At the summer carnival in town, they have a car & bike show each year
(very small scale) with the usual array of Triumph, MG, Rover, Austins
etc. This year there was a also display of military vehicles (not
interested in those particularly) and several Ford Granadas (the granada
owners club were there) - these wrere the early 80s ones (very square).
But the main point in qriting was to dowith the bike section. There was
a beatiful '77 FS1-E (drum-braked and in red rith the block pattern on
the tank) parked next to an XS1100 - whcih I thought was a nice pairing
for display purposes. Also there were the standard fare of very nice
Triumphs, BSAs, AJS, Matchless & Velocette but also a couple of marques
that I hadn't noticed before. One was a Dot - trials bike - nice looking
machine, engine sounded very sweet - 2-stroke. The other new one to me
was Scott - I didn't really have a lot of time and I was just casually
glancing at the gleaming bikes on a hot summer's day - it was only when
the guy kicked this one into life that I really noticed it - I had
expected to hear a traditional british 4-stroke sound (I dont know how
you'd describe it but you know how, when you hear a bike coming up the
road, you just "know" whether it's an old british bike) - well this
thing was a 2-stroke as well - reminded me in appearance of the Suuki
GT750 engine - a water-cooled triple. Sounded very nice indeed and nice
to see something rare.
Finally, there was a metallic brown CB500 Four (I think that is the
correct designation) - a '76 model I think - very nice condition and
instantly made me think of TOG (as it's the same colour as the 500 twin
he used to have and was parked up next to a long way from perfect but
"genuine-looking" 400 Four in blue.
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jeremy
'02 Fazer 600 in blue
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jeremy at hireserve dot com
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