Identify these fine machines?

[Big Dave]

[sinned]

Very appropriate sound track - what is it?

[blackdog]

love that matchless

now identify this one..........

[BMWST?]

a mate used to have an Ariel (red?) Hunter.i thought it was a 500 single.i was intruiged with the manual advance-retard ign and one of the other controls we take for granted was also manual.

[Edbear]

Cool! Thanks for sharing!

[T.W.R]

A mixture of Red Hunters a early 250, 500, & 350.... a G9 Matchless, and a Bezza Star twin

Stig... it's a XBR500 Honda

[blackdog]

A mixture of Red Hunters a early 250, 500, & 350.... a G9 Matchless, and a Bezza Star twin

Stig... it's a XBR500 Honda

yea yea i forgot to relabel the f'in thing

how 'bout this one then clever dicky.....

[blackdog]

and id still swap it for the matchless.....

[pete376403]

My first rideable bike was a G9. Original when I got it, I "fixed it up". replaced the jampots with new girlings, replaced the short megas with some locally produced long tapered "mufflers", replaced the seat with a BSA Lightning unit, swapped the monbloc for a concentric, had the tank rechromed. Even attempted to convert the front brake to twin leading shoe (didn't work any better). In other words, bastardised it. Then sold it for not very much to buy a japanese trail bike. Ah, the ignorance of youth!

[Big Dave]

Very appropriate sound track - what is it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_O%27Hara
Southern Hearts

[Ixion]

a mate used to have an Ariel (red?) Hunter.i thought it was a 500 single.i was intruiged with the manual advance-retard ign and one of the other controls we take for granted was also manual.

I do so miss a manual advance. They were so useful. I use my scrap iron air lever as a poor mans substitue but it's nowhere near as effective.

The Runter was highly respected in the day.

[Motu]

Yeah,nice sound track Dave - my daughter came over to have a look just because of the music.I had a '53 G9,same age as me,and the worst bike I've ever owned.But it was the best engineered of the British vertical twins,with a centre crank bearing (mistake),separate barrels and heads,eccentric valve adjustment,big gear oil pumps on each camshaft,breather down the centre of the crank.But not made for brutal owner repairs.

Nice BSA,can't tell if it's an A7 or A10 (500 or 650).Look at the kick starter - imagine how long your bike would have to slide down the road to wear it down to 1/2in long.I seem to have lost that souvenir along the way.

[PeteJ]

OK - (guessing a bit at the years, but in order):

1955 Ariel VH500

1946 (could be immediately pre-WWII) Ariel VG500

1953 (yeah, yeah, was on it..) Matchless G9 500

1951 Velocette MAC350

1937 (could be some years earlier, with the bridging over the head) Ariel RH500

1948 (says on it, but my old '46 had tele forks...) Ariel NH350

1951/2 BSA A7 (yeah, think an early A7, pre A10)

Stig, as well as the XBR, you seem to have put up a Honda Rune prototype...

Cheers

PJ

[blackdog]

Stig, as well as the XBR, you seem to have put up a Honda Rune prototype...

Cheers

PJ

nope, the rune was already in production when this was made.......

[Big Dave]

OK - (guessing a bit at the years, but in order):

1955 Ariel VH500

1946 (could be immediately pre-WWII) Ariel VG500

1953 (yeah, yeah, was on it..) Matchless G9 500

1951 Velocette MAC350

1937 (could be some years earlier, with the bridging over the head) Ariel RH500

1948 (says on it, but my old '46 had tele forks...) Ariel NH350

1951/2 BSA A7 (yeah, think an early A7, pre A10)

Stig, as well as the XBR, you seem to have put up a Honda Rune prototype...

Cheers

PJ

Nice - I'm re-working it cause I don't like some of the pans in the first effort now - I'll label them when replacing too.

chairs.