jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
You got to love a bit of water jet cutting, these holes are the cut outs for some of the parts we use, water and grit under pressure cutting through 30mm steel plate...#engineerbore #needtogetoutmore
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
This is my personal shop bike built up from bits by us. The frame is 1970 BSA B50, motor is mild tune 1985 Rotax, the rest is stuff we had lying around...Ready for the coming season :)
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Today, another retube job, no two sets of forks are ever the same. These were truly hand built right down to the file marks left by the original craftsmen or craftswomen, after all these are WW2 and most likely manufactured by a team of women....the femal
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Sunbeam Druid girders in for retube. #horriblybent
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Norton CS1 girder fork re-tubed and ready to go, now for the difficult bit, getting the customer to cough up! Just kidding he's a good one...
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Norton CS1 #girderfork blades retubed with special grade seamless tube tapered from 1" down to 5/8" at each end...
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Norton CS1 Webb girder fork blades, these were fire damaged, fortunately the lugs are ok so we will re tube them and have them back in service
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Out go another set of our new custom forks, this time for a pre-unit triumph....
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Here go some more of our new girder forks... #sohotrightnow! #goinglikehotcakes
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Made up these handle bars for a 1920s Raleigh sports then brazed them into the top cast lug.. #lovelycurves #handmade
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
seven Velocette frames in for repair, some need one lug welding, some need complete retubes... #velocette #vintagemotorcycle #rigidframe
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Super nice fuel tank turned up today, supplied by one of my customers for a Velocette KTT build we are on
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Girder forks and indicators... at odds or good looking? I think it works. We fabricated headlamp mounts and fitted a repro #lucas headlamp. #girderforks #girderfork #RoyalEnfield #madeinengland #handmade #jakerobbins #jakerobbinsvintageengineering
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Stainless steel smiths speedo holder made in house at our emgineerium...
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Back from the paint shop, the prototype girders we built for this triumph... #huskeysandskinnyjeans #girderfork #triumph #handmade #madeinengland
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Finished triumph speed twin girder forks, we end up getting attached to these!
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
This is a rare picture of an 18 year old earning himself a living by learning how to free hand thread cut 20tpi threads onto our girder fork spindles.. I only show him twice how to do it, now he is knocking them out all day long, i am fucking proud...@wi
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
#triumph #speedtwin #girderfork #castlug #labourintensive #madeinengland #jakerobbins we are in the midst of building two more sets to be delivered this week, they look the business but take hours upon hours to make...#labouroflove
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
This is a shameless re gram from @jonnybronze he is kindly sorting out our non ferrous cast products, well at a price, we build him girder forks he makes our castings!
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Steering damper knobs...Fresh out of my good friends foundry, we grew up and worked together on some ridiculous projects as we were cutting our teeth and fingers on motorcycles. It has been good to work with him again and he will be offering his services
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Machining the grease feed holes on a set of sunbeam girder fork spindles, the bike is booked into the cannonball run... #sunbeam #vintagemotorcycle #madeinengland
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Monster... Literally a monster of the Ducati kind, this build is being done by Old Empire motorcycles so we a happy to be involved as we like their approach to custom building.. We are fitting a set of the new speedmans supreme girder forks to this bike
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Girders R Us, production run of these forks started this week ready for delivery in January.
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
This is a little fabrication project commissioned by the ministry of fun production company... It is a 3m high by 5m wide aluminium umbrella frame with 60 normal size umbrellas to be fitted when it erected in Trafalgar Square... Bit of a departure from m
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Here's a job we just did for our friends @sourcebmx shop, the kid buying parts need tools to fit said bits so we made an outside tool box with all the tools on wires so they cant be nicked! #rockettoolbox #shitmadefromscrap #scrapingalivingfromrubbish
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Part built in #hastings #jakerobbins #girderforks #handmade
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Possibly one of the highlights of my career, I have been involved with a #broughsuperior replica of "old bill" build.... This is the bike in my shop, I have scratch built the girder forks and am now making the handle bars.... Awesome times...
jake.robbins.vintage.engineering:
Sweet new girders for your next build? they are priced at £1100.. Hit me up at jakevinteng@aol.com for details
