pre65 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2018 6:33 am
Baggo, do I spy a Mikuni carb on the VH ?
Yes Philip, it's a VM32 round slide Mikuni. I avoid anything Amal if I can. The head has been ported and flowed and sports a Goldie inlet valve and exhaust. Plus 80 Omega piston and lots of other examples of what used to be known as "demon tweaks". It's a great bike (and a very under-rated model as I'm sure you know) and the handling on Roadriders is as good as anything this side of a Featherbed. I manage to do about 1300 miles a year on Continental holidays and have done the Picos 5000 Curves rally with it, so it's quite tractable as well as being quick for its type - have managed 100mph between the Creg and Gob ny Geay which, admittedly, is slightly downhill but hey, we have a combined age of nearly 140 so we need all the help we can get!
All old farts have "senior moments" and I get more than my fair share but my condition is worse because I also have "adolescent moments" in which I imagine I'm back at the Ace again and heading up to Watford and the
Busy Bee or down to Johnson's near Brands Hatch, both scenes of my yoof when the world was a very different and much more pleasant place. I love the Ariel but it is just not quite up this lunatic behaviour so occasionally I wake up the neighbours with the machine below. I'm really getting too old for this sort of nonsense.
Last of the late brakers.