A7 found in Delhi

[900triple]

Heres a photo of an A7 I stumbled across when in Delhi a couple of years ago. Ran perfectly as everyday transport around a non tourist part of the city.
Other bike is my old 1953 Star Twin, which was sold last year after I had owned it for 26 years ans rebuilt it (why?) and the bits are the very start of an A7 plunger rebuild. EEEEEKKKKK!

[Brian]

For a minute there I thought you said you sold the lovely looking Star Twin and was building a A7 out of bits but then I realised that I have obviously misunderstood what you wrote.......................................................

[900triple]

For a minute there I thought you said you sold the lovely looking Star Twin and was building a A7 out of bits but then I realised that I have obviously misunderstood what you wrote.......................................................

I know - mad isn't it! I owned the Star Twin for so long that when I rebuilt it from the ground up to concours condition I found that I did not enjoy riding it as every run would invariably lead to chips, scrapes etc no matter how minor, which I did not like...a common problem I think for some people who do a concours restoration. Hence the reason that the new A7 build will be not original - tidy and well built I plan but not original (threre are too many parts missing anyway to make a 100% concours restoration unlikely). This way I hope to have a bike that I have built and enjoy riding because some imperfections will not be an issue on a non original bike.
Hope this makes sense.

Like the ray gun silencer additions to the Delhi A7?

[LJ.]

Like the ray gun silencer additions to the Delhi A7?

We need to be clear here... Ray Gun silencers remind me of the BSA Rocket three silencers. What we have here is Rocket 'Fin' silencers! Actually no... they look too weird for my liking. But hey! its a working, riding BSA!    Cheers!

[Duncan R]

Hello,

My 54 A7 Shooting Star comes from Delhi (I was working there in the 90's for a few years) It was "restored" by Vinod Sharma. It took awhile to track a twin down as most of the old Brit stuff are singles. If you happen to visit Delhi go to the Karol Bagh district where the motor bazzar is and you can find some really interesting stuff. It's amazing how these old bikes keep running in the heat and the traffic conditions, mine never left me stranded in 3 years of use - not to say that I didn't have problems. Vinod provided an unlimted warranty in return for me bringing back hard to find spares from the odd visit to the UK, he even lent me his 500 Goldstar whilst my timingside bearing was being replaced!! I had never ridden a British bike before going to India, but you always received offers to test ride anything at the dealers and I got hooked on Brit bikes fairly quickly. The whole experiance of classic bike ownership in Delhi was a joy - all the services and spares were silly prices (for a foreigner anyway) almost everything was done same day, there is a wealth of old fashioned engineers who can fix almost anything - Happy days

Regards

Duncan