Arguably the motorcycle competition world would be considerably poorer were it not for the input of the military and it’s no coincidence the major off-road events such as the ISDT and SSDT had teams of military riders in them as these competitions were seen as good training. Nor did it hurt the manufacturers to have a ready and valuable market to produce motorcycles for. The downside of this is not every military rider issued with a motorcycle was sympathetic to the machine’s needs… Which is why reader Erik Boelen in the Netherlands begins the tale of his 1965 BSA B40 like this…
“About five years ago I bought what I assumed was a WD BSA B40, the assumption
