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Here’s a pic of the old girl relaxing in the garden. She has these periods of convalescence in between major or minor surgery in the shed. Almost rode her in anger last March, even had the MOT booked, but then the dear old thing decided she wasn’t ready and developed irritable magneto syndrome. My fault really because it’s just about the only part I hadn’t COMPLETELY overhauled, and just because it was working perfectly OK the previous November when I decided to give her a rest for the winter, why should it continue to do so a few months later. Came out to France in April and won’t get my filthy hands on her again until Oct/Nov when I shall hopefully be back in Blighty to gorge myself on steak n Kidley pie n chips. And proper beer.
GORDON’S ALIVE!! Hey Gordy, I’d forgotten the rain soaked ride back from the Pod, but I do remember putting the tent up after dark by the light of your purple Commando at Reading Rock 1983. And the ride back when the Norton’s rear tyre deflated and the miracle ‘tyre-inflator-foamy-sealer stuff was so crap at affecting a repair that we ended up laughing hyterically whilst spraying it at each other. To the disgust of the other diners at the Little Chef…
I’ll be back in Lincoln UK come November, we must meet up so I can see how fat you’ve become.
Bloody Hell the picture’s come out really small. Oh well, only took me about an hour to work out how to get it posted. And so to bed.
its much easier to host photos on http://www.photobucket.com and then copy the img test link into posts to get bigger pictures.
Looks a lovely bike, am prob going to be having a few magneto issues myself on the bike I’m building, not anything near as nice as yours tho
Nice one T. She looks ideal for some gentle cruising. Hope the electrical gremlins don’t take too much fixing. Surely even the French will have some Monsieur Lucas parts lurking under some dusty counter in some old out-of-the-way mechanic’s shop. Just hunting the bits down might be an interesting adventure!
I can remember the deflated tyre, but curiously I don’t recall much about the Reading Rock weekend. That Commando was my last Brit bike, all 27-or-so years ago. However I sometimes admit, under cover of darkness and with a following wind, to a slight Bonny T140 hankering. I don’t normally mention it in polite company, and I might be able to get it sorted by hypnosis. Or I may have to buy one.
BSA looks good Hunnsy.
In my youth I hated British bikes, but as i age i really appreciate them nore and find myself with hankerings to own one.
Glad that you and Gordy are back in comtact. I have a pic of him with his GPz900R somewhere. I will try to find,scan and then post it on here
Ah, that’s better. Only took me 2 minutes this time, you see it does help to sleep on things and try again in the morning.
As bought, before the long and expensive journey into trying to understand the twisted minds of the BSA engineers (and umpteen former owners began). Check out the bizarre, possibly semi-homemade, TLS front brake.
As of now. Not sure I’d do it again. Far too expensive and you have to navigate through a galaxy of absolutely garbage pattern parts which have probably been knocked up on the side of the road in Delhi from old oil drums.
Anyway, thanks for taking an interest. I know you guys are more into much later Japanese/European fare and I don’t blame you. I haven’t kept up with biking trends much but I do prefer specials and customs of any sort, rather than standard machines. If I had anything more modern I think it would be a lighter weight bike, a single or twin. The GS1000 I had was the only multi I’ve ever ridden. It was fun to blast along the straights dragster style but a cow to get around corners, it was so top-heavy. The RD250 was more fun.
Of course the modern bikes are lighter and must have better weight distribution, but I just can’t seriously see myself in multicoloured leathers. And now back to the grindstone.
Even more impressive!
Oddly enough I loved my RD250 too…
https://www.bikemeet.net/forums/topic/yamaha-rd250e/
Check out the classic, british and modified sections…plenty in there to interest you I think
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The GS1000 I had was the only multi I’ve ever ridden. It was fun to blast along the straights dragster style but a cow to get around corners, it was so top-heavy.A friend had a Z1000 that was the same… smooth and quick in a straight line but went around corners as if it had a bag of spuds on the handlebars. I guess it was typical for that age and design type.
You’ll be surprised if you venture out on a modern multi as most of them handle very well these days, even the heavy ones. However motorcycling is often more than the technical side, as you obviously know, and no super-smooth four will ever… oh hang on, I’m about to ramble on about chracter and ‘feel’, etc., etc., … must… stop… myself.
It’s good that there is such a variety of bikes available; something for everyone. It’s a shame that some of the older ones are now climbing in price quite steeply. I guess I should have hung on to that Commando after all!
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…but I just can’t seriously see myself in multicoloured leathers.That makes me smile… I seem to remember that a certain red leather jacket was soon died black!!!
T, when I get my e-mail sorted out (probably early next week) I’ll send you the address via a PM on this site, then hopefully we can have a beer when you are back over here.
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