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ozzies going soft?

put some expoxy on your finger and cover it in valve grinding past, no need to waste a good file.

.......to all on here, may your tanks never run dry and your ignition always spark.

that includes all our fans on that other  site who say they never read here

(well, except for a couple who shall remain nameless but they know who they are )

I haven't bought a bike magazine since about 1995. The standard of journalism has deteriorated badly. Last straw for me was the writer who announced that AJS has the alternator in front of the engine,didn't know what a magneto was evidently. Same bloke insists that Matchless were taken over by AJS.

I have a stack of Classic Motorcycle from number 1 to the issue above, I failed to find anyone  give them away to so in this covid rubbish have taken to reading them again.
When Bob Curry died, the magazine in effect died with him, he was a mine of historical information.

Content of bike magazines these days is either boasting or advertorial. When its not laughable ignorance that is.
Once us old Uns with actual memory of the times have gone they'll repeat all the content on a loop, like the BBC does.

I have never bothered with RC because I can't stand the beardy one. Irrational, but true.

of course these bikes are the ones he'll never sell, well, if he got an offer.............i think that now more than ever he is a part time dealer.

"it's full of racists and old boys who live in the past".


So he's having a dig at me now is he?

wicked Rex, but spot on.

I think its more likely to be early 1930s, but Raleighs are excellent bikes well worth looking after.

If it gets too much for you I have a shitty french twostroke to swap.Decades of fun there.

Is that a Horex behind it?

I never had any trouble buying from ebay france or chambrier/macadem deux roues or the otehr one I can't remember, and still occasionally use one or other for parts like vintage handlebar rubbers.

Several problems here, sending large parcels from france is a real hassle for the sender, the french post has several price ranges, and post offices over there seem to be miserable gits who set their own prices according to whim, system is set in the napoleon era,and often post office staff don't understand it.
However once inthe system it always got here, surprisingly fast some times.

Sellers in france don't like using paypal, especially private sellers, and unlike here they are not forced to offer it on ebay.

finally, people here who buy french bikes fail to comprehend that there is not the  supply of vintage stuff /backup as there is here in UK, its all very thin on the ground so if its something scarce you cannot really blame them for exporting it.

An awful lot went to the austrian corporal for scrap, regardless. Its amazing just how anything escaped the melting pot.

It is pointless talking to french ebay sellers without speaking basic french,   favourite these days is ...quand est le prochain canoë en Angleterre s'il vous plaît