Those were the days

[RogerSB]

Don't ring tonight - they're closed.

Brand New Rocket Gold Star £338.00.

1961 A10 & Swallow Outfit £179.

Etc., etc.

[Greybeard]

So nostalgic

[RoyC]

Too good to be true, it's a scam. Ha Ha 

[Swarfcut]

That's when I started my Drinking Career. £1 bought 8 pints of premium new fangled keg booze.  8 pints these days is around £32, so an inflation factor of 30/32 puts these prices in perspective. First job brought me £10 a week, and stuff still seemed expensive. The good old days?...at least you could find a parking space.

 Swarfy.

[RogerSB]

I wonder why these didn't 'take off' 

[Greybeard]

I wonder why these didn't 'take off' 

That was the problem; when that spinny bit got to terminal velocity the whole thing slipped off the helmet and flew away!

[edboy]

genuine exchange bsa engines. how long is the warranty?  i may be interested.

[RogerSB]

Well, for that edboy . . . you'll have to ring them up and ask.
(Pride & Clarke Ltd., Tel: Brixton 6251.
 

[RogerSB]

That was the problem; when that spinny bit got to terminal velocity the whole thing slipped off the helmet and flew away!

Ok. So, it seems the visor took off nicely - but its design and sales didn't.

[RoyC]

That was the problem; when that spinny bit got to terminal velocity the whole thing slipped off the helmet and flew away!

Ok. So, it seems the visor took off nicely - but its design and sales didn't.

I had one.
They did work as far as throwing the rain off went.
I never had mine fly off.

[Greybeard]

That was the problem; when that spinny bit got to terminal velocity the whole thing slipped off the helmet and flew away!

Ok. So, it seems the visor took off nicely - but its design and sales didn't.

I had one.
They did work as far as throwing the rain off went.
I never had mine fly off.

I wasn't necessarily being serious!

[Black Sheep]

Tried a turbo visor once. It did indeed reach a considerable rpm and fly off.

[RogerSB]

I wasn't necessarily being serious!

Nor me but whether it worked or not I can't say that it would have made you look really cool  .

[bikerbob]

Very nostalgic but in 1964 I started a new job had just finished my apprenticeship after 5years. I was a time served Sheet Metal worker and for a 44hour week I was paid £14-7shillings. If I worked a weekend which was 8 hours Saturday and 8 hours Sunday my taake home pay was still less than £20.

[RogerSB]

I had just returned to the UK after serving 2 years in Malaya including active service in Borneo with 40 Commando, Royal Marines. I bought my first BSA Golden Flash at that time and I left the Corps in 1969. My first civilian pay packet as a printer compositor was £16.17.6 a week, which was a couple of pounds less than my RM pay at the time. Overtime was readily available (well, almost compulsory) for 4 hours on a Saturday morning and 2 hours at the end of each day at time and a half.