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I drooled over British motorcycles - Triumph, BSA, Matchless, Vellocette,
Norton, and the like. I considered the Isle of Man a holy place worthy of
a pilgrimage because of the motorcycle races there.

I kind of remember in the mid sixties the IoM being won a few times by a
British rider...Mike Halewood (sp?), even if he rode something Italian like
MV Augusta.

My first 'real' bike was a Raliegh 3 speed. And ya know what? Strumey Archer
3 speed hubs were [censored], oh excuse me, I guess it would be [censored]. I also had
a Raleigh Super Tour made from Reynolds 531, but the assembly must have been
done by apprentices. But to me it was 531 and the price was right and I
could overlook the less than beautiful brazing and file. It was kind of hard
to ignore the the huge shimmy at 30 mph though.

fwiw I went to college with a guy who had a Vincent. Compared to the Honda
Triumph knock-offs that was a kick ass moto.

Tom Sherman said:

Remember, it was the Japanese who invented the first properly designed
rear derailleur (Suntour), the cassette hub (Shimano), indexed
shifting (Shimano), the linear pull brake (Shimano) and the
reasonably priced component group that worked well (Shimano and
Suntour).

Up to a point, Lord Copper. The first linear pull brake I ever saw was on
one of Mike Burrows' monocoque TT bikes; he'd come up with the idea as the
brake most easily concealed behind the fork blades. This was, IIRC, in the
mid-80's. My grate frend gNick made a set for the Gnash circa 1991, at
which time mountain bikes were still using cantilevers.

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Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
World Domination?
Just find a world that's into that kind of thing, then chain to the
floor and walk up and down on it in high heels. (Mr. Sunshine)

harv said:

I kind of remember in the mid sixties the IoM being won a few times
by a British rider...Mike Halewood (sp?), even if he rode something
Italian like MV Augusta.

Mike "The Bike" Hailwood won 14 TTs between 1961 and 1979, for Honda,
Norton, MV Agusta, Ducati and Suzuki.

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Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
World Domination?
Just find a world that's into that kind of thing, then chain to the
floor and walk up and down on it in high heels. (Mr. Sunshine)