Cheated on the A10 again

[Macbeth]

It was homeless - lost its owner. What was i supposed to do but give her a good home. 1 owner, low klm & everything original

[CheeserBeezer]

I used to have one of those, slightly earlier, and blue. Fantastic bike. Go anywhere, utterly reliable..... rather like the A10  !!

[Macbeth]

I used to have one of those, slightly earlier, and blue. Fantastic bike. Go anywhere, utterly reliable..... rather like the A10  !!

They are the jewel in the crown of 70’s BMs. I had a seibenrock kitted 90/6 & have an R60/2 I’m fitting a chair to atm but this was one of those phone calls you get ..”you’ve got 3 mins - do you want it or will I ring the next bloke”  type of deal.

[scotty]

As a fellow Airhead and past owner of a R90S I’m jealous

[muskrat]

G'day Mac.
Nice pickup mate. A friend has two, an orange and a green.
Cheers

[Worty]

I'd have done exactly the same Mac.  I had a '59 R60 and loved it (wished I knew then what I know now about adjusting valves though).  Super reliable, lovely sound, would buy it back if I could find who had it now.

[Macbeth]

Yeah a lot of older bikes hitting the market atm so find a nice one & watch it. Many are still for sale a months later.

Here’s my /2 yesterday. Thought it better for a freshen up before the Steib goes on. It had a wrist pin tick that was annoying & as we all know once you open you see the next part & then the next part & then …

[Macbeth]

Steib is painted (pain in the you know what reassembling those strips !) Terrible way they are held on x 150 times  Still it obviously has worked for decades

 Just all needs to be put together now. Rather drawn out process if you don’t pick one up already done but this way you know it’s all good as Steibs are just a tin bath tub & known for rust. I’d say that is predominantly from bikes used on salted ice roads though & that’s not an issue here

I can’t for the life of me work out how how to refit the inside liners though as the wood can’t bend far enough to get the top & bottom in. May need an auto trimmer to shorten them & re stretch the trim

[Joolstacho]

BITD I found my R75/5 very functional but quite characterless.
mind you I'd have it back!

[Worty]

BITD I found my R75/5 very functional but quite characterless.
mind you I'd have it back!

I agree with the 'characterless' comment.  My R60 was lovely, but didn't spit, bitch and bite like the A10.  The Kwaka is much the same as the BMW, a bit characterless but a superb machine nontheless.  I tend to be very loyal to my machines, and not use them for a bit then get rid.  For me, they then develop a bit of 'character'.  Knowing that the A10 came from an old geezer's garage after 10 years of storage, the BMW was from an old lady's chicken shed, and the Kwaka ceased production in around 2006 sort of adds to the sentiments.

[groily]

The only air-head I had was not short of character, I have to say! An R100 RS with 4 valve Krauser heads, absurd compression ratio, hard-to-get sparking plugs, a capacity to eat clutches for breakfast, plus subsequently spitting most of a lobe off the camshaft, it was at least as much 'fun' as any Brit bike for the 50K miles I kept it! Not to mention that darn detent spring in the 'box. But when she went, she WENT, extremely fast for a twin of its day.
However, a K100 RS fulfilled the need for incident-free reliable and less-exciting wheels for my then-daily commute of 80+ miles  . . .