Sat 2nd august 2025

Puncture on T140

Sunday 3rd August 2025

Norton Camera testing

Tuesday 5th August 2025

Rode the Norton to Swan. Rear number plate snapped off

Wednesday 6th August 2025

Collected T140 rear wheel, fitted new hydralics to machine and just about finished it but ran out of light. Will finish in a day or two. 

Thursday 7th August 2025

Met simon on the Kawasaki and we rode to Green Man Leighton Bromswold. 

Friday 8th August 2025

Took me hours ro fix the rear wheel. I should have asked for marias help earlier to put the spindle in. Norton is on the ramp. I am hopeful to finish the Norton for Sunday morning. I am shattered. 

Wednesday 28th August 2025

Started to lay the wiring onto the Green lane machine. 

Thursday 29th August 2025

Spent an evening wiring up the headlamp of the Green laner. Made a video about it

Friday 29th August 2025

Drilled and shaped the headlamp mount for the Green laner. 

July 2024

Wednesday 3rd July 2024

Started Matts Bike Video is on YouTube

Friday 

matts bike won't run 

Norton baaad 

Sat 6th July 2024

C15 ride for Honey 

New plugs needles reset  to top notch

PHOTO HERE 

Sunday 7th July 2024

Norton broke down had to be recovered from St Neots. I am not too sure, but in the garage there was no output from the alternator. Need to test AC side. I have due to the upcoming trip ordered lots of parts. Not ideal, but i am really getting quite nervous. I do not today have a plan B.

Monday 8th July 2024

6.30am Ordered several parts from Andover. They should arrive by Wednesday. 

Wednesday 

found badly damaged loom

Thursday 

Fitted new rotor and stator getting 14.3 volts

Sunday 28th July 2024

Rode with simon to check the in helmet microphone that I had struggled all day with. Fortuntately this one worked very well indeed. Here's a Brief test upto 70mph. I did not realise how well it would pick simon up !!

Wednesday end of July 

Rode my Norton to Simon's and we ended up riding wonderful roads into Elton then home via polebrooke.

My Kawasaki ER5 

My attempts to create a Green Lane BSA Bantam from my Plunger. 

My Story. 

For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to ride the many green lanes of Cambridgeshire. Due to a life changing injury in 2019 I can not ride off road with a heavy bike. Owning several Bantams my wingman mentioned that re-roling one to do this might be a good idea. 

I started back in August, removing the expensive parts associated with my D1, and the galleries on this page show progress, or lack of and my challenges to convert this old machine into a machine I can ride on the Byways of Cambridgeshire. 

My first attempt at riding a byeway can be found below. 

A Walk around my D1 prior to converting to Green Laner. 

Various Build Pics

Short Progress Video Mid October 2023