Post by traveller on Apr 18, 2014 13:19:49 GMT -5
Hello everyone
We found this site, having owned,(and still do) a Revere 600. We both travelled many countries in the late eighties and nineties and 2000's. We carried an unbelievable quantity of equipment on board, two spare tyre's, tape cassette deck from an old ford escort and home made sleeping mats made from high density foam that we machine stitched a layer of boat grade neoprene onto in a small warehouse in Truro. We have both written long personal accounts of our travels and hope one day to put them to book, ebook that is. We covered one engines worth mileage and a second engine that came from Bob Hills of Hertford, well, not directly as the bike was in Ely scrap yard. The first engine never actually failed, it was just completely worn and thus used oil and pumped much of out through the silly breather from the air filter into a tube directly in front!!! of the rear tyre. So much as it pained us we replaced it. We actually collected the engine on the Revere, two up, we strapped it to our beefed up back rack and wobbled 100 miles to its fitting place, dangerous, and very alarming to even think about, but where needs must and all that. It has also carried eight dining chairs in Portugal, two bicycles on another occasion and lastly, three people up a mountain. One day we intend to put the old chugger back into action, but meanwhile it sits there having a well earned rest. i guess spare parts will become difficult to source if not already, but i am innovative, once using condoms for the diaphragms in the carburetors when the rubber inner failed for some strange reason(i put that incident down to fuel). We have also fitted tyre onto the rims that seem now quite laughably dangerous. A tyre so narrow on the rear it always tried to threw us off, and one so wide it burned the insert guard to shreds and started gnawing at various electrical components and pump hoses. The bike has had desert sand in ever orifice, all electrical connections were rendered useless until painstakingly blown out and greased. Our poor bike has been abused, is the general idea i am trying to convey, and not once did it STOP!, in fact the solenoid became overactive in its senior years and once or twice at the most inopportune moments would keep that starter motor running until the fuse was removed or battery disconnected, and we all know how easy it is get to both in a hurry in the middle of a cities busy roads. On our travels me met other people who thought we were insane to attempt our travels on such a %^&^%y bike, well, every one of them were proven wrong, and many at German and French bike meetings were shown the proof of their doubts about this amazing bike.
We found this site, having owned,(and still do) a Revere 600. We both travelled many countries in the late eighties and nineties and 2000's. We carried an unbelievable quantity of equipment on board, two spare tyre's, tape cassette deck from an old ford escort and home made sleeping mats made from high density foam that we machine stitched a layer of boat grade neoprene onto in a small warehouse in Truro. We have both written long personal accounts of our travels and hope one day to put them to book, ebook that is. We covered one engines worth mileage and a second engine that came from Bob Hills of Hertford, well, not directly as the bike was in Ely scrap yard. The first engine never actually failed, it was just completely worn and thus used oil and pumped much of out through the silly breather from the air filter into a tube directly in front!!! of the rear tyre. So much as it pained us we replaced it. We actually collected the engine on the Revere, two up, we strapped it to our beefed up back rack and wobbled 100 miles to its fitting place, dangerous, and very alarming to even think about, but where needs must and all that. It has also carried eight dining chairs in Portugal, two bicycles on another occasion and lastly, three people up a mountain. One day we intend to put the old chugger back into action, but meanwhile it sits there having a well earned rest. i guess spare parts will become difficult to source if not already, but i am innovative, once using condoms for the diaphragms in the carburetors when the rubber inner failed for some strange reason(i put that incident down to fuel). We have also fitted tyre onto the rims that seem now quite laughably dangerous. A tyre so narrow on the rear it always tried to threw us off, and one so wide it burned the insert guard to shreds and started gnawing at various electrical components and pump hoses. The bike has had desert sand in ever orifice, all electrical connections were rendered useless until painstakingly blown out and greased. Our poor bike has been abused, is the general idea i am trying to convey, and not once did it STOP!, in fact the solenoid became overactive in its senior years and once or twice at the most inopportune moments would keep that starter motor running until the fuse was removed or battery disconnected, and we all know how easy it is get to both in a hurry in the middle of a cities busy roads. On our travels me met other people who thought we were insane to attempt our travels on such a %^&^%y bike, well, every one of them were proven wrong, and many at German and French bike meetings were shown the proof of their doubts about this amazing bike.
