Norvin Harley were very good…my Fatboyh had very loud custom pipes, largely unappreciated by the Surrey Police… The Harley Place just past Box Hill said they would fit a new standard exhaust (no charge for parts or Labour), if I let them keep the custom ones. I of course agreed,
They guy said how you getting back, I said I will call my wife….he said take the Buell, you can have it for the weekend if you want….so I did. Completely different attitude..
hubcap I started in the Mod era on a Lammy LD150, on and off it like a tarts underwear and moved to Triumph cub, and a Thunderbird. when the Japanese stuff came out I switched to them and became a firm 2 stroke fan, I owned most of the Suzuki range and had the Kettle 750 whilst I lived in Aussie, came back home in the 80’s and went Honda crazy
That’s a nice set of motorcycles there…the 2 stroke kettle was a funny bike. I’d tried a KH500 triple and a KH750 triple…and a mate said, do you want to try my Suzuki 2 stroke liquid cooled. I thought wowsers this is going to be good (being a Suzuiki, you expect a lot). I got on, engine didn’t sound like the usual Suzuki bag of bolts (as they did back in the day and I am expecting it to go like shit off a shovel. The H2 750 triple Kwaker used to go nuts when you got the revs up.. All I can say was the Suzuki 750 2 stroke was a remarkably “refined” motorcycle, one my dad would have loved to ride. 🤔
One of my favourites owned by a friend, and he let me try it, was the Seeley Honda 750…very nice indeed…beautiful to ride and so light on the handling (it had just the nose fairing). Chrome Molybdenum space frame, he was fond of reminding everyone.
