classic motorcycle forum

They used to say ...buy the bike ,not the story ............now if you dont have a story , no one  will buy the bike...........There was a similarly petrified 34 V Harley on the local scene,I see it went a bit over $4k ,which IMHO is not too bad for a Harley ........Personally ,the flywheels and shafts wouldnt worry me.....Id be more concerned about the complex lifters used by these single cam JAPs..............thats assuming the cases arent all broken to pieces .

very interesting....I never knew that .......anyhoo ,IMHO the bike is somewhat overpriced ,I  dont want to have much to do with it .

Can a Triumph 3T or 3TA be changed into a 500 ....the unit one already has 500 barrels and head ,so maybe a crank and rods ?.........or does it need a 500 crankcase as well?........He s looking at two ,one a preunit ,one a unit (early)

What carb is it ......the pic seems to indicate a Type 27 speedway carb ,or maybe a 10TT

It appears to be a race bike ,so its going to have a pretty radical cam in it..........this may make it hard to check the valve  timing ..........and spitting back at slow revs may be a side effect of very early inlet opening.

In 60 years I have seen one complete MS motorcycle .....and that was a NOS bike in the John Longland collection..........who knows what has happened to it............Some 10 years ago I saw the concours 1914 Triumph he had ..........no longer concours ,but a rusted relic .

Its a pedal cycle ....."You'd be better on a Malvern Star".

Slightly relevant ,our family got the first car in 1952..a new Peugeot 203..no more bicycles or motorbikes ............Why a Peugeot,you may ask ?.....I was told it was the only new car where the waiting list was under 6 months........a Holden was 12 months wait ,if you were an ex serviceman...there was an 800 pound subsidy.