Wife of the Century

[Jack]

What a difference a few years makes

After paying my wife out for not getting me a birthday present she goes and out does herself by buy me this its a 1939 BSA M20 500cc sidevalve 99% complete and running although I be buggered if I can get it to start.

I wonder if she realises what she has started

Wonder what it would look like in blue




Jack :-:

 

[bitontheside]

jack

You going to do it up or just ride it as is? looks nice!

 

[roXXo]

I hope you enjoy it Jack.
I used to enjoy messing about with old bikes (case of having to).
Anyway IMHO I reckon you should do the absolute minimum to the bike to keep it running. I hate restored/over restored bikes and their anally retentive owners who trailer bikes to shows and critcise other bikes for not having the correct zinc plated washers and all the other crap they come out with.
Ride it, repair it and enjoy it. Don't do a restoration job.

:beer:

 

[Zoffo]

And in typical Brit bike style...it's dripping oil all over your garage floor already:}

 

[bitontheside]

I hope you enjoy it Jack.
I used to enjoy messing about with old bikes (case of having to).
Anyway IMHO I reckon you should do the absolute minimum to the bike to keep it running. I hate restored/over restored bikes and their anally retentive owners who trailer bikes to shows and critcise other bikes for not having the correct zinc plated washers and all the other crap they come out with.
Ride it, repair it and enjoy it. Don't do a restoration job.

:beer:

Yeah, gotta agree with roXXo - just get it running and use it for sunny Sunday afternoon's. What am I on about - I can't remember the last sunny Sunday afternoon! :cry:

 

[roXXo]

BOTS

What am I on about - I can't remember the last sunny Sunday afternoon! :cry:

They tell me your memory goes when you're in your 50th year.
I bet you can remember what you had for your birthday tea in 1964 though, and how much a packet of fish and chips was in 1970.
:neenaw:

That F2 sidecar guy was Dave Molyneux
:beer:

 

[derek kelly]

how much a packet of fish and chips was in 1970.

36p from our local chippy, and they were cooked in dripping & served in newspaper :lick:

 

[Jack]

You going to do it up or just ride it as is? looks nice!

Just clean it up and replace the worn out bits but thats about all

so far needs a speedo and cable total rewire complete exhaust mirror and seat cover and a few bolts here and there.


Jack :-:

 

[Jack]

36p from our local chippy, and they were cooked in dripping & served in newspaper :lick:

now thay were the days I remember eating a steaming newspaper wrapped cod and chips (real ones too not these frozen potato like things today) waiting for the bus after school in Leeds life was so simple then.


Jack :-: