Best Brit Bike?

[Boo]

best of both worlds. a hybrid

This was an interesting one spotted at Rivington a few years back.. Velocette LE with 12v C90 power.

[wightegi]

I saw a Bsa C15 resto project and know of a Benly 200 engine....

[ldtopham]

I know nowt about Brit bikes but as I have a few spare drip trays laying around I had a punt on this a week or so ago, I really like simplicity of it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261001906196? ... 1423.l2649

[Pjam]

I know nowt about Brit bikes but as I have a few spare drip trays laying around I had a punt on this a week or so ago, I really like simplicity of it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261001906196? ... 1423.l2649

Did you win it? Not a bad price for something from 1940!

[ldtopham]

No. I always bid too low then regret not bidding higher when I see how much it goes for. That's what you get for being a tight Yorkshire man. As.it happened I was trying to buy it off auction but it wasn't to be.

[DRAG90]

As the owner of a BSA Gold Star for 28 years i can firmly state........................ it isn,t
The late BSA A65 was the most sorted and underated of the twins. But i would say the Weslake singles or twins were some of the best engines made in the UK

[Jon]

I think the vast majority of British bikes suffered from the crappy oil of the era. I think the best Brit bike in terms of design and style was a late '40's Triumph Speed Twin before they tuned it past it's reliability point. I think the sexiest Brit was the Triumph (BSA) Hurricane...And the hardest was one of Alan Clews's '70's CCM's...The twin shocker with the long laydown shocks and the footpegs welded to the engine cases...

Speed twin; http://www.tomcc.org/downloads/gal0801.jpg

Hurricane; http://www.bikeexif.com/wp-content/uplo ... ricane.jpg

CCM; http://motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/cl ... cm-500.jpg

[zippy]

I think the sexiest Brit was the Triumph (BSA) Hurricane...

Was the Hurricane Disk braked? Got a bloody air scoop for front brake.

[Jon]

I think the sexiest Brit was the Triumph (BSA) Hurricane...

Was the Hurricane Disk braked? Got a bloody air scoop for front brake.

Nope... It was actually a BSA but for all sorts of internal politic reasons ended up a triumph. That is a 4 leading shoe drum brake. The air scoop is partly for coolness and partly for cooling!
I had a similar one on my T100R and they were ferociously powerful, especially on first application. You were meant to have every shoe touching the internal drum at the same time but if you did, and it had been damp overnight, the internal drum surface got a thin film of rust on and the first time you literally touched the lever, the wheel would lock. The trick was to arrange the shoes so that one pair touched fractionally before the other pair did...You got a tad more lever travel but stayed on the bike more...

The T150 and the Rocket Three were genuine 130 mph bikes and weighed over 500 lbs wet. Those brakes would stop them from top speed easily...

[DRAG90]

American Craig Vetter was responsible for the X-75 styling.
If you believed the wildly inaccurate "Smiths" then 130mph was possible . the truth is more like 110-115 in STD trim.
The Triumph/BSA conical hub was 2LS not 4LS, and was known as the "comical" hub for it,s extremely poor stopping power and was dropped in 72 in favour of a Lockheed disc.
The CCM,s do look and sound the dogs danglies,made from the remains of the BSA comp shop, but were a vastly overstretched C15/B40 and a nightmare to own/race. A big improvement was the Rickman (designed by Weslake) 4V head