Showing posts with label BSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BSA. Show all posts
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When we were last over in England, Mark showed us around his old hunting ground. One of the places we visited was 'Rockerbox' near Farnham in Surrey, a small and discreet bike shop and workshop situated at the roadside, specialising in Triumph's and BSA's for the past forty years. Outside a handful of machines were parked up, and the window display was a hint of what we were about to discover inside..
Standing behind the counter, Darrell the owner explained that all their parts are original manufacturers stock, while in the workshop his mechanic was busy working away on a T110. Old photos and posters on the walls reflect "une belle époque", and when we asked Darrell about a certain part he immediately located it by thumbing through one of his parts manuals, not a computer to be seen! Rockerbox has seemingly resisted the passage of time.. much to our pleasure.
Taking pride of place amongst the bikes for sale, a 1952 TR5 trial..
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When we were last over in England, Mark showed us around his old hunting ground. One of the places we visited was 'Rockerbox' near Farnham in Surrey, a small and discreet bike shop and workshop situated at the roadside, specialising in Triumph's and BSA's for the past forty years. Outside a handful of machines were parked up, and the window display was a hint of what we were about to discover inside..
Standing behind the counter, Darrell the owner explained that all their parts are original manufacturers stock, while in the workshop his mechanic was busy working away on a T110. Old photos and posters on the walls reflect "une belle époque", and when we asked Darrell about a certain part he immediately located it by thumbing through one of his parts manuals, not a computer to be seen! Rockerbox has seemingly resisted the passage of time.. much to our pleasure.
Taking pride of place amongst the bikes for sale, a 1952 TR5 trial..
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When we were last over in England, Mark showed us around his old hunting ground. One of the places we visited was 'Rockerbox' near Farnham in Surrey, a small and discreet bike shop and workshop situated at the roadside, specialising in Triumph's and BSA's for the past forty years. Outside a handful of machines were parked up, and the window display was a hint of what we were about to discover inside..
Standing behind the counter, Darrell the owner explained that all their parts are original manufacturers stock, while in the workshop his mechanic was busy working away on a T110. Old photos and posters on the walls reflect "une belle époque", and when we asked Darrell about a certain part he immediately located it by thumbing through one of his parts manuals, not a computer to be seen! Rockerbox has seemingly resisted the passage of time.. much to our pleasure.
Taking pride of place amongst the bikes for sale, a 1952 TR5 trial..
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When we were last over in England, Mark showed us around his old hunting ground. One of the places we visited was 'Rockerbox' near Farnham in Surrey, a small and discreet bike shop and workshop situated at the roadside, specialising in Triumph's and BSA's for the past forty years. Outside a handful of machines were parked up, and the window display was a hint of what we were about to discover inside..
Standing behind the counter, Darrell the owner explained that all their parts are original manufacturers stock, while in the workshop his mechanic was busy working away on a T110. Old photos and posters on the walls reflect "une belle époque", and when we asked Darrell about a certain part he immediately located it by thumbing through one of his parts manuals, not a computer to be seen! Rockerbox has seemingly resisted the passage of time.. much to our pleasure.
Taking pride of place amongst the bikes for sale, a 1952 TR5 trial..
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From my friend Benny Ludolphy in Holland... a very sad looking, but highly unusual Autorace machine with a BSA B31/33 engine. This must be from the pre-tarmac days, when our Japanese friends were still allowed to race on proper dirt tracks....
Eventually it looks like spring and I am a little stressed for the things I had planned to get done this winter. I am way behind schedule. I have heard that my flat track buddys have got some "new" hot engines.....So it`s time to get the dusty Goldie done.
I wantet the BSA to look like a American TT bike.
I don`t know if flames makes it go faster......But the girls like it.......I hope..
This DBD engine is genuine flat track. Raced hard in the US. It`s not so hot anymore, I had to do a lot of work to get it usable.
Still a lot on the "to do" list.....
….And now to something totally different….A home made BSA, small and narrow. I don`t think I have ever seen anything like it.
The engine is mostly 1971 lightning and so are the wheel hubs.
BSA had a model called the Wasp; this one has wasp colors for sure.
The BSA Lightning engine was powerful for its day. So a small and light the bike is now, it have a lot of sting to keep up with traffic.
It`s impressive to know that it only took four months to build this bike, without catalogue parts…..
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