Roy's
Bikes
I ride
motorcycles for fun and as a means of transport.
At
present I ride a BMW K75c.
But
I've had many bikes,
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BMW R12,
1942 Ex German Army, Norway (centre front row)
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BMW R50
Ex-French Police
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Three BSA WM20's - WW2 depatch
riders bikes
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BSA 1927
Flat tank
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Harley
Davidson 1943 WLA 45cu in. in military trim that I built from the ground
up. 3 gears, foot and hand clutch, Thompson machine-gun scabbard on the
front forks. (back row left)
-
1941 Indian
500cc, built from a box of bits, military green again!
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Moto Guzzi
T3 California, best bike to ride I've had.
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Kerry
Capitano mini trucks, two of them.
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Hondas
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Yamahas
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Several
Garelli mopeds
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Royal
Enfield Crusader Sports 250cc
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And I
have a Reliant Rialto to carry tools and stuff to and from car boot sales!
(Notice the bird's nest taken out of the tank!)
Then after 6 months of hard work!
This is how it looked
after restoration. I did all the mechanics and Peter did the paintwork.
We bought all Pete Gray's stock of original H-D spares and that made restoration
a doddle.
Note the siren driven
off the rear wheel.
Nice comfortable
bike to ride but foot clutch and hand gearchange took some getting used
to!
The film job.
This photo was taken on the Lincolnshire
film set of "The Last Days of Patton" starring George C.
Scott, in June 1985. We are General Patton's Military Police personal security
squad.I'm the lean/mean one on the right of the picture with my Harley-Davidson
WLA. We got the job through Tony Oliver who is TLO Film Services
I hadn't fitted the Thompson Machine gun
scabbard or the ammo box to the forks and the pannier bags are not correct
either, the uniform was supplied by Morris Angel. That's my mate Peter
on his WLA to my right and Pete Gray's bike ridden by Dick, is the one
on the far left. It was an interesting experience and the pay was very
good. My hair was too long they gave me £25 to cut my hair!
Is this the biggest
(and daftest) bike ever?
The picture
is from a 1971 bike mag.
"Clad from head
to toe in leather, Wild Bill Gelbke from Boscobel, USA, on his home-built
bike with four cylinder Chevrolet engine. Disc brakes and parked with jacks"
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