Brad, I could sense the smile when I posted the photos of a couple of Jawas earlier in the thread
. As I said to you offline, that bike is a genuine one owner jewel, owned by one of the most knowledgable Jawa two stroke guys on the planet, Dave Morris. It's your bike so you can paint it passion pink if you like but seeing that it's such a well preserved survivor, it'd be a shame to restore all of that hard earned patina out of it. If it were mine I'd be leaving it just as it is. Restoration often sucks the soul right out of a bike....and trust me Brad, this bike has a ton of soul. Congratulations mate.....but one small thing. Is there a hope that your dad might ride the Jawa in pre 60 and give us old punters a sporting chance
. Now all we need is someone to buy Gus's Adler and pre 60 will start to look interesting.
have a 350 and a 500.in the late 70s early 80s there were some iron 500 ariels in featherbed frames they were faster than most manx nortons and g50 matchos.corish ariels i think they were called.if you didnt through bolt them and run hi comp and methenol they blew the tops off.
Jimmy, there wasn't a lot of original Ariel parts left inside the Corish bikes mate. They were, for all intended purposes ESO/Jawa speedway engines with an Ariel "skin". For motocross, the HS or Red Hunter is fine in stock or semi stock tune. While the Corish Ariels were cool bikes, the Corish family were low life scumbags. They did time for stealing old Allen Burts AJS 7R and rare as rocking horse shit Matchless G45 twin. The bikes were never recovered and poor old Allen was never the same bloke again. He loved those bikes and died a broken man. It was a disgraceful thing to do to a brother racer, especially one that trusted them.
