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Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: johnr on April 27, 2007, 02:50:10 PM

Title: hello!
Post by: johnr on April 27, 2007, 02:50:10 PM

just found the forum, ive an xl500s, and a 53 m21 bsa, and a c15.
ive always had single pot bikes, i love the simplicity of them, i also own a shedfull of katana suzukis,

Title: Re: hello!
Post by: Bruce on April 27, 2007, 02:56:35 PM

Welcome to the forum, Im the one with the Norton Big4, its good to see that somebody else has a sidevalve motorcycle

Title: Re: hello!
Post by: johnr on April 27, 2007, 03:07:55 PM

ah, right, was it your bike on the stand at stafford last oct? i was on the katana club stand next door with the 'orrible matt black katana.
this is my xl

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/ukkatanapics/100_0288.jpg)



will post a pic of the beesa when i can find it!!

Title: Re: hello!
Post by: johnr on April 27, 2007, 03:12:52 PM

ah, here it is, this is my 1953 m21 sidevalver, never restored, never repainted. just as it came out of the factory, +54 years of wear and tear!!, i think the term for it is oily rag condition!!


(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/ukkatanapics/100_0445.jpg)

Title: Re: hello!
Post by: guest18 on April 27, 2007, 03:21:38 PM

oooh very nice! That is a handsome motorcycle :)

Title: Re: hello!
Post by: guest27 on April 27, 2007, 04:35:49 PM

Brilliant Beesa - going back to the mid week topic - this beesa is the kind of restoration I like - none - just running repairs.

Well amy be a bit of paint now and then if the owner fancies

R

Title: Re: hello!
Post by: MrFluffy on April 27, 2007, 08:17:49 PM

Hello john, big suzuki's and thumpers go together it seems...

Title: Re: hello!
Post by: 002 on April 27, 2007, 09:17:50 PM

Hello John,
And was that a sidecar wheel I saw on the left of your XL.
A Watsonian maybe !

Another Charioteer maybe ?


Jethro

Title: Re: hello!
Post by: guest7 on April 28, 2007, 12:08:19 PM

That Beezer is effing lovely and exactly proves the point I was trying to make in the 'mid week topic' thread. 10 tens more interesting than a pristine restoration.

And yes, we have a number of charioteers here so please tell us more about the rig :)

GC

Title: Re: hello!
Post by: johnr on April 28, 2007, 06:42:11 PM

yes, it was, i say was, because it is no longer.
ive had sidecars as long as ive had solos, that was the mudguard of a watsonian oxford that was hung off the side of a goldwing which i had up till selling it last monday. my next outfit is going to be a long low suzuki katana with an unusual sidecar which is going to be made from the C***pit section of an all aluminium glider(yes glider as in engineless aeroplane) which ive aquired. itss till in the planniong stage, but thats a subject for a different forum!!
beesa cam out of the factory fitted to a sidecar, which i pulled till about 7 years ago, hence it never had asidestand fitted. the one on it is pretty feeble and useless, sothe bike tends to be leaned up against stuff to be safe.
though it looks a shed, its actually pretty hi tech for an old brit!
inside the battery casing, lurks a modern gel battery, the voltage is regulated by an electronic regulator, the tail light is an led unit, and it has a halogen headlamp, the engine is sparked by an electronic ignition unit cunningly secreted inside the old magneto casing. as i had a run of duff magnetos some years back and decided in a fit of annoyance one day to just bin the magneto and get it modernised.

Title: Re: hello!
Post by: Ken on April 28, 2007, 08:24:57 PM

Now thats what you call a motobike

Ken

Quote from: Smudge on April 27, 2007, 03:21:38 PM

oooh very nice! That is a handsome motorcycle :)