http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEwe9IdX02c&NR=1 Bones is still addicted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeMx3-vNUlw&feature=related Triple concussions I remember it well. This track is fast/technical and made for a bike if not for cars. That S combo where he bobbles is get it right all the way like a string through a needle's, Eye Like It! < Chevy Chase with all that coke around his face [Remember that movie?]

Cool race vid.

I was just a pup but I remember the movie. My GF's parents didn't seem to appreciate the humor, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOV5wtTgFB0

WOT do parents know. They assume you are going to die and here we are. Why do you think I ignore so many people thinking I should do it their way. I do things my way. It is what it is. So, for me to hear that triple, I have a patch of skin lost from my shoulder catching a ride on one. More it was the frame design that did me in.

Beats me who set that rake and trail up on some strange frame, but when you pitched into a turn, the front end would not follow that arc over and the front wheel would cave in. I was at the fastest part of the track and when I thought where was that section I lost the front end UU---------D < I'm Fucked! I lost the front end just like that, at that moment I entered that train of thought.

I was knocked unconscious, saw yellow pumping in my eyes when I woke up. Every physical thing I looked at had turned piss yellow. You bruise yellow before it turns black and blue is head trauma in action. That Trip was a lot of fun. Guess which one!

Then I see "Bones" in a video. I met him once. It was more the The 3 BSA bikes you see that caught my attention. I had the first one on par with the one you see. Check those GP10 carbs. It has a remote float in the middle. I had the one bike as garage queen. I still have the Hornet. I sold the GP carb bike for 9K. I keep thinking about hunterfisher holding onto his sitters. First bike you see in the video is a 1966 BSA A-65 MKII (650cc)
This was a promotional pre-production bike that Mike Hailwood used when BSA at the time had Hailwood run this in a TT race and won. This was now a production racer for 1966. That was the reason for the GP carbs. You could tape up the headlights and have the bike on the track as you can now with a 1000. This was the pre-CB750 Honda/Pre-Z1 days where if you were to use a bike for competition, this was it.

I have this bike now as one of my garage queens. It is more a replica where the MKII was matching numbers. The Hornet has all the correct hardware from the original Hornet. I restored it as if you picked a part out the parts bin; there is a lot of new OEM on the bike. But the bike being a basket case, blew up the engine case when the trans went. So, I more or less ignored the matching numbers game and made a replica 1966 BSA A-65 Hornet that shifted better and runs better than the MKII I sold. I dried this one after the road test and parked it after I made sure I did not need to pull the engine out and start all over.
At the time of the restoration, I had a guy named, "Jack Hately" bore the cylinders, install new guides, valves, cut the seats and all that is brand new. She has (cold); 175psi on each cylinder. If they show old ASCOT races, you might see Jack or his son in the hunt with Bones. Yep, Life goes faster than an Ascot lap time.

* Last updated by: Hub on 4/5/2009 @ 9:28 AM *

First bike you see in the video is a 1966

Damn, Hub. That's the year I was born. Lot's of mischief getting started around '66, I guess. I saw one of those (or a very similar model) last summer at a bike gathering. I talked to the owner. His bike didn't look to be in nearly as good of condition as yours. I don't think it had the emblem on the tank. It probabley had been painted.

You always have to give a vehicle on the road props for being old and in good condition. Twenty years is notable but 40 is amazing.

* Last updated by: Rook on 4/5/2009 @ 10:04 AM *

I'd suck and bob on a king's twig and berries for this bike. Gotta love that 1/4 throttle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uq6m7ZsljU&fmt=18

Here is my personal bike. I just picked out two of the models I restored. I sold that GP10 carb so I could by the 14. I have this Hornet and the H-D. This bike has new parts (inside and out). I had Jack do the machine work. Had him install new guides and cut the seats. 175PSI cold in each cylinder. I was impressed. It runs sweet and shifts smooth. It needs cad plating and minor clutch parts to really hammer the thing like the old days.

I still saved the same magazine when this thing came out. The dirt behind this thing coming off a jump. The cases were huge and the pipes just made it so, "I want one!" I threw money at it and it looks showroom almost. It's that close it is now a garage queen with the H-D. Froze inn time.