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Sally
10-05-09, 06:33 PM
BSA 650 Single I think!
http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo306/_saoralba_/DSCF0255.jpg
Velocettle or Something, 500 Single, fish tail exhaust sounds amazing though!
http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo306/_saoralba_/DSCF0256.jpg

They were lost, stopped to help out, ended up giving them directions.
One started fine, the other flooded the engine, and I had to push the guy down a hill to bump start the bike.. First time I have seen a road bike kick started! :)

Immaculate bikes, turned out the group they got lost from were just behind them!
Random I know, but maybe some of you guys like classic bikes :)
G
10-05-09, 07:37 PM
I'm marshalling for the classic racing motorcycle club next weekend at Darley Moor :cool:

Love classics as much as I love mordern bikes.

The sound and smell is awsome.
DarrenSV650S
10-05-09, 07:41 PM
Possibly on this (http://www.gcmcc.co.uk/mc/?q=node/30) run?

I was going to be taking the tzr but it wasn't quite ready
rick0361
10-05-09, 07:58 PM
There was a good do at Stafford at end of April for this sort of thing with a massive autojumble. Happens every year usually twice a year - next one is september / october
dizzyblonde
10-05-09, 07:58 PM
. First time I have seen a road bike kick started! :)




wow, I can't believe that..lol.
One of ours is a kick start, its very old but not as old as these two. I haven't mastered it yet. Would have to jump off the top board of the swimming pool for me to do it8-[

And G your right about the smell, its funny cause it kinda lingers for ages, its not the same as a modern one.
Sally
10-05-09, 08:02 PM
Possibly on this (http://www.gcmcc.co.uk/mc/?q=node/30) run?

I was going to be taking the tzr but it wasn't quite ready

Aye that run defiently..

Shame, seen alot of nice bikes on the road, the bar stewards don't wave to me! :(

The sound of them were amazing.
Sally
10-05-09, 08:03 PM
wow, I can't believe that..lol.
One of ours is a kick start, its very old but not as old as these two. I haven't mastered it yet. Would have to jump off the top board of the swimming pool for me to do it8-[

And G your right about the smell, its funny cause it kinda lingers for ages, its not the same as a modern one.

Seen dirt bikes, field bikes etc kick started, but not anything on the road!
Seen ones with a kick start as a back-up, but never only a kick start!
dizzyblonde
10-05-09, 08:08 PM
Seen dirt bikes, field bikes etc kick started, but not anything on the road!
Seen ones with a kick start as a back-up, but never only a kick start!

My other half is a bit of an odd un, he likes bikes with 'charactor'. He has two SRX's but they are kicker only, he could have bought later ones with push buttons, but he likes to be awkward. At least if someone nicked it, they'd dump it down the road fed up trying to start it!
G
10-05-09, 08:49 PM
And G your right about the smell, its funny cause it kinda lingers for ages, its not the same as a modern one.

Its supposedly a few drops of castrol R in the fuel tank which creates the smell in the classics.
DarrenSV650S
10-05-09, 08:55 PM
You should smell my tzr. Nobody gets lost on a run if they are behind me. They just smell their way there:p
pete m
11-05-09, 03:50 PM
you might find some coverage of Stafford and other Classic bike events by clicking the sig below:cool:
mjc
12-05-09, 02:59 PM
You should smell my tzr. Nobody gets lost on a run if they are behind me. They just smell their way there:p

i heard that when the israelites were lost in the desert god sent a tzr to guide them with fruity 2-stroke smell by night and a column of blue smoke by day...
DarrenSV650S
12-05-09, 04:34 PM
i heard that when the israelites were lost in the desert god sent a tzr to guide them with fruity 2-stroke smell by night and a column of blue smoke by day...
Tis true, indeed he did
Richie
12-05-09, 04:51 PM
BSA 650 Single I think!
http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo306/_saoralba_/DSCF0255.jpg




Incorrect its a twin.
looks like a Golden Flash. just like the bike I learned to ride on..
dizzyblonde
12-05-09, 05:47 PM
You should smell my tzr. Nobody gets lost on a run if they are behind me. They just smell their way there:p


had many a lung full of two stroke. Many a time bump starting after rebuilds on Elsie NO1, then Elsie No2, the YPVS.

Alt least if your riding behind a two stroke and they bugger off in a hurry, you can find em....just follow the blue smoke:p