Old Brit Scrambler

[pete376403]

We were still riding bikes from the '50's in '74, never bought new bikes no matter where they were made.

With Brit bikes there wasn't really any point, nothing changed :-)

[Motu]

Well, that was the point - we'd fit all late model stuff onto our bikes. So we had early '50's Triumphs running 9 stud heads, 9:1 pistons and late model Bonnie cams, '69 front ends and twin leading shoe front brakes. Fun times.

[J.A.W.]

Well, that was the point - we'd fit all late model stuff onto our bikes. So we had early '50's Triumphs running 9 stud heads, 9:1 pistons and late model Bonnie cams, '69 front ends and twin leading shoe front brakes. Fun times.

Yeah, that's the way I recall it too, & things like Triton, Tribsa, & Vincati too..
Even the Brit factories did it, putting a soft tuned 500 Triumph twin mill into the BSA B50 trail bike chassis..

[Motu]

The British invented Lego....they just called them motorcycles.

[J.A.W.]

The British invented Lego....they just called them motorcycles.

Well, they did rename that `70s 500 Triumph twin in the BSA chassis - 'Adventurer' - from 'Trophy Trail'..
..thus - naming the whole genre, as such..

[Voltaire]

Well, that was the point - we'd fit all late model stuff onto our bikes. So we had early '50's Triumphs running 9 stud heads, 9:1 pistons and late model Bonnie cams, '69 front ends and twin leading shoe front brakes. Fun times.

Guys like you made it hard for us serious restorers of British bikes...

Just paid good money for a SU carb 53' Thunderbird frame, just need a MC2 SU carb now.....suppose you tossed lots of them too

I started riding in the early 80's, had to admire guys who rode Brit bikes when we had Z1000's , dedication to a lost cause.

My experience with A65 engines is limited to a 71 Lightening that I took to Ireland in 2002..... timing side bush...what were they thinking.

[Motu]

Apart from the ugly egg look, the A65 was a brilliant redesign of the A10....but they left in the timing side bush! Ed Turner changed to a timing side bearing, and then later beefed it up. Even though he was the mangaging director ( now he'd be the CEO) of the company, he had nothing at all to do with BSA, he completely ignored them....although he did design a couple of V8's for their Daimler division. I tossed away a lot of now very rare British stuff (mudguards, narcels, sprung seats, toolboxes, all that ugly stuff) which is why I am not happy with the bobber craze, seeing my youth paraded in front of me. But I wanted and SU carb, collected lots of parts, even found some in Melbourne, but never enough to make one. There were plenty of SU manifolds, so adapted HS2's (Mini etc) onto them.