This didn't 'follow me home'. I rode it home.

1961 A10 Golden Flash.

Looks like a nice, honest, old workhorse

I bet it smells nice !

I had one. Not anywhere near as nice, but it cost me £40 over 50 years ago and chugged along nicely. I rode it to the magistrates court, got banned for 12 months, and rode back home again. Those were the days

nice! Heres mine of the same vintage

Enclosed drive chain....why they ever got rid of them is beyond belief!

Onder said:

Enclosed drive chain....why they ever got rid of them is beyond belief!

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Birds....



Cheep... cheep.... cheep

Onder said:

Enclosed drive chain....why they ever got rid of them is beyond belief!

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Americans considered them stodgy looking and a pain in the arse to deal with. After the rear section fell off on the road most just ditched it entirely and put someting else (or nothing) on. Perhaps the factory took note and saved us Yanks the trouble.

Well I guess fork gaiters got tossed for the same reason. Young studs need to be hip, Just like their girlfriends grabbing the latest fashion even if it make them look silly. Reality need not get involved.

Onder said:

Well I guess fork gaiters got tossed for the same reason. Young studs need to be hip, Just like their girlfriends grabbing the latest fashion even if it make them look silly. Reality need not get involved.

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That's exactly what I had done on my first bike in 1972 , a BSA A 50 of 1963 , the metal fork gaiters anf the cowl head lamp were put in the bin and replaced with rubber gaiters and chrome headlight , to get the 1969 look , I was 17 and long hairs ....wonderfull summer , with a long trip to the south of France to meet girl friends , at the end of summer , the bottom end seized , next year I went to Bohemia Garage ( a kind of junkyard near Storrington owned by Dave Crouch) and he fit a 650 Thunderbolt in the frame (we had put the bike in the back of my father's car and we were living in St Malo just near by the Ferry to Portsmouth) , that engine stay fit for about 6 months (may be less) , that was the end of my love affair with Birmingham , next one will be a Norton and it happens in 1974 ! I still have it (the bike ) but not the girl friend and the long hairs ....