UK Headlights

[Dick7Access]

Col, Thank You, thank You. It is so good of you to help me plan my life. How can I ever thank you.

 

[Dick7Access]

Googling something else I found this. Pin points where I visited. Enjoyed the UK very much.
From 22 to 30 March 1962, Wasp traveled to Greenock, Scotland, thence to Plymouth. On 17 April, Captain Brewer presented Alderman A. Goldberg, Lord Mayor of Plymouth, the large picture of Mayflower II as a gift from the people of Plymouth, Massachusetts. On 5 May, Wasp arrived at Kiel, West Germany, and became the first aircraft carrier to ever visit that port. The ship made calls at Oslo, Reykjavík, and NS Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, before returning to Boston, Mass., on 16 June.

 

[Rx_]

I use to own a BSA Lighting 3 (750) motorcycle. It had Lucas Wiring.
So, I understood the reason the British drink warm beer ... refrigerators have wiring by Lucas.

Maybe the car lights had something to do with that?

 

[Dick7Access]

From 1943 to 1973 my Dad was a BSA dealership in Massachusetts. They were a good bike. I don't know anything about the wiring, but I do remember the Lucas name floating around.

When I was 5 years old my Dad built me a mini-bike out of a British paratrooper bike. Anybody remember them?

 

[Rx_]

Wow, i didn't know too many BSA Dealers.
http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-british-motorcycles/1971-bsa-rocket-3.aspx?PageId=1
The Rocket 3 (3 cylinder, oil-cooled) was hard to get parts for. The copper gasket seeped oil. The Needle Bering to the dry-single-plate clutch were tough. But, the non-starter 3 points - three coils - three very high compression cylinders made for an interesting start.
In Dallas, I knew all the stations that carried 110 octane and often carried an extra 2 gallons of it on back. This article discussed the Lucas Wiring on page 3.
Although I always drove with the lights on, over driving was easy. This was proposed as the first cycle in the US to exceed 125 MPH in showroom condition. One morning in Denton County Texas, the County Sheriff caught up to me refueling just off I-35. After a long talk, he issued me a warning for a radar clocking me exceeding 132 MPH.
He told me he just received a brand new patrol car, the first year for unleaded for patrol cars. They had him busy all shift and he couldn't wait to take it out on the highway. He was coming down the entrance ramp and saw a speeder. Was very excited to have the opportunity for a chase. His car only got up to 110, then he turned on the lights and siren and it dropped to about 95. Of course, I was looking forward, way over-driving my headlights. Might as well have had them out and using the full-moon light.
I was blowing the cobs out because a gas station ten miles away has the high-octane gas. He detained me for about an hour. He owned a new Honda 750 and was very enthusiastic about it all. He even too me to the car and showed me the radar reading.
For a while, we turned on the red lights to watch speeding semi-trucks throw on the breaks.
I had a lot of adventures on the BSA. I quit work and took off many months to ride the USA before returning to college. In all of that riding, I only came across a couple of BSA Dealers.

 

[Dick7Access]

My Dad in the 40's also had a race team. His bike was an Indian. When I came along he stopped being the driver and had a single friend drive. For a while he owen a Vincent Black Shadow.

 

[Fifty2One]

...now the conversations is becoming very very interesting... love the old bikes, they are most excellent to ride and wrench.
Here is some excellent reading http://www.modernmotorcyclemechanics.com/ if you are looking for some fireside reading (Prairie Dust, Motorcycles and a Typewriter ) or perhaps need a well written reference manual (Modern Motorcycle Mechanics).

 

[Dick7Access]

...now the conversations is becoming very very interesting... love the old bikes, they are most excellent to ride and wrench.
Here is some excellent reading http://www.modernmotorcyclemechanics.com/ if you are looking for some fireside reading (Prairie Dust, Motorcycles and a Typewriter ) or perhaps need a well written reference manual (Modern Motorcycle Mechanics).

One time when I was very young he took me to the "Indian" factory which was in Springfield, MA. The thing I remember the most is there was a man that pin striped the fenders by hand. His hands use to shake very much, but when he started to paint it stop shaking. Funny what a six year old will remember.

 

[Dick7Access]

I just received an email from AWF
Ryfjan has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - UK Headlights - in the The Watercooler forum of Access World Forums.

Here is the message that has just been posted: *************** No and no, just a nut case.
The message was the one Brian sent

When I went to the link there was noting there from Ryfjan
Anybody have any idea what is going on. It it spam that the forum wasn't able to block.

 

[Galaxiom]

The moderators rely on members to report spam and they clear out the posts as they are discovered.

I reported that one as soon as I got the message. It is often pretty obvious from the message but if you look at "Find other posts by xxx" then it becomes very clear what they are doing.. building up their post count so they can post a link.

 

[Dick7Access]

...now the conversations is becoming very very interesting... love the old bikes, they are most excellent to ride and wrench.
Here is some excellent reading http://www.modernmotorcyclemechanics.com/ if you are looking for some fireside reading (Prairie Dust, Motorcycles and a Typewriter ) or perhaps need a well written reference manual (Modern Motorcycle Mechanics).

52,
My Dad sold lot of other bikes, Have you ever hear of the AJS, I don't even know if they still make them. He also had for sale some BMW's a Powell, and a lot of Harleys that he took in trade for Triumphs. For some reason Exceller sticks in my mind. Does anybody know if Excellar was a motorcycle? He hated the HD Company as they were behind the scenes of the AMA at the time, and wanted my Dad that was a flag man to call the local Harley rider the winner even though the guy had cut through the end field

 

[Fifty2One]

Never heard of Exceller - Excelsior perhaps?

Lots of deviations happen even today at some racing events, its all about money rather then glory. You MUST pay a visit to Canada for Oxford Mills Rally or the Paris Ontario Vintage Rally one year!

 

[Rx_]

There use to be a motorcycle rally in Australia where they driver the entire coast. Read about it in the pre-internet days. Wonder if such a thing still goes on?

 

[Dick7Access]

Never heard of Exceller - Excelsior perhaps?

Lots of deviations happen even today at some racing events, its all about money rather then glory. You MUST pay a visit to Canada for Oxford Mills Rally or the Paris Ontario Vintage Rally one year!

Have been to Canada many times. My mother was born in the Three Rivers area. My Dad's race team raced in Canada. I also went there for my honeymoon. My grandfather on my Dad's side was born where the river flows backwards. I forget the name.

 

[Fifty2One]

Trois-Rivières - home of the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières since 1967 http://www.gp3r.com/. BIG racing and motorsport town all year 'round, even ice race motorbikes and cars on rivers and race snowmobiles on mud and across ponds in the summer...
The province of New Brunswick has a "Magnetic Hill" where cars seem to roll uphill when left in neutral, but the biggest tidal bore in the world is on Saint John and Petitecodiac rivers near Moncton New Brunswick, so grandfather must be from those parts.