pm

That looks great. I have to say what really brought me to diesel bikes was the centarus 850 twin. not too dissimilar looking. It looks like it might be belt drive? any chance of a picture of teh front downtube?

sbrumby · Post by **sbrumby** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:16 am

Congrats, looks like it will need one of my trailers behind it.

Post by **Byrdman** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:19 am

Congrats Stu, I'm glad to hear that you won the bidding.

Pictures and videos are mandatory!

Post by **Stuart** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:32 pm

I'll put a few more pictures up later.
The good news though is that after connecting the battery and turning the key...it started first time

Well chuffed. Looks like it had just had an oil change, it was that clean

Lights work and the indicators have the warning beepers attached to them like what sounds on reversing lorries/trucks.
All in all I'm pleased as punch

Would have taken me a long time to build something like this.
Clutch plates are a little glazzed I think but that should sort itself with use.

Video of a brief walk around the bike.
http://www.youtube.com/v/EUc5xJdmIg8

http://www.youtube.com/v/DQHoSw1x_-4

Post by **Fiddler** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:07 pm

That looks wonderfully put together mate, are we going to see it at the rally? Never thought I'd see the day when I said beautiful exhaust bracket

Post by **Stuart** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:13 pm

Yes, it's nice exhaust bracket but the silencer itself is a bit big. Might look better with a fishtail job or painted black maybe. No oil leaks or nothing. It's been well put together.
I broke the nipple off the throttle earlier but fixed it. Gonna have to sort myself out some spare cables incase of breakages on long runs abroad

Yep, this bike will be at the Rally come end of May. Gotta MOT the other one first but after tightening up the steering a wee bit I might put this in for one

One thing I noticed, the weight makes this bike hard to stop. I'm gonna have to get used to that I think. Also the foot pegs are a little up in the air like I'm riding a chop or something.

D_Mold · Post by **D_Mold** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:21 pm

That is one of the coolest sounding bikes I've heard! Looks to be made like a tank. I wouldn't change a thing.

palace15 · Post by **palace15** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:21 am

Nice bike Stu, look forward to seeing it out on the road soon!!

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Ih8Suvs · Post by **Ih8Suvs** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:47 am

Looks interesting Stuart. I am working on fitting a Ruggerini MD151 into my Enfield. I may have some questions for you as I get deeper in the project if you don't mind.

Tim

ArnoDeuker · Post by **ArnoDeuker** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:56 pm

For Ruggerini Questions you can ask me..

i think i made all possible mistakes

soome information about it (in german with many pictures) on

http://www.green-ideas.eu/ppp1_html/Ple ... %20und%20P annen1.html
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http://www.green-ideas.eu/ppp2-1_html/ppp2-1.html
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http://www.green-ideas.eu/ppp2-2.html/ppp2-2.html
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http://www.green-ideas.eu/ppp3_html/ppp3.html

and my new project (I'll try to include traductions in English) you can find under

http://www.movegreen.de/component/optio ... og/blogger, ArnoDeuker/Itemid,145/lang,de/

oily greetings

Arno

Ih8Suvs · Post by **Ih8Suvs** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:06 am

Thanks Arno, very helpful. Much appreciated.

Tim

andrewaust · Post by **andrewaust** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:21 pm

Hi Stuart

Hay cool! So you got your hands on it mate, great stuff. Nicely put together like you said. Will be interesting how it compares to the single lunger Stuart, probably apples vs oranges I guess.

Cheer mate

Andrew