Recent content by lancepar

My reason for remembering foil topped school milk was while drinking straight from the bottle one day I got bumped and chipped one of my front teeth. Seventy years later still got the tooth but it wears a cap these days. ;)

To answer a couple of questions. Keeping the condition as it is, it gets a oily rag wipe over the rusty parts now and then. Regarding the ram air effect, If it does then I don't notice it at the speeds I ride it at on grass. I'll master 3rd gear one day. And although street legal I've not...

My latest Exhibit is a little Guzzino 2t, nearly original, imported from Italy in Jan 2026. Nice and light for transport. Works well, still not good with the hand change though. And it's as old as me. :cool:

My Arrow was already messed about when I had it. It was the 1st 2t I had as a teenager. Silly me tried some reverse cone silencers,o_O Sounded great but went crap, weren't on long.

People at Avery's might remember me and Arthur Cornwall who looked after the lifting ropes and chains walking in all the departments and offices every 6 months. Arthur was my escort from the Maintenance Dept, I was an Insurance Surveyor carrying out Statutory inspections of everything connected...

Brummies who moved to the USA. Every now and then I think about a teenage friend I had, who the last time we talked was leaving Brum and parents to live in America with relations. To avoid being enrolled as a Grunt at the time of the American envolvment in the Vietnam War (1965) he was going to...

My Aunt worked there, see post number 92. Lance

Have a laugh. Me and the Velosolex I exhibit at Steam and Vintage Shows. This one has no throttle and no clutch, true start-stop- start motoring.

I didn't have my Tiger Cub long enough to have an opinion. First RTC. bike and car guess which came off worst, apart from my injuries. :worried:

My Navigator was replaced with an Atlas. Wish I still had it. On Hols at Kennack Sands with mates, great times.

Great photo DaveA. Any motorcyclists on this thread visit Stourbridge on their bikes in the 60'? :cool:

I had the 350 Navigator and removed the fairing. Worth more with the fairing these days. :cool:

All I can add is a photo of my 1957 BSA M21, folks on this thread must have contributed to its build. Once was in service with the AA. Bostin old bike.

I've had my M21 a few years now, once upon a time it had a yellow tank and sidecar. I'm not going to say who, as recently took em nearly 10 hours to get my classic car 10 miles home and they also diagnosed the issue wrong.:mask:

Interesting thread, my only connection was visiting and sharing the place with two other surveyors every 6 months, IanJ and FrankE when we worked for Eagle Star in the 70's. I did C Zone and they did A and B Zones as we split it up between us. I didn't have a Mill yippee. My area included the...