Women and Motorcycles

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[Fatfatboy]

Thanks for more education men.

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[Fatfatboy]

Same lady and bike 71 years apart.

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Fatfatboy wrote

Same lady and bike 71 years apart.

That picture reminds me of a time long ago when a couple of buddies of mine had a 1950 125cc BSA Bantam D1 for a "winter bike".

The UK winters were so harsh, and the salt on the roads so prevalent, that many riders tried to have a secondary "winter"  bike to avoid the devastation a winter could meter out on their precious main ride. Plus the way we rode most main rides needed a minor or complete overhaul each winter to be fettled ready for the upcoming Spring, Summer and Fall period so a rudimentary winter ride was a desirable item.

We were all pretty strapped for cash all of the time, it took most of our meager apprenticeship wages just to keep the main ride in perfect condition and so the purchase of a second winter ride was often hard to afford, if possible at all, and so it had to be of cheap, rudimentary, essential form.

Anyway, a couple of buddies, who were brothers, and each had 500 Velocette Venoms as their main rides, managed to buy a 1950 125cc BSA Bantam model D1 between them as a winter bike to get around on while their main bikes were being worked on.  

Now a 1950 BSA Bantam D1 had an advertised power output of 4.5bhp when new, and a top speed of 45mph max. 20 years hence, and who knows how many tens of thousands of miles later, I'm sure it was probably down to 3.5bhp at best and would struggle to hit 40mph with a good tail wind. The elder of the brothers was around 6ft and 180lbs, and the younger around 5ft 9in and around 155lbs, and one fine day, or should I say one cold and very windy and blustery winter day, they both jumped on this Bantam and rode into town to meet with the usual group of us other guys.

They only lived about 8 miles out of town, but the journey took them close to an hour. The head-wind they encountered, and the overweight load on the poor little Bantam meant that with the throttle absolutely wide open and pinned to the stop the fastest they could go was a little under 10mph. They said that with some sudden strong gusts the speed would go as low as 6mph! In a desperate effort to maintain forward motion they both resorted to a racing position with the driver flat on the tank and the passenger flat against his brother's back…..what a sight that would have been!  They both swore they could have jumped off and run faster.  At their telling of the experience we all laughed until we couldn't laugh anymore, and there was lots of speculation as to how fast they would experience on the way home with the tailwind they would experience going in the other direction!



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[Fatfatboy]

Great story.
The movie Dumb and Dumber comes to mind.

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