What have you done with your bike/s today?

[Bodger paul]

Spent some  time on my recently purchased 1953 A7...Been sat a couple of years so drained the petrol,cleaned the tank and filled with fresh petrol. While the tank was off i checked valve clearences which were all a little tight. All good now. Checked all lights and put some air in the tyres. Think its now ready for my first ride...Looking forward to that but have to get used to the gear lever on the right as ive only ever ridded japanese bikes upto now...Should be interesting...

[muskrat]

Spent some  time on my recently purchased 1953 A7...Been sat a couple of years so drained the petrol,cleaned the tank and filled with fresh petrol. While the tank was off i checked valve clearences which were all a little tight. All good now. Checked all lights and put some air in the tyres. Think its now ready for my first ride...Looking forward to that but have to get used to the gear lever on the right as ive only ever ridded japanese bikes upto now...Should be interesting...

I still mess up now and then after 43 years of riding the A7  The A10 Cafe is reversed (one down three up) then there's the rHonda, Yamahahaha and Highly Dangerous. The first corner is interesting and sometimes an hour or more into a ride 
Cheers

[Worty]

I'd go with that.  A10, one up, three down on the right.  Kwaka, one down, four up on the left.

Always made more sense with Japanese bikes - clutch on same side as gear lever, both brakes on same side and, after 1st, you go 'up' the gears.  The A10, completely opposite.

Don'tcha just love the thinking of BSA engineers.

I too have had the 'oh shit' moments on both bikes.

[Bodger paul]

Moving the A7 around the garden today i thought it was down on power...I had selecter 2nd instead of first  ....Think i`ll find a quiet car park somewhere.

[CheeserBeezer]

Went out on the 'Season opener' with my mates from the Cheshire Branch of the BSAOC. My bike currently has a temporary petrol tank due to the original springing a leak which I'm finding difficult to fix.

[Sav]

Started my first day's run for many months due to illness and injury. Thought I had prepped the A7SS well enough but got half a mile up the road and stopped with a blocked jet. Flooded and got home with my tail between my legs and cleaned the rather grubby carb.

I suppose it's this modern ethanol fuel crap. that can block a jet after standing quite a while despite filters.

[Greybeard]

Have to get used to the gear lever on the right as ive only ever ridded japanese bikes upto now...Should be interesting...

After two years of only riding my modern BSA I still find my right foot trying to change gear and my left foot trying to brake. 🤪

[berger]

in the seventies i used to jump off the beeza onto the kwacker and have no problem with this gear thing, nowadays i jump off the yonda and onto the beeza and still have no problem, but then again i'm crap at everything else except drinking black&tans ,, thankyou for listening have a nice day

[jhg1958]

I have no problem jumping from the Honda to the Triumph but the upside down shift on the Beeza does my head in.

Today I bit the bullet in the warm weather and lined the G’flash tank with POR 15. If it all works out I will put a post up.

John

[Greybeard]

Great weather today. After doing some of the jobs that require my attention at home I've come out for ride.

While turning the bike around on a gravelly road my foot slipped away and I managed to drop the bike.....again! I think the modern Gold Star is probably too tall and heavy for me. A 350cc BSA is imminent. If it has a lower seat I might have to change to that.  It looks like the 350 BSA may be named Bantam. I hope not.

I've come to a cafe to cheer myself up with coffee and a chocolate chip cookie 😟

[berger]

GB you need a black&tan 

[RichardL]

GB,

I wouldn’t want to see you let two, probably, unrelated incidents change your whole perception of riding enjoyment. I think it’s just two things you’ve now learned to avoid and maybe the last related to the size or shape of the bike. This said, don’t take my advice if you think you’re going to do yourself harm.

Richard L.

[Worty]

GB you need a black&tan 

That was the problem.........

[Greybeard]

GB you need a black&tan 

That was the problem.........

Yes, lack of black & Tans 😜

[groily]

Sorry to hear of your mishap GB - but it happens to the best of us!
Here's a tale that might make you feel better maybe  . . .
It was about the summer of 1975 that a group of us went over on our motley selection of bikes to the Shuttleworth Collection for one of their vintage flying days. As we approached the entrance, we caught up with a police rider on his Trihard Saint whom we knew because he used to come along to our local club to talk about Road Safety, advanced riding techniques and all that good stuff. We proceeded to the parking area, with him leading and us not being hooligans. You know what's coming  . . .
He circled on a patch of gravel  . . . and yup, he dropped it, in full view of the world and its wife. Maybe he'd got polish on the soles of his police boots!
He took it well for he was a very decent and well-liked bloke, but 'talk about embarrassed'!