Looks like Attercliffe in the background
Taken outside Rainbow at Attercliffe
Looks like Attercliffe in the background
Very nice Dave. I have never owned one, but search ebay for RSs at least once a month. One day...!
Let us know how you get on with it.
Nah ... only one colour scheme I'm afraid ...
.Long legged and good for 1100 miles in a day. I had an RS 1981 vintage before I got my first GS, a very close shave made me realise that for everyday transport in modern traffic better brakes were a bonus! The 'wooden' adjective is a good one, when I went from the RS to the 1150A it was like changing a park bench for a magic carpet! Mine racked up 334,000 trouble free miles and I still got £1800 for her, still on original discs, wheel bearings, clutch.... everything other than service items. I did find the fairing made manoevring in tight spots awkward and caught myself on the edge of the fairing more than once. An iconic bike though and the wind tunnel designing was a step up with Hans Muth at the helm, creating downforce and directional stability. The history of the RS is a great little book.
Taken outside Rainbow at Attercliffe
Thought it was Broad Oaks................happy days
My old RS and pal Andy's K1. The RS was another bike I should never have sold. Hey ho! Do you know where your old un is now Micky?
But then back in the early 70's I bought an Ariel Square Four, 1957 4G model (four exhaust pipes) for £25 and rode it home. Stripped it down to 'do up" but then went on to move police houses and sold it to a pal for the same £25 ... still in touch, he still has it in the same cardboard boxes
DOH ! I loved my Square Four.
The Ariel Owners' Club members would be very interested in that collection of boxes . They go for silly money these days.
Bob.
(AOMCC Member - with a '58 VH 500).
I keep offering him £100.00 for it, a helluva mark up, but he's not interested in selling. If or when he sells it I get first chance. He has a Triumph 500 Daytona with splayed twin carb head and eight leading shoe front brake. An old Triumph Vitesse car with full SAH engine conversion, triple twin choke Weber carbs etc.