Sorry folks--a bit more.
There seems to be a resurgence of interest in Pre60/65 ,and an increasing number of bikes such as Monark,Lito, Husky[4 str] etc,and even talk of a Hedlund.Metisse is of course always a factor.All this is great for the future,and with the split in the Nats for 2012 the time is ripe for greater support & encouragement for these wonderfull machines.
However it would only take another Grayson/Cheney episode to undo all the good prospects.
Having been through that sorry saga, raced in UK, Sweden & USA and studied the good and bad points, we should be able to avoid the pitfalls.
Should any of the above machines,[or replicas] ,including Metisse be exposed to the same blowtorch scrutiny,including millimetre accurate replica components, photographic evidence,
etc. as Grayson's bike,we can kiss it all goodby.When I asked Nils Hedland for a spec on a Hedlund frame his comment--"they're nearly all different" Same applies to most early "specials"
It's not about the rules,it's about commonsence and the "big picture"