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Thanks, I feel a bit better about the old bike. You should have seen the Scarborough turn out though. They must be minted or else plenty of time on their hands. Every bike looked perfect.
Quite a coincidence – I’ve been playing with screens today.
I did get a taller flip screen for the winter. If I relax on the bike I’m looking through it, but if I sit up straight I look over it. Definitely quieter, and keeps the wind off. But I don’t really like it.
So, for the good weather, I decided to cut down the original screen, I took about 10cm off the height. I tried it today but it’s still noisy on the helmet. I then tried 70mph without any screen at all. Quite a push in the chest from the airstream, but at last the helmet buffeting seems to have gone.
So next I’m going to cut this one down to leave just a vestigial screen, see how that works out.Went out for a spin today, headed South. Ended up eating lunch on the cliff at Bournemouth. Came back a different way and got lost a couple of times. Maybe I should get a satnav. 170 miles, didn’t miss a beat. Oh, there was a lad on a Yam 600 or somethin, big exhaust etc, tried to burn me off – he couldn’t, I had to lift to stay behind him! This Trophy really does go if you wind up the revs.
A modern version of my push bike with fag packet pegged against the spokes. Not recently I hasten to add, but when I was about 8 I suppose.
Yes, I think that’s the model. I remember thinking it pulled really hard compared with my 500 AJS. There again, the AJ was probably quite worn out – in those days funds dictated all repairs were with used parts.
I had several buckets and boxes full of old cams, heads, all sorts of things. Rebuilds were a primitive form of blueprinting – cams with the biggest lumps, best piston/bore fit and so on.
Wish I still had it all.Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of the old bikes. I don’t even have pictues of me in that decade. I had elbow length hair just before it was cut off at the end of college years.
Reading about the Honda 50 made me remember some of the old stuff me and my mates played with as we got onto motorised wheels. I had a lot of goes round the back garden on on a Lambretta LD150, also my push bike with a bolt on engine that drove against the tyre, amd an NSU Quickly moped. Once on the road my race tuned Ariel Leader 250 2 stroke twin with Wal Phillips fuel injector managed to stay intact long enough to pass my test. It did about 105! Friends bikes borrowed were Sunbeam S7, Panther 700 outfit, Norton ES2 outfit, Noddy bike (LE Velocette), Douglas horizontal twin. I forget some of them. I then graduated to a 500 twin AJS for a few years, it taught me gravel rash, plaster cast and how to repair a write-off. Rebuilt a 700 twin Royal Enfield, but it caught fire and burnt out shortly after. Tiger cub 200cc kept me mobile. We all went through a bubble car/three wheeler phase and ended up in cars eventually, but I did get a Bonneville for a year or so, shared with a workmate.
Other than a few hired bikes on holidays, including a Harley on Majorca, I’ve had a long lay-off until I decided to get the Trophy.
I looked up the Trophy’s 1/4 mile time – about the same as my Jag!I’ve seen pinlocks advertised that go dark in the sunshine. A bit pricey but might still be worth it.
