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Steering dampers and FF1
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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 8539" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p><strong>Drilled steering heads</strong></p><p></p><p>I was with DW (we were racing at Cadwell in 1975????) when he picked up the Shadow forks from Tony Maughan. I think therefore that "my" bike has "my" forks. Although 1) that's not certain and 2) I don't care.</p><p>(Highlight of the trip was going to a pub, as we did in those days lest we suffer the curse of sobriety, after the fork collection (in the dark, I stayed in the van), somewhere in Lincs, when I suddenly realised that the person I was looking at in the bar ,was Tony Blackburn, in a blue velvet jacket. He was surrounded by the sort of girls that I imagine would fancy David Cameron. Or Cliff Richard. I said to David "Hey, that's Tony Blackburn" and he said "Oh! Who's he?". There is no answer to that now. Or then.)</p><p>So far as I know, your bike was built using Dick Sutherland bits. This was in the days when building a bike that went like SoaS, as BTS 62 always did, was judged more important than having matching numbers. I vividly remember riding back from the Southern 100 in 1975 and on the Moffat road realising that BTS 62 had a motor 10 % faster than it's chassis could cope with, and, mercifully, only marginally less than I could cope with. It did however help me develop a small toroidal muscle low in the body that when I reached Balerno could cut 1/2" iron bars. </p><p></p><p>I'd rather hoped to provoke "the old guard" into saying that drilled forks lasted from noon xx/yy/19zz to noon, aa/bb/19cc, but no takers yet.</p><p></p><p>You'll be at Applecross in June? And if not, it'll have to be a really good excuse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 8539, member: 4034"] [b]Drilled steering heads[/b] I was with DW (we were racing at Cadwell in 1975????) when he picked up the Shadow forks from Tony Maughan. I think therefore that "my" bike has "my" forks. Although 1) that's not certain and 2) I don't care. (Highlight of the trip was going to a pub, as we did in those days lest we suffer the curse of sobriety, after the fork collection (in the dark, I stayed in the van), somewhere in Lincs, when I suddenly realised that the person I was looking at in the bar ,was Tony Blackburn, in a blue velvet jacket. He was surrounded by the sort of girls that I imagine would fancy David Cameron. Or Cliff Richard. I said to David "Hey, that's Tony Blackburn" and he said "Oh! Who's he?". There is no answer to that now. Or then.) So far as I know, your bike was built using Dick Sutherland bits. This was in the days when building a bike that went like SoaS, as BTS 62 always did, was judged more important than having matching numbers. I vividly remember riding back from the Southern 100 in 1975 and on the Moffat road realising that BTS 62 had a motor 10 % faster than it's chassis could cope with, and, mercifully, only marginally less than I could cope with. It did however help me develop a small toroidal muscle low in the body that when I reached Balerno could cut 1/2" iron bars. I'd rather hoped to provoke "the old guard" into saying that drilled forks lasted from noon xx/yy/19zz to noon, aa/bb/19cc, but no takers yet. You'll be at Applecross in June? And if not, it'll have to be a really good excuse. [/QUOTE]
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