Motu does an anorak

[Motu]

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!''

[Rhino]

[QUOTE=Motu]Bikes really are alive....I can feel them,they talk to me./QUOTE]

Hey Motu,

They talk to us every time we ride them. All it needs is for the rider to listen.

[Bonez]

The fc2 is screaming out for it's turn for a squirt as I type this. Got bits to pick up at Dannevirke this morning then popping over to Havelock North to visit olds. It just might get lucky. Have to push the gb out of the way first though............

[SuperDave]

Sounds similar to me discovering two members on this site have owned my ZXR prior to myself.

[Sensei]

Mate did up a Bonnie up here had a 8 Valve Norrich ? head on it & costume made inlets manifolds to hold new Mikunys ,Race Cams flowed head Etc went like hell for 10,000k's then started to crap out . Loved the head looked real different

[Wolf]

Like getting the papers for the LS400 after I bought it and seeing an ex-workmate's name on them, last registered owner before the bike shop I bought it from.

I'm still expecting to see an old battered TS125 wandering around with bits of muffler bandage that I recognise - Hey, my friends and I couldn't kill it so I have no reason to believe anyone else has...

[TonyB]

Motu, give in to your Bike-Nerd-dom. You know you want to!

[oldrider]

That was classic Motu. Cheers John.

[dawnrazor]

[QUOTE=Rhino]

Bikes really are alive....I can feel them,they talk to me./QUOTE]

Hey Motu,

They talk to us every time we ride them. All it needs is for the rider to listen.

I wonder what a Goldwing would say

[Paul in NZ]

Mate did up a Bonnie up here had a 8 Valve Norrich ? head on it & costume made inlets manifolds to hold new Mikunys ,Race Cams flowed head Etc went like hell for 10,000k's then started to crap out . Loved the head looked real different

I think it's spelt Nourish? Not sure if it was developed seperately to the Weslake 8 valve head / top end (can't remember - too lazy to look it up). Really popular here with speedway TQ guys and there were a few about but always troublesome on a road bike unless well set up.

Eventually Triumph did their own 8 valve bonnie, the TSS, which suffered from pourous castings etc but was a wee bit quicker than a T140... Still... It was too little too late, didn't fix the other problems and IMHO was not as pretty to look at which was one of the things that didn't need fixing...

Still see em occasionally... Very rare and desireable bit of kit now..