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Bill Walker
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Who can remember the BSA Bantam, a 125 cc two stroke first sold around 1950. A man called Walsh rebuilt one where the cylinder was broken into pieces. He welded the cylinder back together, rebuilt the motor and found it was much faster than the standard bike. It was then raced, ridden by Kenny Rumble and it could beat bikes in the 250 and often the 350 class. BSA in England offered Walsh big money for his secret but he refused.
With it being a single cylinder 2 stroke, I can't imagine he did anything ground breaking, probably just tightened all the tolerances up, maybe over bored it, increased compression, bigger carb, better pipe etc. There's only so much you can do to an engine like this, especially if you don't want it blowing up every 200 miles.
the blue panther
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I've got an interesting new book out on Amazon - Parallax 9/11- Part 1: The Silent Assassin.
It's not just a new 'take' on 9/11: it has many Mancunian connections, a love story, a legend and a legal tale all rolled together, which I'm sure you'll find interesting.
Published on Amazon last month - hopefully some of you will support a fellow blue and download on Kindle, or get a soft-back or hard-back copy.
It's not just a new 'take' on 9/11: it has many Mancunian connections, a love story, a legend and a legal tale all rolled together, which I'm sure you'll find interesting.
Published on Amazon last month - hopefully some of you will support a fellow blue and download on Kindle, or get a soft-back or hard-back copy.
Lavinda Past
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Pru Leif of bake off fame is 85 , she was on tv this morning and said she was reaching the end and has started packing in new experiences . I thought she was early seventies
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An awful lot of wing nuts on here
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Lavinda Past
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The Robin Friday story...
They don't make 'em like Robin any more.
At 16 he was caught by the police stealing a car radio and ended up in a reformatory: here he strengthened his physique and showed all his football talent in the prison team. After serving his sentence, he found his first contract as a footballer.
The period in his new club lasted a short time, just enough time to show off his entire repertoire on and off the pitch: he had enormous talent combined with a character that led him to be a womanizer, alcoholic and drug addict.
Reading bought him for 750 pounds. His debut in the championship was, according to the local press, "amazing". From here began an incredible crescendo: in a very short time he became the idol of the fans.
Everything seemed to be going well and yet his demons did not abandon him. In the third season he decided to literally drag the club to promotion to the third division thanks to his 20 goals.
Despite being the idol of the fans he was sold to Cardiff City.
On his debut, the opponent is Fulham, led in defense by former England pillar Bobby Moore.
Robin ridicules him, scoring two goals and "paying homage" to him with a squeeze to the testicles.
During the summer he falls ill with a mysterious virus that makes him lose over ten kilos. When he returns, the opponent is Brighton and his marker is stopper Mark Lawrenson, who does not spare rude tackles. This makes Friday so nervous that at the first opportunity he kicks Lawrenson in the face. He is obviously sent off, but instead of going to his own dressing room he goes to the opponents', looks for and finds Lawrenson's bag and defecates in it. Enough is enough; Andrews, the coach, removes him from the team. Friday, seeing himself excluded, at the end of the year announces his sensational retirement, at just 25 years old.
He ends up living in a council house in Acton, a stay that he alternates with a stay in prison.
On December 22, 1990, he was found dead in his London apartment due to cardiac arrest from an overdose at just 38 years old
They don't make 'em like Robin any more.
At 16 he was caught by the police stealing a car radio and ended up in a reformatory: here he strengthened his physique and showed all his football talent in the prison team. After serving his sentence, he found his first contract as a footballer.
The period in his new club lasted a short time, just enough time to show off his entire repertoire on and off the pitch: he had enormous talent combined with a character that led him to be a womanizer, alcoholic and drug addict.
Reading bought him for 750 pounds. His debut in the championship was, according to the local press, "amazing". From here began an incredible crescendo: in a very short time he became the idol of the fans.
Everything seemed to be going well and yet his demons did not abandon him. In the third season he decided to literally drag the club to promotion to the third division thanks to his 20 goals.
Despite being the idol of the fans he was sold to Cardiff City.
On his debut, the opponent is Fulham, led in defense by former England pillar Bobby Moore.
Robin ridicules him, scoring two goals and "paying homage" to him with a squeeze to the testicles.
During the summer he falls ill with a mysterious virus that makes him lose over ten kilos. When he returns, the opponent is Brighton and his marker is stopper Mark Lawrenson, who does not spare rude tackles. This makes Friday so nervous that at the first opportunity he kicks Lawrenson in the face. He is obviously sent off, but instead of going to his own dressing room he goes to the opponents', looks for and finds Lawrenson's bag and defecates in it. Enough is enough; Andrews, the coach, removes him from the team. Friday, seeing himself excluded, at the end of the year announces his sensational retirement, at just 25 years old.
He ends up living in a council house in Acton, a stay that he alternates with a stay in prison.
On December 22, 1990, he was found dead in his London apartment due to cardiac arrest from an overdose at just 38 years old