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I’ve just had a look at this and found it entertaining. It’s good to see the variety of stuff you lot get up to, and that a lot of you seem to meet up occasionally and go places. The euro-tours looked fun. I now have an idea about the kind of machinery you ride around on and know that most of you go to the same barbers (number two please Alf).
I recently joined a BSA A7/A10 forum, mainly to ask technical questions (which seems to be what most of the people on there do). A tremendous amount of hard won knowledge on there that invariably turns out to be contradictory from one ‘expert’ to the next! Nothing on there about meeting up and going somewhere and plenty of detail about rebuilding one part or another. A bit worrying that! But as half of the contributors are in Australia or the US I suppose a meet up would be a bit difficult.
I joined the BSA Owners Club and there are plenty of National and International runs happening, with impressive turnouts by members considering the majority of them seem to be in their 60’s and 70’s! The members newsletter is always a good read: lots of letters wishing people a speedy recovery from their hip replacement/triple bypass surgery.
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.
