The new scrambler makes 45 hp from 900 ccs and weighs 100 pounds more than the '60's version.
I used to race a 1965 Bonneville TT special and I was gettin more than 45 bhp.
That is pathetic.
Yeah and we had real full fat 5 star gasoline and bikes didnt have catalitic converters and the weight of them.
They didnt have fuel injection and emmissions control systems. They had shite brakes and suspension,
they had narrow hard rubber tyres that lost traction easily, they broke down all the time, the spewed oil
all over your boots each time you went out, bits fell off and parts broke with the engine vibration, the Lucas
electrics went wrong often, the bulbs used to blow, they wouldnt start, you ahd to carry a tool kit and spares
and know how to fit them roadside, they stopped working in the rain, they rusted, you had to modify them
to make them work properly, they spat the exhaust headers out.....
Price of progress?
It wouldnt stop me having some real British iron all the same
you know me and British bikes!!
