Motu
1st October 2005, 23:26
I've always found it interesting when people appear and disapear in your life,10,20,30 years go by....you buy petrol somewhere and the guy on the pumps says.......
It can happen with inanimate objects too....
On my rounds this afternoon on the bike I dropped into AMPS,just to show Lou I can if a I really try,and as I left had a look at a nice restored Triumph Bonny.Next thing I'm telling him all about the bike he so beautifully restored....don't ya just hate people like that? It was a 1961,the duplex frame model,and I tell him the crank he thought was cut down and lightend was original for that model,the barrels were later model OE replacements,and to see a nice 8 stud Bonny head was very rare.(all this from some old fart on a dirt bike wearing MX gear) He said when he got the head it had twin plugs....
Say what?! There is only one head I've ever seen like that,and my brother fitted it to his bike in 1971,he got it off a speedway sidecar rider.Some years later it surfaced in a friends collection of Triumph parts,and it appears this guy got it off someone else I know.He welded up the centre plug hole and machined new fins,so only by looking real hard could i see where the centre plugs were.
Chance....if I had been my usual self and kept to myself I never would of seen it....it was waiting for me....called my name,I heard and came over for a look,and an old aquaintance was renewed.Bikes really are alive....I can feel them,they talk to me.
''Hey,fuckwit,change my oil why don't ya,we're dying in here!''
It can happen with inanimate objects too....
On my rounds this afternoon on the bike I dropped into AMPS,just to show Lou I can if a I really try,and as I left had a look at a nice restored Triumph Bonny.Next thing I'm telling him all about the bike he so beautifully restored....don't ya just hate people like that? It was a 1961,the duplex frame model,and I tell him the crank he thought was cut down and lightend was original for that model,the barrels were later model OE replacements,and to see a nice 8 stud Bonny head was very rare.(all this from some old fart on a dirt bike wearing MX gear) He said when he got the head it had twin plugs....
Say what?! There is only one head I've ever seen like that,and my brother fitted it to his bike in 1971,he got it off a speedway sidecar rider.Some years later it surfaced in a friends collection of Triumph parts,and it appears this guy got it off someone else I know.He welded up the centre plug hole and machined new fins,so only by looking real hard could i see where the centre plugs were.
Chance....if I had been my usual self and kept to myself I never would of seen it....it was waiting for me....called my name,I heard and came over for a look,and an old aquaintance was renewed.Bikes really are alive....I can feel them,they talk to me.
''Hey,fuckwit,change my oil why don't ya,we're dying in here!''