‘You always really enjoy riding Beezer A1 Os. How come you always buy A65s instead?’
I’d just landed from yet another entirely enjoyable blast aboard an elderly Flash, was pondering upon calling this story’Old Geezer; Old Beezer’when the Better Third accosted me with what is plainly an unfair question. Unfair? Yes, of course it is. I’ve not owned an A10 (or indeed an A7) in all of our thirty years together, but have parked a fair few A65 twins in The (various) Sheds in that time. But it’s true, I really do enjoy riding BSA’s pre-unit twins.
But I needed to reply, and quickly too, lest she become restive. This always alarms the cats.‘Alternator, anchors and fewer lube leaks,’I explained, while struggling out of my wet weather gear (it was January - remember the gales and floods?).‘Any chance of a glass of something strong and restorative?’
A coffee was the result. Instant, too. Life can
