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KB171
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BSA 250
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July 16, 2008, 10:01:11 pm »
Leon Steet,1958 ish the only photo my mate had to work from to restore this bike.
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KB171
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Re: BSA 250
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July 16, 2008, 10:09:30 pm »
Fair effort ey.
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KB171
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KB171
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Tony T
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July 16, 2008, 10:19:24 pm »
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.
I don't know a lot about them though. Is that a C11 or C10?
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KB171
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Re: BSA 250
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July 16, 2008, 10:29:43 pm »
Buggered if i know mate ,I'll find out. She aint got a lot of travel back end has it
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firko
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July 16, 2008, 10:44:29 pm »
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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VMX247
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Re: BSA 250
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July 16, 2008, 10:50:04 pm »
Just so many nice bikes around .
What state are you in (australia of course)??
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KB171
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July 16, 2008, 10:58:25 pm »
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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firko
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Re: BSA 250
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July 16, 2008, 11:18:49 pm »
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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KB171
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July 17, 2008, 08:13:07 pm »
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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mx250
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July 18, 2008, 10:01:14 am »
Quote from: KB171 on July 16, 2008, 10:09:30 pm
Fair effort ey.
Did you notice the little dovalackey on the front wheel of the bike on the left to keep the knobs clean of mud
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Freakshow
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July 18, 2008, 12:29:52 pm »
GEez looking at that foto they must have punnished those front ends
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KB171
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Re: BSA 250
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July 18, 2008, 05:58:15 pm »
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,
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VMX247
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July 18, 2008, 06:06:52 pm »
gotta like the hangon grip for the passenger.
rider takes no part in passengers saftey hold situation
hhooolllyyyy shiiiittttt
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