show me the way to go home...
Thank you for showing the VELOCETTE LE, wontolla! It made me curious, and I read about its history on the net.
The MARS was mentioned there as an early version of the practical motorcycle concept:
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water cooled??
No, the Mars A 20 shown was air-cooled. But it must have been reliable and was a successful racing bike (then):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars-Werke
yes. the kreidlers were water cooled...iirc...1963 TT
If you think that's overloaded, have a look HERE!!!
Any similarity to a Bantam is down to the design being part of reparations in the mid '40s. Brakes are probably better on the German option!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_Bantam Tells the tale better than I can!
just gone through this thread hadn't seen it before
one of mine from the mid 80's
had a lot of fun during the 80's on bikes but sadly have very few photographs of them
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Did you know that Suzuki have done a new version of the Kat? There's also someone from Back Street Heroes who is doing a supercharged one with a lot of other mods which will be interesting to see! Hopefully Simon Everett will get to shoot some pix of the end result and can share them here.
iv'e not been following the progress of bikes for some years now i think the reason is i would start yearning for one but the wife would divorce me
Double freedom!!! (Only joking, although the freedom of 2 wheels is intoxicating, even now.)