Trail riding with a 1940's bike today

[Timolgra]

Couldn't have been out with more diverse bikes today.

My super duper 690, an '82 XT250 on it's first outing since coming back from Oz a few years ago, my mate's old XT350 and this 1948 beauty

The team

I'd love to have this as my trials bike

Refuelling the Ajay

 

[Smug]

That is a big sidestand on the AJS. Where does it stow?

 

[Timolgra]

It's homemade and a bungy holds to the mudguard ...... It came undone in the forest which caused a slight issue

 

[(RIP) andrewgsadv]

Good to see some of the older bikes out Tim, that AJS is grand. The XTs look good too, had several 350 over the years.

 

[UturnTony]

that stirred memories. i had a 1963 AJS 16C trials bike for around 25 years and rode it in the pre '65 trials.

had some great times on that bike. it never had an engine build in all that time and the only thing it needed was a mag. rebuild done by Dave Lindsley. i had all the electrical system for it with the QD headlamp. i made a high level exhaust system for it and a central oil tank which made the bike look really cool (i thought). i retained the VRN off it and it is on my van now and have owned it for 41 years

me and my mate who had a BSA B31 trials bike used to take the bikes to derbyshire and do the green lanes. these trips out did use to involve a few pints along the way. very different times they were.

strangely, i only have a couple of pictures of the bike, one of which was taken of me in a section at Pott Shrigley in Cheshire and was taken by a Macclesfield Evening News photographer and it got into the paper. the copy i have (about 8"x4") was supplied to me by the MEN.

the bike is now in Australia as i sold it to a guy that badgered the life out of me to sell it to him which i eventually did, and he
emigrated taking his bikes with him.

thank's for posting that