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devondan


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I vote that Grouty mods his and we all go and watch him at Bonniville speed week - like Goodwood festival of speed but at Bonneville!  Nice rear shocks!

 

 

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BSA did make some nice motorcycles, true. biggrin

Here's one they made in 1926.

It's had only three owners, I'm No 3.

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It's not as fast as many others, but I put that down to being 86 years old.

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There is a nice boardtrack style custom under there somewhere, bring it over and I'll fire up the angle grinder furiousbiggrinwink



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What cc is that fine steed Martyn. It looks tiny!

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500 ish I recon....



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Oh!!!!! :-O

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An S26, 27?



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Not sure I can convert (or want to) my 500 into a 250 !
I would imagine on methanol it would be an interesting ride. There are a couple of threads on www.b50.org to do with speed week and fast BSA's


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That BSA of mine is an L26.

Bore 72 mm

Stroke 85.5 mm

Swept volume = 348.11 mm³

Approx 3.49 BHP - but that's a guess. confuse

It has a hand change 3 speed gearbox, acetylene lighting, throttle lever (no twistgrip), no rear suspension and girder front forks.

Brand new, in 1926, it would have costed £41 15/- excluding lamps and horn.

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Sob Sob once i had a BSA Rocket 650 cc engine. long gone now as mentioned before it had slim line feather bed norton frame with a racing norton RRT2 gearbox off i think a manx ? MV Agusta 8 leading shoe front brake with hand made twin pull cables ,as you can see i wished i stil had it ho hum doh



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Lost wrote:

Sob Sob once i had a BSA Rocket 650 cc engine. long gone now as mentioned before it had slim line feather bed norton frame with a racing norton RRT2 gearbox off i think a manx ? MV Agusta 8 leading shoe front brake with hand made twin pull cables ,as you can see i wished i stil had it ho hum doh



-- Edited by Lost on Saturday 14th of January 2012 10:26:30 PM

 i once had a 3 bedroom house large garden 2 cars.....bsa???csa???biggrinbiggrin



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My 1st bike was a BSA C12 that I used to ride round the fields.  This was back in the dark ages.biggrin



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grouty wrote:

Not sure I can convert (or want to) my 500 into a 250 !
I would imagine on methanol it would be an interesting ride. There are a couple of threads on www.b50.org to do with speed week and fast BSA's

 Not a prob we just expect it to go twice as fast!  

Funilly enough "Worlds Fastest Indian" was on yesterday - great film!



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Seen it a few times now - ace! - Hopkins looks a bit like our Bob I recon wink

 

Burt Munro - what a dude, love to have met him smile



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