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Marque Remarks => British (BSA, Greeves, Triumph etc) => Topic started by: KB171 on July 16, 2008, 10:01:11 pm
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Leon Steet,1958 ish the only photo my mate had to work from to restore this bike.(http://i34.tinypic.com/34s1qp2.jpg)
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Fair effort ey.(http://i35.tinypic.com/280uwx1.jpg)
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(http://i33.tinypic.com/15raw6b.jpg)
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(http://i36.tinypic.com/2d2du9w.jpg)
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That's cool, KB!
I can't see it happening now, but my Dad had a C12 in the mid 50's so I would have loved to make a MXer out of one.
Thanks for that. ;D
I don't know a lot about them though. Is that a C11 or C10?
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Buggered if i know mate ,I'll find out. She aint got a lot of travel back end has it :)
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Just gorgeous. What a sweet restoration. Is Leon Street any relation to Neil Street, father of the 4 valve speedway engine?My only criticism is that the bike needs a set of knobbys or at least trials tyres.
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Just so many nice bikes around .
What state are you in (australia of course)??
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Yes, Neils brother Firko, the photos where taken at Little River Road race Reunion in VIC a couple of weeks ago,The bike was built in record time for the the event,in which it was raced back in the 50's.
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You've gotta love the suspension travel, or lack of it. The guys who rode these things were iron men. I remember seeing a bloke at a vintage meet in the US a few years getting serious air on a rigid Ariel. He jumped that thing as long and as hard as the guys with suspension for lap after lap.When he came in I couldn't believe that he was a skinny little Pom, about 55 years old with no visible muscle tone. The first thing he did when he got off the bike was to light up a gasper and knock the top off a Bud lite! The guy was amazing, as is anybody who'd race a motocross bike with no bloody suspension at all.
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The bike is a 1939 B21 Deluxe Mdl a scaled down empire star,the owner cant even find a photo of an original factory one,they are in the rocking horse shit department ;)
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Fair effort ey.(http://i35.tinypic.com/280uwx1.jpg)
Did you notice the little dovalackey on the front wheel of the bike on the left to keep the knobs clean of mud :o 8)
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GEez looking at that foto they must have punnished those front ends
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The bike on the left is also owned and built by the same bloke its a genuine ISDT 500 Goldstar and its got plenty of neat extras on it,like a compressed air tank on the lefthand side for pumping up flats,a magnified watch in the gauge, it's a work of art .I'm buggered if i know how they wrestled these heavy old bikes in the mud and shite for 6 days ,gotta have been tough,(http://i33.tinypic.com/2h89yqa.jpg)(http://i37.tinypic.com/16bbp0w.jpg)(http://i33.tinypic.com/29ztus7.jpg)
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gotta like the hangon grip for the passenger. :o
rider takes no part in passengers saftey hold situation :D hhooolllyyyy shiiiittttt
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They didn't have passengers on board in the ISDT's but they would've come in handy draggin the bikes outa the mud i spose ;)
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Graeme....You know how they rode those bikes full hog for six days? Those bikes were the best you could get in their time and the riders knew no better. It was as easy for them as it is for a modern rider on a slick KTM. You do what you have to do with the tools you have at your disposal. I went as hard on my Sherpa S in 1969 as a young C grader does on his CR/YZ/KX/RM today and I bet I felt just as rooted after it was all over as my modern counterpart does today.