Thanks Adrian :) really appreciate you taking the time to comment. An I just wanna say a huge thanks from myself for making my dads hospital stay so enjoyable. If you wanna look at any more modern bikes my other channel is called adaptableadventurerider. :) few modern bikes like the bmw 1150gsa and adventure trips. Hope your recovery is going well :) Thanks again :)
@@savingclassicmotorcycles Hello Bob. I can assure you the pleasure was all mine. Your Dad was a great help to me and your mum so kind. Wishing Philipa speedy recovery. I home resting up now. I have asked my old friend Dave Clarke if he has ever bumped into you at a bike meeting. Dave has a deep association with the Ace cafe in London. BTW. My claim to fame is being the owner of a Zundapp motor scooter fitted with a Watsonian side car. Classic now but dreadful machine, so much so my dad burned it in the front garden of 230 London Road, Slough in about 1966. Incidentally there is a Zundapp Bella featured in the film Bridge of Spies. I will definitely keep in touch. Take care, stay safe and well. Adrian
Hello Bob. Daphne Clarke spoke with Dave ( currently in Stoke Mandeville having suffered a stroke). Dave is looking forward to visiting Saving Classic motorbikes. Are you going on the Dave Myers rally? Regards Adrian
@@adrianalder3768 hi Adrian great to hear from you :) really sorry to hear about your friends stroke, unfortunately we didn’t get the chance to been watching the Isle of Man TT though final day of racing today so been watching it online been a great set of races :) Speak soon :) Tom
Hi Michael thanks for the reply that’s who I got the John Bulls from :) I’m lucky enough with mine that she had the original Norton 1927 grips which are drastically different to any of the repop grips. I’m hoping after I’m moved I can get them re produced quite a clever design on the inside of the grip to isolate any vibration I removed them to keep them safe :)
Indeed :) she sure handles like she’s on rails even coasting haha! It’s wild infact having ridden the eras of Nortons I’ve got so far as to how good the handling was back on the 1920s certainly got the Norton handling DNA right back then. Still pinch myself that I’ve got her.
@@savingclassicmotorcycles Re the long push home, I once pushed a Lambretta from Ormskirk to St Helens over ten miles as it would have been nicked or at best stripped if I had left it, and it was pretty much my only possession of any worth so push it was my only option. To add to this the gearbox has locked up so I had to hold the clutch in at the way ! It was February and I started off with a heavy coat two sweaters and a Tee shirt by the time I got home I was stripped to the waist😀
Now that’s a push holding the clutch in all that time! Being my neck of the woods I got drenched on mine lol was down to the t shirt and roasting though, nightmare was I made it all the way home 10 miles huge hill to get to my house get right to the top of it pushing an slipped on a bit of gravel in the wet exhausted lol couldn’t have made it up ended up with 1 flat tanker on top of me an a bent footrest so that was lucky escape ^_^ it’s always those moments you never ever forget an look back on fondly I think, what’s the saying character building haha! Glad she’s only 252lbs :) doesn’t half help :)
Thoroughly enjoyed watching the video. Adrian Alder
Thanks Adrian :) really appreciate you taking the time to comment. An I just wanna say a huge thanks from myself for making my dads hospital stay so enjoyable.
If you wanna look at any more modern bikes my other channel is called adaptableadventurerider. :) few modern bikes like the bmw 1150gsa and adventure trips.
Hope your recovery is going well :)
Thanks again :)
@@savingclassicmotorcycles
Hello Bob.
I can assure you the pleasure was all mine. Your Dad was a great help to me and your mum so kind. Wishing Philipa speedy recovery. I home resting up now. I have asked my old friend Dave Clarke if he has ever bumped into you at a bike meeting. Dave has a deep association with the Ace cafe in London. BTW. My claim to fame is being the owner of a Zundapp motor scooter fitted with a Watsonian side car. Classic now but dreadful machine, so much so my dad burned it in the front garden of 230 London Road, Slough in about 1966. Incidentally there is a Zundapp Bella featured in the film Bridge of Spies. I will definitely keep in touch. Take care, stay safe and well.
Adrian
Hello Bob. Daphne Clarke spoke with Dave ( currently in Stoke Mandeville having suffered a stroke). Dave is looking forward to visiting Saving Classic motorbikes. Are you going on the Dave Myers rally?
Regards Adrian
@@adrianalder3768 hi Adrian great to hear from you :) really sorry to hear about your friends stroke, unfortunately we didn’t get the chance to been watching the Isle of Man TT though final day of racing today so been watching it online been a great set of races :)
Speak soon :)
Tom
Have you tried Jeff Holt rubber products for the grips? I use him for most of the John Bull replica products
Hi Michael thanks for the reply that’s who I got the John Bulls from :) I’m lucky enough with mine that she had the original Norton 1927 grips which are drastically different to any of the repop grips. I’m hoping after I’m moved I can get them re produced quite a clever design on the inside of the grip to isolate any vibration I removed them to keep them safe :)
That bike is impressivly rattle and worrying noises free, nothing like a long coast to hear stuff going on
Indeed :) she sure handles like she’s on rails even coasting haha! It’s wild infact having ridden the eras of Nortons I’ve got so far as to how good the handling was back on the 1920s certainly got the Norton handling DNA right back then. Still pinch myself that I’ve got her.
@@savingclassicmotorcycles Re the long push home, I once pushed a Lambretta from Ormskirk to St Helens over ten miles as it would have been nicked or at best stripped if I had left it, and it was pretty much my only possession of any worth so push it was my only option. To add to this the gearbox has locked up so I had to hold the clutch in at the way ! It was February and I started off with a heavy coat two sweaters and a Tee shirt by the time I got home I was stripped to the waist😀
Now that’s a push holding the clutch in all that time! Being my neck of the woods I got drenched on mine lol was down to the t shirt and roasting though, nightmare was I made it all the way home 10 miles huge hill to get to my house get right to the top of it pushing an slipped on a bit of gravel in the wet exhausted lol couldn’t have made it up ended up with 1 flat tanker on top of me an a bent footrest so that was lucky escape ^_^ it’s always those moments you never ever forget an look back on fondly I think, what’s the saying character building haha! Glad she’s only 252lbs :) doesn’t half help :)