Hi, my name is Ken and I'm a bikeaholic.
This is my story and why I have joined this group...
I have just agreed to purchase a 1952 Star Twin 500, in bits. Most of the main bits of the bike are present, but not the rear mudguard or the engine internals. The frame and engine numbers tally with the '52 model year, so I should be able to register it - shouldn't I?
I just couldn't help myself, you see I used to ride a BSA as a teen (see avatar/pic), but that was many summers and many bikes in the past. I have had a yearning to get back into BSAs for a good many years now, but it seems that good ones command high prices...
Anyway, here I am wondering if I have made a wise decision...
I convinced myself that I should get a Beeza sooner rather than later. There is a possibility that I might add a vintage sidecar to the bike at some time - I have a late 30s Swallow coachbult and an early 60s Monza Sport - I could get away with mounting the Monza on my '79 GS850, but the Swallow would look better on an older bike...
I lived in Canada most of my adult life, and as it happens only some 50 miles from the British Cycle Supply Company in NS. I came to the UK in '06 and now live in Surrey.
I am surrounded by a bunch of other older bikes from Japan, Germany, France and the US - nothing particularly old or rare; I also have some old cars - a '55 Austin A30, a '55 Wolseley 4/44 and a '66 Austin A35 van; I restore old filling station gas/petrol pumps, and as you can probably tell, I spend a good amount of time banging things in my workshop; there is a nasty rumour going around that I was breast-fed engine oil as a baby, and run a sanctuary for old, unloved and unwanted motorcycles...
Anyway, so here I am!
