Not sure Peter is but I do like the bsa 😂

No they are all the same. Horrible!

@ I partly put it down to being a teenager and going flat out on whatever I rode but perhaps your right.

I borrowed a near-new Jawa 350 combination from a generous work colleague in the late 70’s or early 80s, when I was too skint to afford a vehicle of any description. I loved it. It pulled well, cruised at 50mph on the motorway (I rode it from Ilford to Fordingbridge and back) and handled really well. I could do the trick of getting the chair up in the air to about 45 degrees and keeping it there while riding along. This was the equivalent of riding a bicycle with hands off the handlebars. An early 1900s edition of Brown Brothers Cycle Accessories Catalogue summed it up perfectly: “Riding hands off is nothing but cheap swank. Any fool can do it, and only fools do”. I owned combinations as well as solos during the 1960s, and I remember well how safe and stable they were on roads covered in compacted snow, when my pals on solos were riding very slowly and very carefully, except for one idiot who decided to ride at speed. We picked him and his bike up after the inevitable, and he immediately proceeded to do the same again. This time we left him to sort himself out.

His son is a disgrace to the name.

If you don't understand it - you never will.

I had a similar road BSA in the late seventies, a Starfire that was so perky it tempted you to use it's power to keep up with mate's 650's and then it'd go 'supernova' and need work. We used to joke that it looked just like the pictures in the workshop manual.... you know, the 'exploded diagrams'.... But it was a funbike for a youngster. There were always loads of parts available but not the parts you needed as they were the bits that failed..... happy days going around London's bike shops on the tube and buses in search of whatever you needed.... all those bike shops are long gone now !

yep...overpriced.