Show us your garage/workshop

[Yorick]

I might not have the best garage, but I have the best sign. A pal made it for my birthday from lava rock..

 

[robnchris]

Been there too, bought a very nice DB34 Goldstar couple of years ago, but found I could barely start it, let alone ride it, looked great indoors, sold it.

There has always been a knack to starting a British single machine, don't think any two are the same, Lots of guys have fitted an electric start to the Goldstars to get around that problem.

 

[robnchris]

My garage is precast concrete and I’m going to insulate it with double foil, double bubble insulation and then clad in plywood or OSB board.
would you fix the insulation to the concrete walls or would you fix it to the plywood before fixing to the battens.
Also which would you use the OSB board or plywood?
Thanks,
John.
Ps I’m thinking of buying this to put in the garage when finished.
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Nice bike tried and tested but will require lots of TLC, personally I would go for a bike that took the BSA into the future.
A kawasaki W650. Doesn't leak oil, button start but also has a kickstart, totally reliable and a joy to ride.

 

[C33JAY]

Ah, but, the bike is in the big garage? So what's kept in the small garage?
Phil

The Bike can Live in either Garage it sat in the Double Garage only whilst I painted the floor in the Small Garage, I did put ground Anchors in both so it can live securely in either.

 

[Stealaway]

I like two strokes.

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[Garfields]

We could start a debate on how to keep garages dry in winter
Do you heat or vent
Dehumidify or not
Personally I go with ventilation and just heat when I am in there
Do get a bit dampness when weather goes from frost to rain quickly
Dampness disappears over a day or so

I'm not putting up a picture of mine as it would make Stealaway s look tidy

 

[olley]

Got a two stroke, Gilera 125cc Scooter 2004 must be one of the last built. Under 4000 miles on the clock, keep thinking about selling it.

 

[69473]

He's my toy 1927 Austin Seven Special, all 15 hp of it.
Kept me busy for the last couple of years hope to use in VSCC driving tests this year.

 

[Supaimpy]

This dominates my garage currently , with a Landrover S3 lightweight for company. It does seem to matter how much space I create I just collect more projects , the latest the Landsleeper wont even fit inside!

 

[Spriddler]

Mine's become a Wrinkly Rocker day-care centre .

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[robnchris]

I like two strokes.

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Oh wow a Yamaha SZR660, a very rare machine indeed.
Naughty boy leaving the key in the chuck,

 

[Stealaway]

Oh wow a Yamaha SZR660, a very rare machine indeed.
Naughty boy leaving the key in the chuck,

Ah well!!!
First of all I'm impressed you recognised the SZR.
Although because the SZR running gear was basically TZR it now has a much modified RD 350YPVS engine in it.
We were welding on the new exhaust so we had disconnected the lathe to power up the welder in the back of the van.
The lathe was only being used as a vice to cut exhaust tubes - that's why the key was in the chuck.

On the way to the Classic TT/Manx GP

 

[robnchris]

Ah that explains the twin pipes, Many many years ago whilst in Germany me and a mate got a part time job in a small factory, they needed some turning doing so I was given the job after their turner type person left the key in the chuck, on starting the lathe the key on approaching TDC flew straight through the corrugated roof at the time it seemed quite funny.

 

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[Neckender]

I’ve finished the new floor and now I’m battening the walls out, insulating and covering the walls with 12mm plywood sheeting. When completed fitting 5” skirting and painting the walls white.

John.

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[John Barrett]

This is our garage, it is where Jan puts her little car and very little else.

This is my workshop and pottery, constructed by me 22 years ago from thermalite blocks, clad outside and in, where I put myself and nobody else...

Here is inside my workshop, full of lovely things to play with!

Here is the inside of the pottery right now, full of all those things you would put in your garage if the car wasn't there...!

 

[bigtwin]

This is our garage, it is where Jan puts her little car and very little else.

This is my workshop and pottery, constructed by me 22 years ago from thermalite blocks, clad outside and in, where I put myself and nobody else...
Here is inside my workshop, full of lovely things to play with!
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Here is the inside of the pottery right now, full of all those things you would put in your garage if the car wasn't there...!

That’s a fine looking set of files you have there.

I have, I think, only three metal files and given the number of times I’ve needed a better file than I have, I’ve never increased my holding! I need to do something about that.

Ian

 

[John Barrett]

That’s a fine looking set of files you have there.

I have, I think, only three metal files and given the number of times I’ve needed a better file than I have, I’ve never increased my holding! I need to do something about that.

Ian

Hi Ian
I spent the first six months of my Army apprenticeship with a file in my hand: you're never alone with a big bastard...

 

[bigtwin]

Hi Ian
I spent the first six months of my Army apprenticeship with a file in my hand: you're never alone with a big bastard...

Haha.

I too wielded a file, or two, in the first six months of my UKAEA apprenticeship. Our first task was to create a perfect rectangular cuboid (if that's the correct term?) from a piece of bar.

Once we’d managed that we then used surface planes and a milling machine on the piece to produce a V block.

All good training!

Ian

 

[Supaimpy]

I too wielded a file, or two, in the first six months of my UKAEA apprenticeship. Our first task was to create a perfect rectangular cuboid (if that's the correct term?) from a piece of bar.

Once we’d managed that we then used surface planes and a milling machine on the piece to produce a V block.

Snap , I watch in horror as people use files or hacksaws , my Apprenticeship at UKAEA Winfrith has stood me in good stead, and friendships from those years still endure as well

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[Revolvor]

I did a 5 year Undergraduate Apprenticeship at BAC in Weybridge, and the first 4 months were in the Training School. We likewise used only hand-tools for the first 3 or 4 weeks, making G-Clamps, set squares, angle gauges etc. I was living away from home and wrote to my parents every week. After a few weeks of writing that I was "still filing" apparently my Mum said to my Dad "I didn't think John was doing a secretarial course!"

The training school was built on the old Brooklands race track, and to get to the carpark, we had to drive round part of the banking, and then hope we had a good handbrake, as we parked on the slope.

 

[Chris51]

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Always had to bump start my goldie DB32 even with the RRT2 box...I was young then though.

 

[duane0001]

My big new shed. Got a big garage but it's full of motorhome

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That looks a bit like mine

 

[bobnick]

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This is one bay of it another two similar ones joined on.

Nice triumph herald there. HRHs first car in 1973.

 

[bobnick]

Innit strange how many people have garages yet don't put a car /s bike/s in them.

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[jongood]

This dominates my garage currently , with a Landrover S3 lightweight for company. It does seem to matter how much space I create I just collect more projects , the latest the Landsleeper wont even fit inside!

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Can I what your plans are for the Imp? Its a shame really - on paper they should have been good, they just weren't. I saw a program on TV where they were converting a Lanci Fulvia to Electric, and they were considering where to put the batteries to get the weight distribution right and I thought of an Imp, if ever a car needed a reliable powerplant and some weight moving around that's it and could be a real giant killer if you got it right, probably ruinously expensive though.

 

[bobnick]

Old house. Car and bikes since replaced. Honda CB1100 hiding

 

[Steve and Denise]

Always had to bump start my goldie DB32 even with the RRT2 box...I was young then though.

There’s the problem running fast enough at my age the rrt2 box on the road is dreadful you need arms like Popeye to hold the clutch, this was never a problem when I was racing Norton’s and Triumphs back in the seventies the first one is a Norton engine the others Xs Yamaha engine

 

[John Barrett]

There’s the problem running fast enough at my age the rrt2 box on the road is dreadful you need arms like Popeye to hold the clutch, this was never a problem when I was racing Norton’s and Triumphs back in the seventies the first one is a Norton engine the others Xs Yamaha engineView attachment 455417View attachment 455418View attachment 455419 <Broken link removed>

I remember riding a DBD34 once in the 60s. It had the obligatory RRT2 close ratio box, and IIRC it did about 60 mph in first gear! Not very good in traffic...

 

[Spriddler]

When a bachelor's garage is full............

and the dining room's chocker..........

there's only the kitchen left..........

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