Caution: Old guys reminiscing
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
This is me at 18 and a day, years old. Cause I spent my 18th birthday upgrading my "under 150cc" endorsement, to "any CC motorcycle". And this is the bike I brought home. I'm dying hearing all the Lucas stories! Lucky for me the PO on my slightly used '77 Triumph Tiger 750 had already installed a battery eliminator kit. So at least half the gremlins were already gone!
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From: Michigan 15 Minutes East Of Hell
You know what funny about the whole Lucas thing ? Never had a electrical issue with any of the BSA's I had. One of them had sat for 6 years with a dead battery, fired on the 3rd kick and had that same dead battery in it when I sold it years later and she never failed to start on 3 kicks or less.
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You know what funny about the whole Lucas thing ? Never had a electrical issue with any of the BSA's I had. One of them had sat for 6 years with a dead battery, fired on the 3rd kick and had that same dead battery in it when I sold it years later and she never failed to start on 3 kicks or less.
I heard rumors of you over the years. The ancients tell stories of the man with the only BSA that never caught fire, broke down, and always started on the third kick. I though you were just a myth they told to little kids to give them hope. But this is way cooler!
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Sorry man, I just had to.
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Damn...... so your the one!
I heard rumors of you over the years. The ancients tell stories of the man with the only BSA that never caught fire, broke down, and always started on the third kick. I though you were just a myth they told to little kids to give them hope. But this is way cooler!
😄
Sorry man, I just had to.
I heard rumors of you over the years. The ancients tell stories of the man with the only BSA that never caught fire, broke down, and always started on the third kick. I though you were just a myth they told to little kids to give them hope. But this is way cooler!
😄
Sorry man, I just had to.
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
Damn...... so your the one!
I heard rumors of you over the years. The ancients tell stories of the man with the only BSA that never caught fire, broke down, and always started on the third kick. I though you were just a myth they told to little kids to give them hope. But this is way cooler!
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Sorry man, I just had to.
I heard rumors of you over the years. The ancients tell stories of the man with the only BSA that never caught fire, broke down, and always started on the third kick. I though you were just a myth they told to little kids to give them hope. But this is way cooler!
��
Sorry man, I just had to.
Regret ever selling that bike. And yeah your fingers always smelled like gas . Fixed a boat load of sparky problems on Trumps and few Norton's.
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And in order to "turn on the gas" you had to turn the shut-off **** that goes through the left tank counter clockwise so that you have gas going to the carb
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Since back on page one OldBoy mentioned a 500 BSA, here's my mid sixties BSA story. I guy I rode with at the time was known as Party Marty. Marty rode a BSA semi chopper/rat bike. Semi chopper, to be kind, because he chopped off the front fender, bobbed the rear, with a hacksaw and no file or sandpaper. Apes, king/queen seat and tall sissy bar.
Now the rat bike part; Well anyone with a nickname of Party in the sixties did a lot of drugs, and Marty dressed the part too. Tye dye tee shirts, wide leather belt holding up bellbottom jeans. So of course his bells would hang up on the pegs or kicker and over he would go. The bike took a lot of tumbles.
Even back in my youth I thought that a cooked calf from a hot header would burn through the haze of ludes or orange sunshine and convince Marty to start wearing boot cut jeans but no, form over function. He just had to look the part.
The last time I saw him was about '68 or '69. This was in the Passaic Park area of NJ. So Marty if you're still out there riding a Harley post here about the seat mount.
Now the rat bike part; Well anyone with a nickname of Party in the sixties did a lot of drugs, and Marty dressed the part too. Tye dye tee shirts, wide leather belt holding up bellbottom jeans. So of course his bells would hang up on the pegs or kicker and over he would go. The bike took a lot of tumbles.
Even back in my youth I thought that a cooked calf from a hot header would burn through the haze of ludes or orange sunshine and convince Marty to start wearing boot cut jeans but no, form over function. He just had to look the part.
The last time I saw him was about '68 or '69. This was in the Passaic Park area of NJ. So Marty if you're still out there riding a Harley post here about the seat mount.
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Bead blast restoration wore the letters down. Next time I get down there, will try to post a frame number. Been talking to the owner. He is a real Harley fan. Think he owns the local dealership. He has the bike in this shop to distract men so the ladies can sell the finishing products to the wives. RIP came out with a whole bag of samples.