Bl**dy 'L - this seems very cheap for an RE-5?

Rubbish, Francis Barnett, James and a whole raft of
manufacturers using Villiers engines just about all of them
cheaper than BSA. You are entitled to your opinion but you could
try getting your facts right.

British Motorcycles of the 40s and 50s lists 70 plus
manufacturers.

Ken Young

 

(Anton Gijsen)
wrote:

Then why did Velocette drop that?

Ken Young

 

You could try comparing the size of the Japanese and British
home markets IIRC the Japanese were selling over a million new
bikes at home per year, but your statement above contains two
errors. BSA made considerable investment in state of the art
production machinery. They also made a considerable investment in
developing new products, Umberslade Park cost them plenty. What
did BSA in was trying to update their entire production line in
one season. The failure to complete this in time for the US
selling season did them in.

Ken Young

 

Unlike the Japanese bikes I owned in the 70s with horrible
tyres. I still have memories of the timing slipping on a Yamaha
twin.

Ken Young

 

BSA guaranteed to supply parts for all models for at least 20
years after production of them ceased.

Ken Young

 

said...

All were shite.

....and all were shite.

 

said...

**** me, it's a miracle you can see a pc monitor through those rose
tinted specs.

One bike's timing slips and all Japanese bikes are shit because of it.
My, that's really looking at the big picture.

 

Sounds more than reasonable reasonable. I'm not looking to restore it,
I'd prefer to ride the fucking thing. If it's simply a case of a lick of
paint here and there and some new tyres then I can live with that!
Whereabouts are you?

I bet you do. Too much plastic for my liking on that thing, and no twin
seat. Bet it absolutely flew, though.

 

Anton Gijsen said...

Possibly, this one's clueless too.

 

It dropped the contents of the sump on the way home after he'd
collected it, to, iirc.

 

Nah, it can't possibly be me, I've got better things to do than waste
petrol by riding up and down the same road all day.
What makes you say he's clueless, have you actually talked to him?

 

Mark said...

What about a Vincent of today?.....oh I forgot, they don't build them
anymore...

 

http://www.lm-spares.co.uk/acatalog/Yamaha.html

Have a chainguard and a red lhs side panel.

not new, but that's your fault for owning a ShiteOldYamaha.

 

<Hollow laugh>

****, you crack me up, you do.
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Did I say that? Japanese tyres were shite, presumably it never
rains or freezes in Japan.

Ken Young

 

I'd be surprised if they're all completely unavailable. I needed a new
side panel for my son's 1989 DT50MX recently, and it was still listed
as a stock part. Only cost about £16, too.

 

Interestingly Honda had a policy, right into the late 1980s, that *any*
part for *any* Honda bike ever made should be available. I remember
Honda's parts supremo telling me that some bod wanted a tank badge for
some early sixties thing, and they actually made one by hand.

Obviously, there was a price :-/

Honda ditched that scheme in the late 1980s, because obviously it was
unsustainable, but their parts supply is bloody good, even so. And it's
helped by people like Dave Silver visiting Japan and asking the OEM
suppliers to keep the production lines running.

Even now, I can get a brand new seat and brand new OE exhaust system
for my 30 year-old 400 Four.

 

On 27 Apr 2006 03:23:44 -0700, TOG@Toil,

But not a rear mudguard...

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Heh. True. But they were available up until a couple of years ago.....

 

Heh. True. But they were available up until a couple of years ago.....[/QUOTE]

Where "couple" = five, at least.

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