i rode this bike around sydney for the best part of 8 years...on it all day....from one place to another and the last four years of it without lights cause the shit battery had died and i never replaced it....so id ride in well lit streets and if it looked like it was getting hairy i just detoured.
was pulled up a few times by the man but always cool ones...let go when they saw no speedo...
i loved that bike then and still do now...you cant spend that much time on a bike and not become one with it.
heres one of my favourite stories about this bike...i had just got it and was riding with a bunch of old blokes on a ride out of sydney...and as any young whippersnapper would, starting an old cantankerous british ohv single will tell you,...too much mechanical advance, not enough tickle and the wrong kick make for sore calves. anyhow here i am in the servo getting ready to start and wham in the leg like some big huge guy with a 4 by 2.
over walks this old dude riding a ariel single and says "you want me like show you so that never happens again?".... yes please....he showed me and to this day that bike has never bit me back...its a funny technique but makes perfect sense once you have used it a few times....i used to start my rudge ulster that way....always worked...maybe ill do a you tube clip of it...
stay tuned...
anyhow...this my friends is my favourite bike of all time...it took me five years to get the guy to sell me this bike (thanks for giving up steve) ... last time i put it away she wasnt going....one of the begg bros had taken her for a movie shoot and told me no matter how many times he kicked she would not fire....i drained the crankcase, changed the oil, dumped the fuel, new fuel in and she started first kick...as always...now thats love.
6 comments:
beaty
I remember that story .. a little 1/4 kick wind up of kicker clicks past top dead center works on a 74 very well with a mag. Not the same as your old guy loading up with gas technique but an old guy showed me that one too.
I'm not feeling much love for my bikes lately.
all your love going somewhere else t????.....coming from somewhere else?.
ahh, the old single cylinder starting technique... Velocette owners have to learn it well!
Matt
Keep me this one, for Summer 2013 please!
yeh pete, i have seen many velo owners concentrating very hard when it comes time to hitting the road....
vincent, it will never be sold so rest assured..
I used that last shot of the four as my desktop background... beautiful, love the look of that bike.
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