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A Couple of BSA Rocket 3's
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:32 pm
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From..http://barbermuseum.org/






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Big Dawg, where is this museum? The only motor bike I ever owned was a beezer 125 - great little machine, but it almost killed me so no more bikes. Embarassed Embarassed


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Located in Leeds Alabama just off Interstate 20 in North Central Alabama. Just outside of Birmingham on the road to Atlanta. Go here for more....http://barbermuseum.org/


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Looks like a UK 69 model and a US 71 there both excellent- personally I love the 69 styling with the triple ray gun exhausts it's most definitely of its time. I think it was the BSA version that was reworked into one of the first factory custom bikes, the Triumph X75 Hurricane as designed by Craig Fetter?


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That is one I'm not familiar with.


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Not a great shot but there is one here :www.triplesonline.com/bikes/x75/


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Oh...you mean one of these!





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Cant get passed you at all -nice one and a fine example too Very Happy


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Poolhall wrote:
Cant get passed you at all -nice one and a fine example too Very Happy


This might fox him, one like it I used to own just for travelling to work (didn't want to get my Tiger 110 too dirty).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2ZyCyWGae0&feature=player_embedded#


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You mean ...one like this??



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There's a chap down my road who has a Brough Superior! He made a side car for it himself and it looks orig! A bike like his went for £1million at auction a few years go! It sits in his dining room in his house!


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Big Dawg wrote:
You mean ...one like this??



Oh well, but wait! mine had leg shields to keep the rain off......... Smile


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OMG my dad had one exactly like that, would you believe he was run over by a bus going in the opposite direction and broke nearly every bone in his body on it in 1953 Shocked Survived massive surgery and such and lived for another 50 years, in fact he even got one more bike after it- an Excelsior Talisman twin, which apparently never worked properly so he got a VW Beetle and stuck with 4 wheels after that Very Happy


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Poolhall wrote:
OMG my dad had one exactly like that, would you believe he was run over by a bus going in the opposite direction and broke nearly every bone in his body on it in 1953 Shocked Survived massive surgery and such and lived for another 50 years, in fact he even got one more bike after it- an Excelsior Talisman twin, which apparently never worked properly so he got a VW Beetle and stuck with 4 wheels after that Very Happy


Well I believe in the "butterfly effect"........... that unreliable Talisman could have been lucky in that it persuaded your dad to go 4 wheels and increased his chances of reaching old age.


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You are probably right- plus he went down to the Excelsior factory in Birmingham after 2 attempts to get it fixed [something about a 7 bearing crankshaft] and screamed abuse at them for a crappy and unreliable product- thus ensuring it would never be fixed right Very Happy


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You got me...no leg shields to be found. PH...glad your dad survived...but then we got you didn't we....LOL


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andyw wrote:
There's a chap down my road who has a Brough Superior! He made a side car for it himself and it looks orig! A bike like his went for £1million at auction a few years go! It sits in his dining room in his house!

Another Brough and an Excelsior on the way.


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Big Dawg wrote:
You got me...no leg shields to be found. PH...glad your dad survived...but then we got you didn't we....LOL


..and I think my Avon fairing is rare esp for the US:-

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/chakrata/triumph.jpg

I also had another bike with half a fairing, and going to France and Italy in the late fifties it was though a British bike was an alien spaceship, as very small crowds would gather round to look at it.


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That would be rare here.
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