Talking older british bikes I went through a stage of buying and using British bikes - but soon went back to the Germans and Italian stuff.

This was my Royal Enfield 700 super meteor - two 350 barrels on a common crank a nice twin long stroke engine it was very well built and fairly quick really the only problem of note was a dragging clutch in hot weather when in heavy traffic but it made a very good everyday bike - I tried fitting the motor into a Norton Featherbed frame but it was way too tall so it ended up just being used as a get to work bike. I ended up selling it to a mate at work.

The next is my triumph t140 - just terrible i could never feel love the thing it was just not for me - I can still look at triumphs and think yep i would like that but the reality does not work for me. Funny enough i was torn between a triumph t140 and a BMW r65 when I was starting out on bikes - i bought the r65 which took me to North Africa and back without a single issue so pretty glad i never got the trumpet. The t140 made a hundred mile journey into an epic adventure and was always something to talk about afterwards.

The last one was my Indian Enfield that i built up into a scrambler, actually quite nice but very basic and so slow it was hard to live with in modern traffic but on a back country road it did put a smile on your face. It was physically to small and backbreaking on the ride quality - again a 100 mile trip felt like 500 mile - i take my hat off to people doing trips on these things.






I think Black seems to be a bit of a theme when buying British (or Indian being British)
Jake.