The aftermath of the incident
As the least damaged of the two bikes in the incident, Robin Watson’s 1953 500cc BSA A7 twin needed the least amount of work on the face of it but there were a few things which, while not urgent, were just begging for an excuse to be looked at. A lot of these detail issues have been addressed in the previous parts of this rebuild and it has got to the stage now where the A7 is just about back to full working order. It’s actually so close the only thing left to do is refit the front mudguard, which happened a few days before I popped along. It will be obvious from the picture of the forks the front guard isn’t on, so what happened Robin?
“I’d got everything lined up, stays on bolts in place and
