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[kev]

I almost forgot, the Rokon.😎

https://www.rokon.com/

[w3526602]

The bike I might choose to circumnavigate the globe would probably be a Honda C50 - millions sold all over the world

Hi Tim,

While I was at RAAF Butterworth in Malaya, the Honda 50 was the transport of choice of the UK, Oz, and KIWI forces. Out of a military population (not counting family) of 2000, I think 20 were killed while riding their bikes, in thetwo years we were there. My Sergeant (a UK Ministry approved driving test examiner) declared that this was due to them being too big for bikes intended for lightweight Asians. I wonder if the biker who died in a monsoon ditch, under his bike, had time to ponder on the subject?

I watched a UK, or OZ, couple on a Honda 50 ride OVER a goat (who was crossing the road) ... and keep going. Our instructions were, if involved in an RTA, especially if someone was injured/killed, to keep going and report to the next police station. I decided it best if we kept going, too. I doubt that a dead goat would be wasted.
 
During the monsoons, the locals wore improvised wet weather gear ... large polythene bags with holes cut for head and arms. Barbara and myself had to ride home from the ferry, during a monsoon ... horizontal stair-rods. The bike's ignition was faltering due to the wet.
which still holds the record for a 500 single of averaging 100mph for 24 hours - probably something no Land Rover has ever achieved 

Hi, Way back in the 1950s, somebody claimed to have ridden from Purley traffic lights to Thornton Heath Pond (7 miles) without dropping below 100mph.

OT, My mate Stephan, a Hungarian refugee, but by then a (drunken) bus conductor, decided that his bus driver taking a leak at the conveniences at Thornton Heath Pond, was a good opportunity to drive a bus. He, and a bus load of passengers, crashed into a house in Purley. I read about it in the papers, while I was in hospital. I learned later, that Stephan got six months hard labour, working on the sea wall, following the East Anglian floods. He claimed it was the best six months of his life.

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[Alan Drover]

Café racers.

[nathanglasgow]

As mentioned before it's a B31 for me. It drops as much oil as my S2a's so totally period correct

[whitehillbilly64]

Mine, but not a 4st, shortly going back to Road rego on Historic Plates...
And for the Trifecta........But a year older than My  80Inch.

whitehillbilly

[gatekrash]

Mrs G runs a 1961 Triumph 3TA.  When we bought it about 12 years ago, the guy selling it was very keen to warn me that it needed AF and Whitworth spanners and that I'd need to be able to do some work on it myself.

I turned up in the S2 to pick it up on a trailer. I think at that point he realised I'd probably have the necessary tools, and that i'd be used to oily drips and dodgy electrics !

[jonhutchings]

Mine, but not a 4st, shortly going back to Road rego on Historic Plates...
And for the Trifecta........But a year older than My  80Inch.

whitehillbilly

Now that's a proper bike, built just down the road from where I grew up in Essex, UK. My best mates Dad has one just the same. Never saw it run sadly, but was proud that my home county had made such a cool machine (I was twelve at the time !)

[PetrolFour]

Now that's a proper bike, built just down the road from where I grew up in Essex, UK. My best mates Dad has one just the same. Never saw it run sadly, but was proud that my home county had made such a cool machine (I was twelve at the time !)

Agreed. Not sure how the rest fit?  If there's one m/cycle equiv. to an LR it's that Greeves.

Off-road; Right era; British; Basic;

Job done.

[Alan Drover]

DOT (Devoid Of Trouble) used to make good off road scrambler bikes too.

[GlenAnderson]

I have a BSA Bantam (actually my son and I have three between us), which is about as simple a bike as you can get, but I'm not sure it remotely qualifies for comparison with the levels of reliability I have had from my Land-Rover.

Probably a small capacity sixties Honda would be a better comparison.

[Alan Drover]

Solid rear suspension. Mine was plunger which might just as well have been solid.

[scotty]

Hi  mine was a 1959 Greeves Scottish 24 TCS 250 no 26 with all matching numbers, the first owner had it for 50 years, I unfortunately had to let it go in Sept last year, it went to a Land Rover owner , absolutely gutted to let it go but I certainly enjoyed it whilst I owned it, in my opinion it was the bike equivalent of a series 2  Paul ps I’ve tried to put a picture up but can’t seem to attach it ?

[scotty]

Hopefully it’s attached now  Paul

[scotty]

 

[TJRL]

Given that a SIIA was made from 1961 to 1972 I think an early Armstrong/CCM bike might fit the bill?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong-CCM_Motorcycles