BSA A65 Lightning was the bike my heart ached for when I was a kid. MCN posters on my bedroom wall,all BSA...spent all my money on field bikes,BSA Bantams and Tiger Cubs...must have driven my folks insane. But BSA went pop before I could save enough pennies for a shiny brand new one...I lost my way in life when that happened,and have been meandering aimlessly ever since LOL So never actually owned a Lightning ,but I have had,(and still have two),A65 Thunderbolts,very similar bikes/engines but the T'bolts are single carb vs the Lightnings had two. Currently being extra nice to the missus,Mahindra are claiming that the new BSA will be British designed and built. If that proves to be the case,and the bikes are as good as the current Triumphs,I shall be one of the very first to put my money down.
I will admit to riding the rvf in settle north yorks last Wednesday or Thursday I did about 2 mile, on the way back to my mate and my girlfriend I could feel myself welling up and when I got back ...yep I beefed a bit ha ha I was pretty choked, embarrassing or what.
It was only because your old man couldn't think of a name and he was cross about the faulty lawn mower, so when you Mum said "What shall we call him?", he said "I'm thinking of that niggley machine" - She said "That'll do".
I could tell you something mindbending about a Nigel in our family - it has most people lost when I explain it in a certain way.
There was a top secret parachute system developed -TT600.... Background: The Tethered Tandem Bundle Delivery concept is not new; in fact, it originated with a US Government Agency shortly after tandem skydiving became popular in the 1980’s. However, heretofore, the systems commonly in use have been cobbled together from skydiving equipment and have proven to be only marginally acceptable. In particular, there was a very large occurrence of canopy failures (>90% for some operators), which caused operators of these systems to search for an alternate canopy. The new canopy selected was the Butler Parachute Systems HX-500 . To date, Butler has supplied this canopy to over a dozen operating units worldwide. There have been no reported failures of this canopy when operated within its (very generous) operating limits of 500 lb gross weight at 180 KTAS. Recently, after listening closely to the wants and needs of Special Forces Operators from around the world, our designers crafted a tethered tandem bundle system that outperforms all other systems on the market. Our TT-600 SYSTEM (note the emphasis on system) is carefully designed to solve the numerous problems of previously available systems. It provides a superior solution to the needs of the Special Operations community for fast, accurate, and reliable aerial delivery. I can't say much more than that but a link is obvious to my username........What I can say is that it's nothing to do with my user name! I might have one of these....in Electric Blue...... I wonder which story is true.....!
I have used the name John Veals elsewhere, he is a character from a Sebastian Faulks novel A Week in December, a book I was reading at the time. I am nothing like him, so I thought it was a good disguise.
Played American football for 13 years, played for a team called South coast Sharks my number was 16 and I was the starting QB, also played for Crawley Raiders and Ireland, great times and use the tag on all my internet stuff. Could gone with Enduro 777, thats the number I would use if I had a choice if not allocated one when doing enduro or hare an hounds, funny how names stick, at work i'm Barry the Bastard.
According to Shakespeare, mine originates from old english and means "a bespawling bedswerving dalcop with fustilarian predications, prone to gnashgab and gowpenful-o-anything" beats me too.... (That's Eric Shakespeare, who lives at number 37, by the way)
