A10 look alike

[WozzA]

I was going through some OLD photos & came across these 40+ year old pics of my old Kwaka W2...    A10 look alike

[tombeau]

Nice.
I got some photos of a very clean one at one of our bike meets a few years ago. I took a lot of detail pics if people are interested. Here it is next to mine.
It was quite funny, I'd never seen one of these and the owner had never seen an A10.

Cheers.

[gavinoz]

It was quite funny, I'd never seen one of these and the owner had never seen an A10.

Thanks Tombeau, The engineer who is doing my reboring showed me a frame and engine and said 'what did I think of that' and I had an 'am i dickhead' moment because it looked a bit like an A10 but wasnt right. I even  asked him what it was!
it was one of these. Clever these Japanese. (The Germans said when seeing a bantam 'Clever these British' in the same tone I imagine!!)

[tombeau]

They copied the brake pedal/crossover shaft/brake cable. Guess they thought it was a good idea.

[WozzA]

Actually after a bit of research I found out mine was a W1SA as pictured..
With the exception of the brake on the Left & gear change on the Right...

[tombeau]

That gear linkage looks an awful compromise.

[bsa-bill]

had a ride on one last summer, belongs to my wife's cousin ( he has two plus lots of other stuff), good ride actually, my first venture for many years on a cack handed bike if I'm honest but I got on OK, sorry to say much smoother than my A's but there again much younger too

[a101960]

my first venture for many years on a cack handed bike if I'm honest but I got on OK

I have never been able to adapt to left handed gear shifts. For a short while I had a Honda CB 350 that I bought for use as a go to work on bike. I was able to manage if I had plenty of thinking time, but for me it was never intuative. If I had to brake hurriedly I always found myself stamping on the gear pedal. I soon got rid of the Honda and went back to using the car.

John

[Greybeard]

my first venture for many years on a cack handed bike if I'm honest but I got on OK

I have never been able to adapt to left handed gear shifts. For a short while I had a Honda CB 350 that I bought for use as a go to work on bike. I was able to manage if I had plenty of thinking time, but for me it was never intuative. If I had to brake hurriedly I always found myself stamping on the gear pedal. I soon got rid of the Honda and went back to using the car.

John

I once worked at a Honda/Puch/bicycle repair shop. We had to be able to jump on our own brit bikes after riding foreigners all day. We just got used to it.

Neil Ives UK

[duTch]

  I got to know a couple who lived next to people i knew in the '70's, they had Nortons, but their mate had one of these, he left town, and the bike and the couple found another, and we used to go for Sunday jaunts.
   One thing we used to do was head out past the airport and do second gear 'roll-ons', me old Road Rocket (RRT2), left em dead every time......!!!! Geez it sounded good at 70+mph in second.!!

[Butch (cb)]

I was interested to find that the Kawa H1 KH500 I'm working on at the moment has the facility to swap the two sides around. I was tempted to set it up as a right hooker (to be bloody minded really - I'm used to both sides and both patterns), but you do need specifically 'sexed' pedals for the swap over. 

[A10Boy]

I have both japanese and Brits, after a while you get used to it and changes are purely intuitive. If you start thinking about it while riding, you will get mixed up.   

[fido]

I never had a problem with left or right gearchange but in the late '70s I had a Triumph 250 Blazer and a Francis Barnett Villiers thing. The FB was only 3 speed and the lever worked the opposite way to the Triumph, which was my "daily driver". The poor Villiers engine would scream it's head off when I went from 2nd to 1st instead of 3rd!