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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

This one was a 750 in black & gold with Dunstall bodywork. A bit like riding a tractor by modern standards but it outhandled all the new fangled Jap stuff on the bends. The vibrations at speed were bad enough to really numb the fingers which made it a bit of a mission to stay in control of the thing. By comparison, I found the Triumph Trident a much better bike altogether, but this was the mid 70,s so they were both already museum pieces by then. Jap bikes were already far better, apart from the dodgy handling, and as someone said to me at the time "wheres the fun in a bike that handles well ?" which I could kind of see the logic in. Although it was in a pub late at night and we were both pissed. The bloke who said it is dead now btw. He gave up bikes and took up serious drinking. His liver was Donald before he got to 50.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

This one was a 750 in black & gold with Dunstall bodywork. A bit like riding a tractor by modern standards but it outhandled all the new fangled Jap stuff on the bends. The vibrations at speed were bad enough to really numb the fingers which made it a bit of a mission to stay in control of the thing. By comparison, I found the Triumph Trident a much better bike altogether, but this was the mid 70,s so they were both already museum pieces by then. Jap bikes were already far better, apart from the dodgy handling, and as someone said to me at the time "wheres the fun in a bike that handles well ?" which I could kind of see the logic in. Although it was in a pub late at night and we were both pissed. The bloke who said it is dead now btw. He gave up bikes and took up serious drinking. His liver was Donald before he got to 50.

Brit bikes of that era were certainly crude and agricultural but by and large they generally 'outhandled' what we called jap crap.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Speaking of the Triumph Trident I still hanker after an original BSA Rocket 3........complete with fishtail exhaust.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

https://youtu.be/HbI9CTnQwIM

[BazaJT]

The present day Trident is a proper monster of a bike!

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Back in the day a mate of my Dads used to race an ex works rocket 3 on the Irish road circuits. He was clocked at around165mph on it at the NW200, which was pretty good in the mid 70,s. At the time he was in his late 40,s and was a police motorcycle cop.
He turned up on a sunday afternoon to where all us teenage Barry Sheene wannabes hung out, on some bike or other and asked us if we fancied going for a wee ride out. We all set off thinking we would ride rings around this old fart. We didn't see which way he went.
He was waiting at the pub 25 miles away about to order his second drink by the time we got there. He was a hero to me after that.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Back in the day a mate of my Dads used to race an ex works rocket 3 on the Irish road circuits. He was clocked at around165mph on it at the NW200, which was pretty good in the mid 70,s. At the time he was in his late 40,s and was a police motorcycle cop.
He turned up on a sunday afternoon to where all us teenage Barry Sheene wannabes hung out, on some bike or other and asked us if we fancied going for a wee ride out. We all set off thinking we would ride rings around this old fart. We didn't see which way he went.
He was waiting at the pub 25 miles away about to order his second drink by the time we got there. He was a hero to me after that.

Sounds a bit like 'Slippery Sam' which I believe was a racing Trident.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Don't believe it was Slippery Sam, but one of its stablemates from the Transatlantic UK v USA series iirc.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Lord Opti's new Kawasaki! 

Just right for a 'dashing young blade' like him! 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Lord Opti's new Kawasaki! 

Just right for a 'dashing young blade' like him! 

What's not to like.

Nitrous too.

Not sure how it would handle high speed bends though.

[STEMO]

You'd hear that pulling up outside the post office. 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I would love to have that in the shed, ready for my impending dotage !

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I would love to have that in the shed, ready for my impending dotage !

I imagine you and STMO will soon reside at the same 'home for the terminally bewildered'

You'll be able to take the old boy to the post office for his pension.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Take him to the post office and nick his pension more like.

[STEMO]

Take him to the post office and nick his pension more like.

I'm a tech savvy pensioner. My state pension goes into one of my current accounts and is immediately transferred to a savings account 

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